Parkin,Arkansas,AR,Evicted Sharecroppers,Dibble Plantation,Cross County,FSA
Title: Parkin (vicinity), Arkansas. The families of evicted sharecroppers of the Dibble plantation. They were legally evicted the week of January 12, 1936. The plantation having charged that by membership in the Southern Tenant Farmers' Union they were engaging in a conspiracy to retain their homes. This contention granted by the court, the eviction, though at the point of a gun, was quite legal. The pictures were taken just after the evictions before they were moved into the tent colony they later enjoyed
Creator(s): Vachon, John, 1914-1975, photographer
Date Created/Published: 1936 Jan.?
Notes:
Additional information on caption card: For caption see card no. 14008-E [i.e. LC-USF34-014008-E].
Original negative missing.
Title and other information from caption card.
Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944.
More information about the FSA/OWI Collection is available at http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.fsaowi
Subjects:
Evictions.
Families.
Sharecroppers.
United States--Arkansas--Cross County--Parkin.
Hill House--Mississippi
Film negatives.
Bookmark /fsa1998023831/PP/
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