African American life in South Carolina, United States, during the mid 1930s Great Depression. Two men walk past the Fireproof Building, a municipal county records building, at 100 Meeting Street, Charleston, South Carolina. A black woman wearing a coat and children seated on a park bench. Black men and women selling cut flowers and planting sprigs along a street side. Houses at a distance and a car in front. Cars move on the road. A fence or walk way with a sign "For white only" painted on it reflecting "Jim Crow" segregation laws.
African American life in rural South Carolina, in the southern United States in the mid 1930s, during the Great Depression. Houses at a distance and a car in front. Cars move on the road. People move in front of simple frame and shack houses, in relative poverty. African American man leans down from balcony of a house. Bicycle parked in front of a house. African American man and woman talk at the entrance of a house. Black children in front of a house. Young African American boy helps cleans the exteriors of a house with a broom. Two boys wrestle at the edge of a street, on the ground. Woman carries a sack on her head. Two women run inside the house, seemingly after becoming frightened of the cameraman. Woman snatches the child back into the house. A Black child carries a bucket in his hand and another child follows. African American people gathered outside a building with cars in front. Two African American men walk in front of houses. African American life in South Carolina, United States. Houses at a distance and a car in front. Cars move on the road. People move in front of the houses. African American man leans down from balcony of a house. Bicycle parked in front of a house. African American man and woman talk at the entrance of a house. African American children in front of a house. African American child cleans the exteriors of a house with a broom. African American man lay on the ground. Woman carries a bag on her head. Woman and child run inside the house after becoming frightened of the cameraman. African American child carry bucket in his hand and another child follows. African American people gathered outside a building with cars in front. Two African American men walk in front of houses.
African American life in South Carolina, United States. Black children outside a schoolhouse. African American children play on the ground. Trees in the background. Black children gathered outside school building. Some children sit and play a game with small rocks while others watch. Close up views of African American school children. Two Black girls stand and talk. Black girls tie cloth on the head of another girl. Black children enter the school building in a line as a teacher or administraotaor stands at the entrance.
African American life in South Carolina, United States. Woman sits on a bridge with fishing net.Two African American women catch fish through fishing net. Wooden logs on ground in the background. Trees in the background.
African American life in South Carolina, United States, during the Great Depression. African American woman stand on the porch of a dilapidated house. Porch roof is partially falling in. Another woman brings chair from inside the house and stands in the porch with one leg on the chair. Close up of face of elderly African American woman. Car parked in front of house. Men on horses move in front of the house.
Agricultural practices by African American men in South Carolina, United States. View of cracked, dry farm land. African American man plows field using mule drawn plow. Houses in the background. Two men inspect the field
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