Plantation Worker – Caption censored in 1937

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Dorothea Lange captioned this photo, 'Old Negro - the kind the planters like. He hoes, picks cotton, and is full of good humor.'

Dorothea Lange captioned this photo, “Old Negro – the kind the planters like. He hoes, picks cotton, and is full of good humor.” The federal agency she worked for made the image available after removing the phrase “the kind the planters like.” Photo by Dorothea Lange, June 1937, Aldridge Plantation, Mississippi.

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