Workers at Barker Cotton Mills in Mobile in October 1914. The city of Mobile was a destination for poor agricultural workers seeking work in industry following the Civil War. World War I saw poverty reduced in Alabama, but a dip in cotton prices following the war reversed some of this effect.
Cotton Mill Workers
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Courtesy of the Library of Congress; photograph by Lewis Hine
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