Coffee County farmers planting peanuts, ca. 1939. With the decimation of the cotton crop by the boll weevil in the early twentieth century, Coffee County farmers were forced to diversify. Peanuts became an important cash crop, thanks in large part to the efforts of Tuskegee Institute agricultural researcher George Washington Carver.
Farmers Planting Peanuts
Courtesy of the Library of Congress
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