Because of the massive demand for sugar from sugar beet, sugar beet acreage increased more rapidly than any other crop since the 1900s.
This image is of interest to the project because it reveals how certain crops, such as sugar beet, could influence Washington’s decision-makers to accept more migrant workers as labor forces to serve America’s economic interest.
Collins, Marjory, photographer. Stockton vicinity, California. Mexican agricultural laborer topping sugar beets. United States California Stockton San Joaquin County, 1943. May. Photograph. https://www.loc.gov/item/2017853211/.