Black and white cililian and military life at Pahokee and Belle Glade (Fla.), 1941-1943

Original, arbitrary arrangement.

Photographic prints depicting African Americans, Black Bahamians and whites at work and play in Pahokee, Belle Glade and Canal Point (Palm Beach County, Fla.)

The anonymous photographer used a Speed Graphic camera to shoot these views; he appears in several photographs, gazing at a map of the Pacific Ocean. During the 1930s and 1940s, farms near Lake Okeechobee grew vegetables for northern markets, harvesting the crops from Christmas to April. During World War II, Bahamian migrant workers helped mitigate the need for unskilled labor. Nearly 3,000 Black Bahamians picked vegetables (in these photos, beans) and cut sugar cane. Author: Dawn Hugh and Rebecca Smith

Agricultural laborers
Bahamians -- 1940-1950
Belle Glade (Fla.)
Canal Point (Fla.)
Migrant workers
Pahokee (Fla.)
World War, 1939-1945