Cotton sharecroppers. Greene County, Georgia, 1937
Cotton sharecroppers. Greene County, Georgia, 1937 | Credit: <a href="http://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/fsa2000001358/PP/" target="blank">Dorothea Lange</a>
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The Blues: The Sound of Rural Poverty
Grades: High, Middle
Subjects: Social Studies/History
How do the Country Blues reflect the challenges of sharecropping, racial injustice, and rural poverty in early 20th-century African-American life?