Jonathan EmmesediThis article on the Southern Tenant Farmers Union provides helpful background information for making sense of the image:
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When Black and White tenant farmers joined together to take on the plantation south
The Southern Tenant Farmers Union was founded on the principle of interracial organizing. It challenged the Southern landowning class and the Jim Crow white supremacist order, leaving a proud legacy for both the labor movement and the civil rights movement.