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Norman Lumpkin, news director for WRMA radio, talking to a young girl in the cotton field of Mrs. Minnie B. Guice near Mount Meigs in Montgomery County, Alabama.

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Peppler, Jim

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Lumpkin is carrying a tape recorder and holding up a boll of cotton. This image was taken for one of two photo spreads that appeared in The Southern Courier for September 10-11, 1966 ("Cotton Fields Part One"), and September 17-18, 1966 ("Cotton Fields Part Two"). Both issues are available online (not on the ADAH website): http://www.southerncourier.org/low-res/Vol2_No37_1966_09_10.pdf and http://www.southerncourier.org/low-res/Vol2_No38_1966_09_17.pdf
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Created Date:
1966 September
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Copyright, Alabama Department of Archives and History.
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Jim Peppler Southern Courier Photograph Collection

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Alabama Dept. of Archives and History, 624 Washington Ave., Montgomery, AL 36130

Keywords

  1. African Americans
  2. Agricultural Laborers
  3. Agriculture
  4. Children
  5. Cotton
  6. Employment
  7. Journalists
  8. Lumpkin, Norman
  9. Montgomery County (Ala.)
  10. Mount Meigs (Ala.)

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