Sharecroppers’ House

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A sharecropper stands in the door of her Lowndes County home, circa 1910. In that year Black sharecroppers managed more than 106,000 farms in Georgia.

Courtesy of Georgia Archives, Vanishing Georgia, # low105.

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Sharecroppers’ House

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