Sujet

Night street meeting of cotton strikers near end of defeated strike. Kern County, California, 1939. Creator: Dorothea Lange.

Légende

Kern County, California. Night street meeting of cotton strikers near end of defeated strike. Strikers received seventy-five cents per 100 pounds; demanded one dollar. In 1910 cotton growers in Imperial County advertised for pickers in the Southwest to come to Imperial Valley to pick for one dollar per 100 pounds.

Date

1939

Crédit

Photo12/Heritage Images/Heritage Art

Notre référence

HRM22A52_072

Model release

NA

Property release

NA

Licence

Droits gérés

Format disponible

52,4Mo (1,4Mo) / 42,0cm x 31,3cm / 4960 x 3693 (300dpi)

Mots clés

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