Haircutting in Front of General Store, Mileston Plantation, Mileston, Mississippi Delta

A man in overalls cuts the hair of a man seated on a Coca-Cola case. Six others sit on a porch, each waiting for their turn with the barber. Farm Security Administration (FSA) photographer Marion Post Wolcott documented rural poverty and racial discrimination, such as the work and living conditions of tenant farmers, in the wake of the Great Depression. The FSA purchased 10,000 acres of a former plantation in Mileston, Mississippi, the year after Wolcott took this photograph, forming Mississippi’s only Black resettlement community on the land.