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1930s Great Depression




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File Name
V-0016C_010
Period
1936
Format
16mm
Length
00:04:17
Pricing
Regular rate
Timecode start:
00:00:00
Timecode stop:
00:04:17
Additional copies:
2K Scan DPX files, PLS16MM-1208-1_001 16mm, 3/4 SP

Master file available for standard delivery by Producers Library Team

b&w - cotton - African-Americans in cotton fields - poor whites - Blue Jeans - denim - overalls - men sit on porch of rundown house - house crowded with women and children - child labor - cotton farmer talks to planter landlord - warehouse with cotton surplus - men stand in front of small town post office - exterior Department of Agriculture - Gardner Jackson of the AAA - Agricultural Adjustment Administration - explains that he was fired from the Department of Agriculture for siding with farmers - sharecroppers call for formation of the Southern Tenant Farmers Union - Memphis, Tennessee skyline - homeless farmers, black and white - farmers strike - farmers sing - re-enactment landlords use violence to stop strike - re-enactment pro-labor investigators are beaten by landlords - maps of US cotton farming territories - good shots of country church - Southern church - people sing hymn - woman plays organ - organist - religion - farm workers - black history - Great Depression - sharecroppers - tenant farmers - Southern United States - strikes - labor - New Deal - crops - poverty - poor people - Arkansas