Tobacco Crew Near Tifton, 1977.

Photographer Unknown.

Courtesy of the American Folklife Project.

This photograph, made by a folklorist as part of the South Central Georgia Folklife Project, epitomizes the beginning of the end of African-American labor in the agricultural industry in the South. By the mid-1980s, Hispanics had begun to replace African-Americans in jobs that had been synonymous with the race since before the Civil War.