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1939, Negro sharecropper, Will Cole, picking cotton. The owner is Mrs. Rigsby, a White woman. About five miles below Chapel Hill, going south on highway toward Bynum in Chatham County, North Carolina.

1939, Negro sharecropper, Will Cole, picking cotton. The owner is Mrs. Rigsby, a White woman. About five miles below Chapel Hill, going south on highway toward Bynum in Chatham County, North Carolina.

1939, Negro sharecropper, Will Cole, picking cotton. The owner is Mrs. Rigsby, a White woman. About five miles below Chapel Hill, going south on highway toward Bynum in Chatham County, North Carolina.

Photographer: Marion Post Wolcott 1910-1990

Source: FSA/Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C.

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