Press Photo of Owen Whitfield During the 1939 Sharecroppers Protest.
Chicago, Illinois: International News Photos, January 1939. Single photograph measuring 5 x 8 inches with typed caption affixed verso. A portrait of activist preacher Owen Whitfield (1891–1965), taken during the 1939 Missouri sharecropper protest. The caption reads in part: “Preacher Owen H. Whitfield, of La Forge, MO., negro preacher.....