Mississippi Plantation 1930s 1940s Marion Post Walcott-31 - from our story 'Life On Mississippi Delta Plantations By Marion Post Walcott – c.1939'

Day labor is used almost exclusively on Hopson plantation, displacing the old tenants on the place. Cotton choppers are hired in nearby towns for seventy-five cents to one dollar a day and trucked to the plantation. Clarksdale, Mississippi Delta, Mississippi Contributor Names Wolcott, Marion Post, 1910-1990, photographer Created / Published 1940 Aug.