Hale County Sharecroppers

In 1936, documentary photographer Walker Evans travelled to Alabama to record the life of sharecroppers and the effects of the Great Depression on Americans. The Fields family, shown here, worked a farm in Hale County.

Sharecropper Bud Fields and his family at home in Hale County, Alabama, photographed by Walker Evans, 1935-36
Courtesy of the Library of Congress
Sharecropper Bud Fields and his family at home in Hale County, Alabama, photographed by Walker Evans, 1935-36