Jack Delano

 Rainy day on the main street of Roxboro, North Carolina, May 1940

  

 Spectators at soapbox auto race during July 4th 

celebration at Salisbury, Maryland, 1940

  

 The "gossip corner" in Stem, North Carolina, May 1940

[these ladies are scary]

  

 The "super market" in Durham, North Carolina, May 1940

  

 The CCC (Civilian Conservation Corps) helped move some of the families 

out of the area being taken over by the army in Caroline County, Virginia, June 1941

  

 Waiting at a crossroads in Ledyard, Connecticut 

for the mail carrier, November 1940

  

Window shoppers watching toy display in 

downtown Providence, Rhode Island, December 1940

Jack Delano

 A hamburger shop in Durham, North Carolina, May 1940

  

 Coming home from school on a rainy day in Norwich, Connecticut, November 1940

  

 Farm auction, Derby, Connecticut, September 1940

  

 Granville Clarke, Florida migratory agricultural worker studying road map before leaving Elizabeth City with his crew. They are going to Bridgeville, Delaware to work in a cannery. July 1940

  

 In a trailer camp in Childersburg, Alabama. Many workmen and their families living here are either waiting for job openings or already have jobs at the nearby powder plant. May 1941

  

 In a trailer camp in Childersburg, Alabama. Many workmen and their families living here are either waiting for job openings or already have jobs at the nearby powder plant. May 1941

  

Negro tenant family near Greensboro, Alabama, May 1941

Greene County Fair

From Jack Delano come these photos of the Greene County Fair, Greene County, Georgia. Taken in October 1941.

 White schoolchildren were admitted free one day, Negro schoolchildren the next.

  

 Negro schoolchildren came to the Greene County fair in trucks. 

 

Schoolchildren getting off the bus for free day at the fair

Jack Delano

 Along a road near Greensboro, Alabama, May 1941

  

 An outdoor potato grader using migratory labor. At the freight station 

in Elizabeth City, North Carolina. July 1940

  

 At the change of the shift at the Penomah Mills Inc., 

Taftville, Connecticut, November 1940

  

 Boys at the riverfront in Norwich, Connecticut, November 1940

  

Cleaning turpentine cups in boiling water at a still near Pembroke, Georgia, April 1941

Greene County

Another set by Jack Delano taken in Greene County, Georgia in 1941. Previous set here.

 A sale of pots and pans in Union Point, Greene County, Georgia, June 1941

  

 At the Mary-Leila cotton mill in Greensboro, Georgia, October 1941

  

 At the May Day pageant in Siloam, Greene County, Georgia, May 1941

  

 At the May Day pageant in Siloam, Greene County, Georgia, May 1941

  

 Daughter of a Negro FSA (Farm Security Administration) 

client, Greensboro, Greene County, Georgia, June 1941

  

 Greensboro, Greene County, Georgia. Band at a football game, Fall 1941

  

 Saturday afternoon in Union Point, Greene County, Georgia, June 1941

  

 Saturday afternoon outside of a Negro store and barbershop 

in Union Point, Greene County, Georgia, June 1941

  

 The second shift at the textile mill in Union Point, Greene County, Georgia, May-June 1941

  

Union Point, Greene County, Georgia. Union Point hosiery mill, 1941

Greene County

These photos of labor unrest in Greene County, Georgia are from Jack Delano.

 CIO pickets jeering at few workers who were entering 

a mill in Greensboro, Greene County, Georgia. May 1941

  

 CIO pickets jeering at few workers who were entering a mill 

in Greensboro, Greene County, Georgia. May 1941

  

 Mill workers who lived largely in rural areas being taken through CIO picket line at a textile mill in Greensboro, Georgia. The lockout lasting about three months ending in a signed contract. May 1941

  

 Pickets outside a textile mill in Greensboro, Greene County, Georgia, May 1941

  

 Pickets outside a textile mill in Greensboro, Greene County, Georgia, May 1941

  

Pickets outside a textile mill in Greensboro, Greene County, Georgia, May 1941

Jack Delano

 Backstage at the "girlie" show at the Vermont state fair, Rutland, September 1941

  

 Barker at the grounds at the Vermont state fair, Rutland, September 1941

  

 

 On the ferris wheel at the Vermont state fair, Rutland, September 1941

 

 Children in a company housing settlement, Puerto Rico, December 1941

   

 Men and a woman reading headlines posted in street-corner window of Brockton Enterprise newspaper office on Christmas Eve, Brockton, Massachusetts, December 1940

  

 Near White Plains, Georgia, 1941

   

 Operating a machine for putting tops on crates at a co-op 

orange packing plant, Redlands, California, March 1943

  

Skating, vicinity of Brockton, Massachusetts, December 1940