There is no better way to celebrate Black History Month than with historic photographs from an era long-gone ... and Beyoncé.
The photos are publicly available for the first time thanks to the recently digitized collection from the Farm Security Administration, which captured America on film from the mid-1930s to 1942. Along with other agencies' photos, the collection totals more than 170,000 pictures.Â
The images below offer a rare glimpse into the lives of African-American workers and families. Many were employed as sharecroppers or tenant farmers, but landowners often kept these farmers in their debt, leaving many hardworking families poverty-stricken. Conditions worsened with the Great Depression, as African-American workers were hit especially hard. By 1932, nearly half were out of work. It was a bleak period in history, but it laid the groundwork for many of the labor movements and civil rights protests to come.Â
<p>Like these photographs, Beyoncé's latest single, <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LrCHz1gwzTo" target="true">"Formation,"</a> (written by <a href="http://www.complex.com/music/2016/02/beyonce-new-song-formation" target="true">Queen B and Swae Lee</a>) perfectly captures a spirit that is strong, fearless, and unapologetically black. </p><p><strong>In the spirit of Black History Month, why not experience the two together?</strong></p></div><h2>"Y'all haters corny with that Illuminati mess."</h2><div><img type="lazy-image" data-runner-src="https://assets.rebelmouse.io/eyJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiIsInR5cCI6IkpXVCJ9.eyJpbWFnZSI6Imh0dHBzOi8vYXNzZXRzLnJibC5tcy8xOTUxNzI3OS9vcmlnaW4uanBnIiwiZXhwaXJlc19hdCI6MTYxMzQ3MzE1Mn0.-grLBlHupZJcfxSUIKOwkv4_CIu-9_u4pEjyFc6WTc4/img.jpg?width=980" id="5b233" class="rm-shortcode" data-rm-shortcode-id="266c36953cf8589acd7bc8d67ad14ed1" data-rm-shortcode-name="rebelmouse-image"><p class="image-caption">Natchez, Mississippi, 1940. Photo by <a href="http://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/510d47df-f8d3-a3d9-e040-e00a18064a99">Marion Post Wolcott/U.S. Farm Security Administration.</a></p></div><h2>"Paparazzi, catch my fly, and my cocky fresh."</h2><div><img type="lazy-image" data-runner-src="https://assets.rebelmouse.io/eyJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiIsInR5cCI6IkpXVCJ9.eyJpbWFnZSI6Imh0dHBzOi8vYXNzZXRzLnJibC5tcy8xOTUxNzI4MC9vcmlnaW4uanBnIiwiZXhwaXJlc19hdCI6MTY1NzcxNTQ5Mn0.Ty5K_U6DIe2zIsK0ufdmPpkzw8LJmxx-fnQsahGIJ7I/img.jpg?width=980" id="b7498" class="rm-shortcode" data-rm-shortcode-id="1539fa119751b384a9263bb6f630aba7" data-rm-shortcode-name="rebelmouse-image"><p class="image-caption">Watching the Columbia-Navy football game in Annapolis, Maryland. Photo by <a href="http://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/510d47df-f91f-a3d9-e040-e00a18064a99">John Vachon/U.S. Farm Security Administration.</a></p></div><h2>"I'm so reckless when I rock my Givenchy dress (stylin')."</h2><div><img type="lazy-image" data-runner-src="https://assets.rebelmouse.io/eyJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiIsInR5cCI6IkpXVCJ9.eyJpbWFnZSI6Imh0dHBzOi8vYXNzZXRzLnJibC5tcy8xOTUxNzI4MS9vcmlnaW4uanBnIiwiZXhwaXJlc19hdCI6MTY1NjA4ODY1MX0.sTYuWMqTyQefj0vMUz6CTfpb8nCpEwMfjFQgFcxgbn0/img.jpg?width=980" id="3002b" class="rm-shortcode" data-rm-shortcode-id="bd53f2438b1979d42a45462445afe8ff" data-rm-shortcode-name="rebelmouse-image"><p class="image-caption">Church Sunday in Little Rock, Arkansas, 1935. Photo by <a href="http://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/510d47df-f89b-a3d9-e040-e00a18064a99">Ben Shahn/U.S. Farm Security Administration.</a></p></div><h2>"My daddy Alabama"</h2><div><img type="lazy-image" data-runner-src="https://assets.rebelmouse.io/eyJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiIsInR5cCI6IkpXVCJ9.eyJpbWFnZSI6Imh0dHBzOi8vYXNzZXRzLnJibC5tcy8xOTUxNzI4Mi9vcmlnaW4uanBnIiwiZXhwaXJlc19hdCI6MTY2OTU3MDIzNX0.Bhz2jVlaWworpyXEhfJMYjXkOc0Hmb5RtwEhtV4KXY4/img.jpg?width=980" id="af5e7" class="rm-shortcode" data-rm-shortcode-id="2d39b2f363de9ebd28074a06ef14c8b9" data-rm-shortcode-name="rebelmouse-image"><p class="image-caption">Reading classes in Gee's Bend, Alabama, 1939. Photo by <a href="http://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/510d47df-f8a7-a3d9-e040-e00a18064a99">Marion Post Wolcott/U.S. Farm Security Administration.</a></p></div><h2>"Momma Louisiana. You mix that Negro with that Creole make a Texas bama."</h2><div><img type="lazy-image" data-runner-src="https://assets.rebelmouse.io/eyJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiIsInR5cCI6IkpXVCJ9.eyJpbWFnZSI6Imh0dHBzOi8vYXNzZXRzLnJibC5tcy8xOTUxNzI4My9vcmlnaW4uanBnIiwiZXhwaXJlc19hdCI6MTYzMTE1OTUwOH0.h4synskcXnHPa0NfrpKEbFtj1MAJ8k_zOL1O-G4z5h8/img.jpg?width=980" id="59f26" class="rm-shortcode" data-rm-shortcode-id="72d23d4344833c9d063b9d5bd198de3f" data-rm-shortcode-name="rebelmouse-image"><p class="image-caption">A sharecropper's home in Independence, Louisiana, 1939. Photo by <a href="http://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/510d47de-816e-a3d9-e040-e00a18064a99">Lee Russell/U.S. Farm Security Administration.</a></p></div><h2>"I like my baby heir with baby hair and Afros. I like my Negro nose with Jackson 5 nostrils."</h2><div><img type="lazy-image" data-runner-src="https://assets.rebelmouse.io/eyJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiIsInR5cCI6IkpXVCJ9.eyJpbWFnZSI6Imh0dHBzOi8vYXNzZXRzLnJibC5tcy8xOTUxNzI4NC9vcmlnaW4uanBnIiwiZXhwaXJlc19hdCI6MTY0NDU2Njg3NX0.Jw148TE_USeIkC7A0bgraezUHddDezHYBhGDPObZPYw/img.jpg?width=980" id="4afe6" class="rm-shortcode" data-rm-shortcode-id="380906e76e6a30d0d7a3ffe2d3c4140c" data-rm-shortcode-name="rebelmouse-image"><p class="image-caption">Lee County, Mississippi, 1935. Photo by <a href="http://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/510d47df-f8d9-a3d9-e040-e00a18064a99">Arthur Rothstein/U.S. Farm Security Administration.</a></p></div><h2>"Earned all this money but they never take the country out me. "</h2><div><img type="lazy-image" data-runner-src="https://assets.rebelmouse.io/eyJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiIsInR5cCI6IkpXVCJ9.eyJpbWFnZSI6Imh0dHBzOi8vYXNzZXRzLnJibC5tcy8xOTUxNzI4NS9vcmlnaW4uanBnIiwiZXhwaXJlc19hdCI6MTY2ODk0OTA0NH0.ZMcYCnU150UfT9aaYTpvho8n3VhX2PIhYSme-5_O6bc/img.jpg?width=980" id="8f9cd" class="rm-shortcode" data-rm-shortcode-id="e17a94db40425c8e25cedc4c4180c0d7" data-rm-shortcode-name="rebelmouse-image"><p class="image-caption">Fuquay Springs, North Carolina, 1935. Photo by <a href="http://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/510d47df-f913-a3d9-e040-e00a18064a99">Arthur Rothstein/U.S. Farm Security Administration.</a></p></div><h2>"I got hot sauce in my bag, swag."</h2><div><img type="lazy-image" data-runner-src="https://assets.rebelmouse.io/eyJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiIsInR5cCI6IkpXVCJ9.eyJpbWFnZSI6Imh0dHBzOi8vYXNzZXRzLnJibC5tcy8xOTUxNzI4Ni9vcmlnaW4uanBnIiwiZXhwaXJlc19hdCI6MTY1NjY5NzAyOH0.23NksNzYRdwPYtrrvQKcuOk97E1jnSRXO2sQ9r11MV0/img.jpg?width=980" id="7740d" class="rm-shortcode" data-rm-shortcode-id="924f92ce95c63fbecfc00112dfddfb27" data-rm-shortcode-name="rebelmouse-image"><p class="image-caption">Clarksdale, Mississippi, 1939. Photo by <a href="http://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/510d47df-f8d0-a3d9-e040-e00a18064a99">Marion Post Wolcott/U.S. Farm Security Administration.</a></p></div><h2>"I like corn breads and collard greens"</h2><div><img type="lazy-image" data-runner-src="https://assets.rebelmouse.io/eyJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiIsInR5cCI6IkpXVCJ9.eyJpbWFnZSI6Imh0dHBzOi8vYXNzZXRzLnJibC5tcy8xOTUxNzI4Ny9vcmlnaW4uanBnIiwiZXhwaXJlc19hdCI6MTY0NDI4NzE0N30.dxAFI8vUFbgFvD1iFsgdCj7QLzWwSX-L6dXWAFAd3eM/img.jpg?width=980" id="c0d0d" class="rm-shortcode" data-rm-shortcode-id="527ded876abd05ecb0150e8be18adca8" data-rm-shortcode-name="rebelmouse-image"><p class="image-caption">Washing greens in Belle Glade, Florida, 1941. Photo by <a href="http://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/510d47df-f88c-a3d9-e040-e00a18064a99">Marion Post Wolcott/U.S. Farm Security Administration.</a></p></div><h2>"Oh, yes, you besta believe it."</h2><div><img type="lazy-image" data-runner-src="https://assets.rebelmouse.io/eyJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiIsInR5cCI6IkpXVCJ9.eyJpbWFnZSI6Imh0dHBzOi8vYXNzZXRzLnJibC5tcy8xOTUxNzI4OC9vcmlnaW4uanBnIiwiZXhwaXJlc19hdCI6MTYyMzM0NDM0Nn0.8jcc-ZbgRE8_T8Uggp7_OUugsrqd-zn3RXjpfIy0kzg/img.jpg?width=980" id="9c13a" class="rm-shortcode" data-rm-shortcode-id="3dab6bb9bb0ddb5e9e5261f684a9b62b" data-rm-shortcode-name="rebelmouse-image"><p class="image-caption">Granville County, North Carolina, 1939. Photo by <a href="http://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/510d47df-f924-a3d9-e040-e00a18064a99">Marion Post Wolcott/U.S. Farm Security Administration.</a></p></div><h2>"I see it, I want it"</h2><div><img type="lazy-image" data-runner-src="https://assets.rebelmouse.io/eyJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiIsInR5cCI6IkpXVCJ9.eyJpbWFnZSI6Imh0dHBzOi8vYXNzZXRzLnJibC5tcy8xOTUxNzI4OS9vcmlnaW4uanBnIiwiZXhwaXJlc19hdCI6MTYxODIzOTY2OX0.39T5jlkAwmsxhnLna1LvS3GT-t_11k8A07ZT3TwWa2A/img.jpg?width=980" id="b135f" class="rm-shortcode" data-rm-shortcode-id="34020757179e8c62193394bd6d02c0fb" data-rm-shortcode-name="rebelmouse-image"><p class="image-caption">Chicago, 1941. Photo by <a href="http://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/510d47de-8174-a3d9-e040-e00a18064a99">Russell Lee/U.S. Farm Security Administration.</a></p></div><h2>"I stunt, yellow-bone it."</h2><div><img type="lazy-image" data-runner-src="https://assets.rebelmouse.io/eyJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiIsInR5cCI6IkpXVCJ9.eyJpbWFnZSI6Imh0dHBzOi8vYXNzZXRzLnJibC5tcy8xOTUxNzI5MC9vcmlnaW4uanBnIiwiZXhwaXJlc19hdCI6MTYxNzc5NTIzM30.EvwJ_my8474l2GO4ILSGIPPWFC_M87IZxYO-WIAgEis/img.jpg?width=980" id="5492a" class="rm-shortcode" data-rm-shortcode-id="a8849daae9de460a5673e17b2fbd7fc3" data-rm-shortcode-name="rebelmouse-image"><p class="image-caption">A woman works at a factory in San Juan, Puerto Rico. Photo by <a href="http://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/510d47df-f969-a3d9-e040-e00a18064a99">Jack Delano/U.S. Farm Security Administration.</a> </p></div><h2>"I dream it."</h2><div><img type="lazy-image" data-runner-src="https://assets.rebelmouse.io/eyJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiIsInR5cCI6IkpXVCJ9.eyJpbWFnZSI6Imh0dHBzOi8vYXNzZXRzLnJibC5tcy8xOTUxNzI5MS9vcmlnaW4uanBnIiwiZXhwaXJlc19hdCI6MTYxOTM5Mzc0Mn0.usFc35B4szRt6en34SJ8sSar6I30b4uqYTF0FGXZOqs/img.jpg?width=980" id="39afe" class="rm-shortcode" data-rm-shortcode-id="0fe6a23f28ebc4aff53481a32be8d4a5" data-rm-shortcode-name="rebelmouse-image"><p class="image-caption">Washington, D.C., 1939. Photo by <a href="http://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/510d47df-f8ba-a3d9-e040-e00a18064a99">Marjory Collins/U.S. Farm Security Administration.</a></p></div><h2>"I work hard."</h2><div><img type="lazy-image" data-runner-src="https://assets.rebelmouse.io/eyJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiIsInR5cCI6IkpXVCJ9.eyJpbWFnZSI6Imh0dHBzOi8vYXNzZXRzLnJibC5tcy8xOTUxNzI5Mi9vcmlnaW4uanBnIiwiZXhwaXJlc19hdCI6MTY2NTQxNTQ4Nn0.IHmIm-HLb-fovwglmczVW5VeHpPNxGS6Kc24EoWCD7Q/img.jpg?width=980" id="fd451" class="rm-shortcode" data-rm-shortcode-id="2e3356bc24d3f43a89cee9f494280926" data-rm-shortcode-name="rebelmouse-image"><p class="image-caption">A woman teaches lessons in her home in Transylvania, Louisiana, 1939. Photo by <a href="http://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/510d47de-8719-a3d9-e040-e00a18064a99">Russell Lee/U.S. Farm Security Administration.</a></p></div><h2>"I grind till I own it."</h2><div><img type="lazy-image" data-runner-src="https://assets.rebelmouse.io/eyJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiIsInR5cCI6IkpXVCJ9.eyJpbWFnZSI6Imh0dHBzOi8vYXNzZXRzLnJibC5tcy8xOTUxNzI5NC9vcmlnaW4uanBnIiwiZXhwaXJlc19hdCI6MTYzNDk2MzQyMn0.9BW8vVUsnwNBSlr5hzKYGhdCgStgLv58YRcWUuNtH24/img.jpg?width=980" id="a327f" class="rm-shortcode" data-rm-shortcode-id="b2541ca682f815fa1019d3845201e515" data-rm-shortcode-name="rebelmouse-image"><p class="image-caption">Memphis, Tennessee, 1938. Photo by <a href="http://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/510d47df-f979-a3d9-e040-e00a18064a99">Lee Russell/U.S. Farm Security Administration.</a></p></div><h2>"Sometimes I go off (I go off)"</h2><div><img type="lazy-image" data-runner-src="https://assets.rebelmouse.io/eyJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiIsInR5cCI6IkpXVCJ9.eyJpbWFnZSI6Imh0dHBzOi8vYXNzZXRzLnJibC5tcy8xOTUxNzI5NS9vcmlnaW4uanBnIiwiZXhwaXJlc19hdCI6MTY2NTU1MTAyNX0.MeHF4jay29Kia9r_XRvpRafTZYDA8dJG3lLmWbsyugA/img.jpg?width=980" id="87892" class="rm-shortcode" data-rm-shortcode-id="a6cc7572b39bd560a89e6417a86d6666" data-rm-shortcode-name="rebelmouse-image"><p class="image-caption">Singing during the collection at a black church in Heard County, Georgia. Photo by <a href="http://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/510d47df-f925-a3d9-e040-e00a18064a99">Jack Delano/U.S. Farm Security Administration.</a></p></div><h2>"I go hard (I go hard)"</h2><div><img type="lazy-image" data-runner-src="https://assets.rebelmouse.io/eyJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiIsInR5cCI6IkpXVCJ9.eyJpbWFnZSI6Imh0dHBzOi8vYXNzZXRzLnJibC5tcy8xOTUxNzI5Ni9vcmlnaW4uanBnIiwiZXhwaXJlc19hdCI6MTYxOTIzODIwOX0.OwsYx8JiKW6ky-0Wok5ylLJDzWvaesItvR-rUgnzdOg/img.jpg?width=980" id="9e1a6" class="rm-shortcode" data-rm-shortcode-id="8c4bfad0c79f95d4499a08b83f3e9ae0" data-rm-shortcode-name="rebelmouse-image"><p class="image-caption">A man removes seeds from a cotton gin in Clarksdale, Mississippi, 1939. Photo by <a href="http://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/510d47df-f8c7-a3d9-e040-e00a18064a99">Marion Post Wolcott/U.S. Farm Security Administration.</a></p></div><h2>"Get what's mine (take what's mine)"</h2><div><img type="lazy-image" data-runner-src="https://assets.rebelmouse.io/eyJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiIsInR5cCI6IkpXVCJ9.eyJpbWFnZSI6Imh0dHBzOi8vYXNzZXRzLnJibC5tcy8xOTUxNzI5Ny9vcmlnaW4uanBnIiwiZXhwaXJlc19hdCI6MTYzMTY3NjQ2Mn0.eGHM8j0x0SiyK02i8l3bwQ2frlW0sJ-9e6w6U5VG67I/img.jpg?width=980" id="fe903" class="rm-shortcode" data-rm-shortcode-id="419b346de4b104928e7a105c2b233bc9" data-rm-shortcode-name="rebelmouse-image"><p class="image-caption">A man buys supplies from a mobile general store in Forrest City, Arkansas, 1938. Photo by <a href="http://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/510d47de-8724-a3d9-e040-e00a18064a99">Russell Lee/U.S. Farm Security Administration.</a></p></div><h2>"I'm a star (I'm a star)"</h2><div><img type="lazy-image" data-runner-src="https://assets.rebelmouse.io/eyJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiIsInR5cCI6IkpXVCJ9.eyJpbWFnZSI6Imh0dHBzOi8vYXNzZXRzLnJibC5tcy8xOTUxNzI5OC9vcmlnaW4uanBnIiwiZXhwaXJlc19hdCI6MTY1NTEzNTMyN30.F5-bObXVVroy1ew3Xxy8I4RaK8Sa-rEG_hVnaBQKmkA/img.jpg?width=980" id="ee059" class="rm-shortcode" data-rm-shortcode-id="8ef1f8c181baa464fa5eebdd51747dcd" data-rm-shortcode-name="rebelmouse-image"><p class="image-caption">Students in Omar, West Virginia. Photo by <a href="http://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/510d47df-f8f3-a3d9-e040-e00a18064a99">Ben Shahn/U.S. Farm Security Administration.</a></p></div><h2>"'Cause I slay, slay"</h2><div><img type="lazy-image" data-runner-src="https://assets.rebelmouse.io/eyJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiIsInR5cCI6IkpXVCJ9.eyJpbWFnZSI6Imh0dHBzOi8vYXNzZXRzLnJibC5tcy8xOTUxNzI5OS9vcmlnaW4uanBnIiwiZXhwaXJlc19hdCI6MTY1MjE0MTg3Mn0.6Kp9IE6sHbPiOO1VxyJQV3ymEtLQZnvYeMS29DXefPY/img.jpg?width=980" id="a1144" class="rm-shortcode" data-rm-shortcode-id="8cbcd94406c8a00e9b594ae5c7928a24" data-rm-shortcode-name="rebelmouse-image"><p class="image-caption">Missouri, 1938. Photo by <a href="http://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/510d47df-f949-a3d9-e040-e00a18064a99">Russell Lee/U.S. Farm Security Administration.</a></p></div><h2>"I slay, hey, I slay, OK" </h2><div><img type="lazy-image" data-runner-src="https://assets.rebelmouse.io/eyJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiIsInR5cCI6IkpXVCJ9.eyJpbWFnZSI6Imh0dHBzOi8vYXNzZXRzLnJibC5tcy8xOTUxNzMwMC9vcmlnaW4uanBnIiwiZXhwaXJlc19hdCI6MTYzNTU4NTU5OX0.f6kFyt6Q_zKnrLBQ2GuoIYLdRhScSdkoKfZvZizjcp8/img.jpg?width=980" id="bba41" class="rm-shortcode" data-rm-shortcode-id="23767e76a9f203c83bdc84cbe81adbee" data-rm-shortcode-name="rebelmouse-image"><p class="image-caption">Friends gather at a juke joint in Clarksdale, Mississippi, 1939. Photo by <a href="http://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/510d47df-f8d2-a3d9-e040-e00a18064a99">Marion Post Wolcott/U.S. Farm Security Administration.</a></p></div><h2>"I slay, OK, all day, OK."</h2><div><img type="lazy-image" data-runner-src="https://assets.rebelmouse.io/eyJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiIsInR5cCI6IkpXVCJ9.eyJpbWFnZSI6Imh0dHBzOi8vYXNzZXRzLnJibC5tcy8xOTUxNzMwMS9vcmlnaW4uanBnIiwiZXhwaXJlc19hdCI6MTY2NjAzNTAyNH0.L0ztefSB0qVBheWZUejqA7hxj-_4gsZrq5YHBYoG2S4/img.jpg?width=980" id="ced75" class="rm-shortcode" data-rm-shortcode-id="584d14f35d59b99ae90a8bddf17f3eb0" data-rm-shortcode-name="rebelmouse-image"><p class="image-caption">Unloading tobacco in Durham, North Carolina, 1939. Photo by <a href="http://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/510d47df-f91d-a3d9-e040-e00a18064a99">Marion Post Wolcott/U.S. Farm Security Administration.</a></p></div><h2>"I slay, OK, I slay, OK."</h2><div><img type="lazy-image" data-runner-src="https://assets.rebelmouse.io/eyJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiIsInR5cCI6IkpXVCJ9.eyJpbWFnZSI6Imh0dHBzOi8vYXNzZXRzLnJibC5tcy8xOTUxNzMwMi9vcmlnaW4uanBnIiwiZXhwaXJlc19hdCI6MTY2NTY3ODc1Mn0.94efpLMWqXU0GblhxwjGgSZiKoGJjnW02c67ONiNUWE/img.jpg?width=980" id="27235" class="rm-shortcode" data-rm-shortcode-id="dd014d21b92d01639f7949ae661a4b0b" data-rm-shortcode-name="rebelmouse-image"><p class="image-caption">Easter morning, Chicago. Photo by <a href="http://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/510d47df-f98b-a3d9-e040-e00a18064a99">Russell Lee/U.S. Farm Security Administration.</a></p></div><h2>"We gon' slay, slay"</h2><div><img type="lazy-image" data-runner-src="https://assets.rebelmouse.io/eyJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiIsInR5cCI6IkpXVCJ9.eyJpbWFnZSI6Imh0dHBzOi8vYXNzZXRzLnJibC5tcy8xOTUxNzMwMy9vcmlnaW4uanBnIiwiZXhwaXJlc19hdCI6MTY0NzIwMTc0M30.RopCcg3GmYTSAUaf5yf40z2grZsxA8IPDXijLE3ay8A/img.jpg?width=980" id="4bd6b" class="rm-shortcode" data-rm-shortcode-id="b998c92ba1bde56e78b8dea547f96b53" data-rm-shortcode-name="rebelmouse-image"><p class="image-caption">The bar at the Palm Tavern in Chicago, 1941. Photo by <a href="http://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/510d47de-8726-a3d9-e040-e00a18064a99">Russell Lee/U.S. Farm Security Administration.</a></p></div><h2>"We slay, OK."</h2><div><img type="lazy-image" data-runner-src="https://assets.rebelmouse.io/eyJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiIsInR5cCI6IkpXVCJ9.eyJpbWFnZSI6Imh0dHBzOi8vYXNzZXRzLnJibC5tcy8xOTUxNzMwNC9vcmlnaW4uanBnIiwiZXhwaXJlc19hdCI6MTY0ODQ2NzUyMH0.UHTjWx-zeAw1yj2sYIGokVjoeD2XuqEPN8cVG7LKJAs/img.jpg?width=980" id="a0894" class="rm-shortcode" data-rm-shortcode-id="3471c14e9c5178fccde1236bc600bc42" data-rm-shortcode-name="rebelmouse-image"><p class="image-caption">Swimming in the fountain at Union Station in Washington, D.C., 1938. Photo by <a href="http://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/510d47df-f8b1-a3d9-e040-e00a18064a99">Marion Post Wolcott/U.S. Farm Security Administration.</a> </p></div><h2>"OK, ladies, now let's get in formation. 'Cause I slay."</h2><div><img type="lazy-image" data-runner-src="https://assets.rebelmouse.io/eyJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiIsInR5cCI6IkpXVCJ9.eyJpbWFnZSI6Imh0dHBzOi8vYXNzZXRzLnJibC5tcy8xOTUxNzMwNS9vcmlnaW4uanBnIiwiZXhwaXJlc19hdCI6MTY1MjkxNjAxNX0.LU2xH0rrmadGal-VsBgS39aKuP8DwBMMDg6SVGiRihA/img.jpg?width=980" id="7d038" class="rm-shortcode" data-rm-shortcode-id="fb390f807de4233d7392343dd5b49f20" data-rm-shortcode-name="rebelmouse-image"><p class="image-caption">National Youth Administration meeting in Chicago. Photo by <a href="http://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/510d47df-f98e-a3d9-e040-e00a18064a99">Russell Lee/U.S. Farm Security Administration.</a></p></div><h2>"OK, ladies, now let's get in formation. 'Cause I slay."</h2><div><img type="lazy-image" data-runner-src="https://assets.rebelmouse.io/eyJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiIsInR5cCI6IkpXVCJ9.eyJpbWFnZSI6Imh0dHBzOi8vYXNzZXRzLnJibC5tcy8xOTUxNzMwNi9vcmlnaW4uanBnIiwiZXhwaXJlc19hdCI6MTYxNTc0NTc1OX0.uGp7qus6fyawQsCGUqDCUxrx3lgDAh4ABQ-ThCuCgtc/img.jpg?width=980" id="79a0d" class="rm-shortcode" data-rm-shortcode-id="a4d38e95c3755ad7e5b2f9b201fbdcef" data-rm-shortcode-name="rebelmouse-image"><p class="image-caption">Fourth- and fifth-grade students in Georgia, 1939. Photo by <a href="http://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/510d47df-f902-a3d9-e040-e00a18064a99">Marion Post Walcott/U.S. Farm Security Administration.</a></p></div><h2>"Prove to me you got some coordination."</h2><div><img type="lazy-image" data-runner-src="https://assets.rebelmouse.io/eyJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiIsInR5cCI6IkpXVCJ9.eyJpbWFnZSI6Imh0dHBzOi8vYXNzZXRzLnJibC5tcy8xOTUxNzMwNy9vcmlnaW4uanBnIiwiZXhwaXJlc19hdCI6MTYzNDMzMTU2OH0.dRuMiO9z982uLBkBvKNZN5wbiOPIBN-EH8MyuZe_l-k/img.jpg?width=980" id="de6db" class="rm-shortcode" data-rm-shortcode-id="0572d1c755b9004be4bd985633db6c50" data-rm-shortcode-name="rebelmouse-image"><p class="image-caption">Construction workers in Washington, D.C., 1941. Photo by <a href="http://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/510d47df-f8b8-a3d9-e040-e00a18064a99">John Collier/U.S. Farm Security Administration.</a></p></div><h2>"I might get your song played on the radio station. 'Cause I slay."</h2><div><img type="lazy-image" data-runner-src="https://assets.rebelmouse.io/eyJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiIsInR5cCI6IkpXVCJ9.eyJpbWFnZSI6Imh0dHBzOi8vYXNzZXRzLnJibC5tcy8xOTUxNzMwOC9vcmlnaW4uanBnIiwiZXhwaXJlc19hdCI6MTY2OTkyMTcyOX0.NWf1H0FMBvZQXd_QOqQTQ_M0KOiE3jNK-SIhzA_5YpY/img.jpg?width=980" id="e22f8" class="rm-shortcode" data-rm-shortcode-id="0c794dd0e510055657b61ec0b1862f19" data-rm-shortcode-name="rebelmouse-image"><p class="image-caption">A blind street musician performs in West Memphis, Arkansas, 1935. Photo by <a href="http://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/510d47df-f899-a3d9-e040-e00a18064a99">Ben Shahn/U.S. Farm Security Administration.</a></p></div><h2>"I might get your song played on the radio station. 'Cause I slay."</h2><div><img type="lazy-image" data-runner-src="https://assets.rebelmouse.io/eyJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiIsInR5cCI6IkpXVCJ9.eyJpbWFnZSI6Imh0dHBzOi8vYXNzZXRzLnJibC5tcy8xOTUxNzMwOS9vcmlnaW4uanBnIiwiZXhwaXJlc19hdCI6MTY0MDg0NjUxMH0.INrLp9VSFkW4LSnVrMc8ZtmvP8nEEmheF53L4c2xrJg/img.jpg?width=980" id="2615f" class="rm-shortcode" data-rm-shortcode-id="47f7001bea520c007c7ec525f2cd0b64" data-rm-shortcode-name="rebelmouse-image"><p class="image-caption">John Dyson plays the accordion in Maryland, 1940. Photo by <a href="http://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/510d47df-f91b-a3d9-e040-e00a18064a99">John Vachon/U.S. Farm Security Administration.</a></p></div><h2>"You might just be a black Bill Gates in the making. 'Cause I slay."</h2><div><img type="lazy-image" data-runner-src="https://assets.rebelmouse.io/eyJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiIsInR5cCI6IkpXVCJ9.eyJpbWFnZSI6Imh0dHBzOi8vYXNzZXRzLnJibC5tcy8xOTUxNzMxMC9vcmlnaW4uanBnIiwiZXhwaXJlc19hdCI6MTY0Mjg5NjA1OH0.esjmqpjSGVo3WKuuoxupx6QRfnHxyrHoSB93hFdwMDE/img.jpg?width=980" id="eb670" class="rm-shortcode" data-rm-shortcode-id="d36c82dda781d4234672fc76e3186684" data-rm-shortcode-name="rebelmouse-image"><p class="image-caption">A farmer with his family and mule team in Flint River Hills, Georgia, 1939. Photo by <a href="http://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/510d47df-f90d-a3d9-e040-e00a18064a99">Marion Post Wolcott/U.S. Farm Security Administration.</a></p></div><h2>"I might just be a black Bill Gates in the making. 'Cause I slay."</h2><div><img type="lazy-image" data-runner-src="https://assets.rebelmouse.io/eyJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiIsInR5cCI6IkpXVCJ9.eyJpbWFnZSI6Imh0dHBzOi8vYXNzZXRzLnJibC5tcy8xOTUxNzMxMS9vcmlnaW4uanBnIiwiZXhwaXJlc19hdCI6MTY2NzQxNjUzM30.QbYLRCiUDXyO3J8WJx9p-eQ2xLHNdDDzT3ft6XegwmA/img.jpg?width=980" id="898d7" class="rm-shortcode" data-rm-shortcode-id="8b8141a611d5a10fb33b09345aa2eb27" data-rm-shortcode-name="rebelmouse-image"><p class="image-caption">A young girl works on a sewing project in Creek County, Oklahoma,1940. Photo by <a href="http://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/510d47df-f968-a3d9-e040-e00a18064a99">Russell Lee/U.S. Farm Security Administration.</a></p></div><h2>"Always stay gracious, best revenge is your paper."</h2><div><img type="lazy-image" data-runner-src="https://assets.rebelmouse.io/eyJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiIsInR5cCI6IkpXVCJ9.eyJpbWFnZSI6Imh0dHBzOi8vYXNzZXRzLnJibC5tcy8xOTUxNzMxMi9vcmlnaW4uanBnIiwiZXhwaXJlc19hdCI6MTY3NDM3Njk5N30.1N0qUcGBYyOfkndE-lwoP-oiFXS11muWEY4PNS3qTrA/img.jpg?width=980" id="01817" class="rm-shortcode" data-rm-shortcode-id="fbf89a4e10c423d4cd0de7f6e652bcec" data-rm-shortcode-name="rebelmouse-image"><p class="image-caption">A former slave in her home in Greensboro, North Carolina, 1941. Photo by <a href="http://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/510d47df-f89f-a3d9-e040-e00a18064a99">Jack Delano/U.S. Farm Security Administration</a></p></div><h2>Don't let Black History Month end without checking out the rest of these incredible photographs. </h2><div><p>There are <a href="http://digitalcollections.nypl.org/collections/farm-security-administration-collection#/?tab=navigation" target="true">hundreds more where these came from</a>, and you can access all of them for free courtesy of the New York Public Library. </p></div></div>
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