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Teaching Mockingbird: Images

These photographs were taken by Walker Evans in the 1930s for the Farm Security Administration of the United States Government. The government established the FSA to help document the reality and effects of the Great Depression on farmers and communities in the rural South.
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Teaching Mockingbird: Images

These photographs were taken by Walker Evans in the 1930s for the Farm Security Administration of the United States Government. The government established the FSA to help document the reality and effects of the Great Depression on farmers and communities in the rural South.

A Cabin in Hale County, Alabama During the Great Depression

A cabin where an African American family lived, in Hale County, Alabama during the Great Depression.

Credit:
Walker Evans/Library of Congress

Floyd Burroughs and his Children, 1936

Floyd Burroughs and his family were among those that photographer Walker Evans and writer James Agee visited while creating a feature for Fortune magazine on tenant farmers in the South during the Great Depression. Burroughs' family grew cotton, seventeen miles north of Greensbsoro, Alabama.

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Walker Evans/Library of Congress

Flood Refugees in Line for Food

During the Great Depression, African Americans line up for food at meal time in the camp for flood refugees. Forrest City, Arkansas.

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Library of Congress

A Street in Marion, Alabama

This is a view of a Southern U.S. street in the mid-1930s, Alabama.

Credit:
Walker Evans/Library of Congress

A General Store Interior in Moundville, Alabama

This photo of the interior of an Alabama general store was taken in the summer of 1936.

Credit:
Walker Evans/Library of Congress

Bud Fields and Family

Sharecropper Bud Fields and his family at their home in Hale County, Alabama, in the mid-1930s.

Credit:
Walker Evans/Library of Congress

Children in Line for Food

Children receive food in an Alabama camp for flood refugees, 1937.

Credit:
Walker Evans/Library of Congress

African American man Farming in Mississippi, 1936

Near Tupelo, Mississippi, an African American man farms in a field, 1936.

Credit:
Walker Evans/Library of Congress

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