Cotton Tenants
Three Families
Brooklyn : Melville House, [2013]
Format: Book
Description: 224 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm
On assignment for "Fortune" magazine in 1936, Agee and Evans set out to explore the plight of sharecroppers during the Great Depression. Published for the first time, Agee's original dispatch (accompanied by 25 of Evans' historic photos) is an unsparing record of three families at a desperate time.
Subjects:
Agee, James, 1909-1955 -- Travel -- Alabama.
Evans, Walker, 1903-1975 -- Travel -- Alabama.
Cotton farmers -- Alabama -- History -- 20th century.
Farm tenancy -- Alabama -- History -- 20th century.
Cotton farmers -- Alabama -- Social conditions.
Alabama -- Rural conditions.
Agee, James, 1909-1955 -- Travel -- Alabama.
Evans, Walker, 1903-1975 -- Travel -- Alabama.
Cotton farmers -- Alabama -- History -- 20th century.
Farm tenancy -- Alabama -- History -- 20th century.
Cotton farmers -- Alabama -- Social conditions.
Alabama -- Rural conditions.
ISBN:
1612192122
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