School for black children in Anthoston, Kentucky. Only 7 of 27 children in the area regularly attended school: "Tobacco keeps them out and they are short of hands." Henderson County, Kentucky. Photographed by Lewis W. Hine (1874-1940), September 13, 1916.

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