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Time For Study | 1940

A group of African American tenant farmer children studying their lessons by lamplight. Notice the newspapers covering the tattered table cloth, as well as plastered on the wall for insulation (to block drafts). Creek County, Oklahoma, 1940.

 

Vintage African American photography courtesy of Black History Album, The Way We Were.

 

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Uploaded on January 31, 2010
Taken on January 31, 2010