A Sharecropper’s Family
Photographer Ben Shahn captures the lives of Black sharecropper families in Little Rock, Arkansas one Sunday in 1935
Alex Lichtenstein is Professor of History and American Studies at Indiana University and the former editor in chief of the American Historical Review (2017-21). He is the co-author of Margaret Bourke-White and the Dawn of Apartheid, and Marked, Unmarked, Remembered: A Geography of American Memory, a collaboration with his brother, photojournalist Andrew Lichtenstein.
Listen to Alex Lichtenstein discuss Black history and his essay.
Photographer Ben Shahn captures the lives of Black sharecropper families in Little Rock, Arkansas one Sunday in 1935
