Dorothea Lange: Cropper, 1937

Americus: 1937 | Shorpy Photo Archive

July 1937. "Thirteen-year old sharecropper boy near Americus, Georgia." Medium-format nitrate negative by Dorothea Lange.

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Georgia Ritual Sacrifice

Ritual Sacrifice. --T.R. Hummer


In Georgia, marshmallows are burned in the auto de fe, for the edification of the children.

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Georgia Socialism

Gourd Condominium, Georgia. --T.R. Hummer

In Georgia, where this photo was taken, every citizen is entitled to forty gourds and a bird.

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America, Could We Take A Deep, Cleansing Breath Here: Swastika Painted on Rep. David Scott's Office Sign in Georgia

Swastikas? | TPM

David Kurtz writes:

Help me out here. Is the swastika scrawled on the district office door sign of Rep. David Scott (D-GA) in Smyrna supposed to suggest that he's a Nazi (blacks being especially favored by Hitler, don't you know) or is it a warning that the vandal is a fascist thug?

Scott had a town hall meeting last week that was especially heated on health care reform, but it's not clear if the two events are connected.

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Segregated Proms in Georgia

Leonard Doyle writes:

The election of Barack Obama did nothing to change attitudes that go back generations in the small rural towns of Montgomery county, Georgia; the surge of pride black people felt in the election of the first black President was met by frosty silence by whites. The county, which is two thirds white, voted overwhelmingly Republican last November and attitudes have hardened as the months have passed.

Barred from attending the white prom, Kera still stood outside to show moral support for her closest friends, cheering and taking photographs as they arrived and did the "senior walk" into the community hall with their boyfriends or their fathers. Then she left, with her black friends.

Next evening her own white friends encouraged her and took their own pictures as she and her friends dressed in lavishly coloured dresses and rented dress suits for their own event at the same venue.

She was close to tears. "Every (school) class we sat beside each other," she said, ticking off the names of her best white girlfirends, Harley Boone and Cierra Sharpe.

"We love each other. But there's a lot of hidden history here, and while everybody gets along there's always something... If your parents are a certain way nine times out of 10 you're going to think the same way."

link: Segregated high school proms divide Georgia's students - Telegraph