A Montgomery County sharecropper plows his field in this 1937 photo by Farm Securities Administration photographer Arthur Rothstein. Conditions worsened for small-scale Alabama farmers during the Great Depression, with tenancy rates among the highest in the nation, at well over 50 percent.
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