Farm Security Administration - the New Deal

Farm Security Administration - the New Deal

Farm Security Administration (FSA) was an effort during the Great Depression to combat American rural poverty. The FSA stressed "rural rehabilitation" efforts to improve the lifestyle of sharecroppers, tenants, very poor landowning farmers, and a program to purchase submarginal land owned by poor farmers and resettle them in group farms on land more suitable for efficient farming. The resettlement projects were part of larger efforts to modernize rural America. Experimental farming programs were included.

The FSA contributed to the society through documentary photography recording its programs during the Great Depression. The FSA photography presents a realist view point, and serves as a frame of reference and an educational tool for later generations to learn from.

Carl Mydans

1935

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Source: 1. Wikipedia; 2. Jim Gabbert "Resettlement Administration". Encyclopedia of Oklahoma History & Culture. Oklahoma Historical Society. Retrieved 2013-09-01- (Wikipedia).

Potato laboratory, Prince George's County, Maryland

Source: Farm Security Administration  - Office of War Information Photograph Collection (Library of Congress)

Library of Congress

Carl Mydans

Medium: Photograph

English

Organization

Farm Security Administration, FSA, Great Depression, Rural Poverty, Anti-Poverty, FDR

United States