The Diversity of the Depression
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These families were evicted from their homes on the Dibble Plantation--legally and at the point of a gun--because they belonged to the Southern Tenant Farmer's Union. A judge upheld the eviction saying that the people were engaged in "a conspiracy to retain their homes." Near Parkin Arkansas, January 1936. Photo by John Vachon. Library of Congress.
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