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07/08/09 1:25 PM

Day 28: Moundville, AL

Much Needed Perspective From a Daughter of Sharecroppers


h2_2001.415.jpg"I had a good momma and daddy," Dottie tells me, referring to those better known to a wider world as George and Annie Mae Gudger, heads of one sharecropping family profiled in the American classic Let Us Now Praise Famous Men by James Agee, with iconic photos by Walker Evans--such as this one of Dottie's mother. "We didn't have much, but what we had was made honest. I know people today couldn't work like they did." Read More
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