Night street meeting of cotton strikers near end of defeated strike. Kern County, California, 1939. Creator: Dorothea Lange.

Night street meeting of cotton strikers near end of defeated strike. Kern County, California, 1939. Creator: Dorothea Lange.

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Kern County, California. Night street meeting of cotton strikers near end of defeated strike. Strikers received seventy-five cents per 100 pounds; demanded one dollar. In 1910 cotton growers in Imperial County advertised for pickers in the Southwest to come to Imperial Valley to pick for one dollar per 100 pounds.

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