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Farm Security Administration
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The Farm Security Administration was a United States New Deal agency part of the Department of Agriculture created in 1937 to combat rural poverty during the Great Depression. It succeeded the Resettl
Walker Evans portrait of Allie Mae Burroughs (1936) taken for the Resettlement Administration
Walker Evans portrait of Allie Mae Burroughs (1936) taken for the Resettlement Administration
Arthur Rothstein's Farmer and Sons Walking in the Face of a Dust Storm, a Resettlement Administration photograph taken in Cimarron County, Oklahoma, i
Arthur Rothstein's Farmer and Sons Walking in the Face of a Dust Storm, a Resettlement Administration photograph taken in Cimarron County, Oklahoma, in April 1936
Lone Driller’s Water Break is a 1939 photograph by Russell Lee, taken as part of the Farm Security Administration's photography program. It depicts a
Lone Driller’s Water Break is a 1939 photograph by Russell Lee, taken as part of the Farm Security Administration's photography program. It depicts a worker drinking from a battered pan during the Texas Oil Boom in Kilgore, Texas — a snapshot of boomtown grit and improvisation.
John Collier Jr.
John Collier Jr.
Sharecropping
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Sharecropping is the legal arrangement in which a landowner allows a tenant to use the land in return for a share of the crops produced on that land. Sharecropping is different from tenant farming, wh
Farm Security Administration
…would fall back into inefficient practices not guided by RA and FSA experts. The Dust Bowl in the Great Plains displaced thousands of tenant farmers, sharecroppers, and laborers, many of whom (known as "Okies" or "Arkies") moved on to California. The FSA operated camps for them, such as Weedpatch Camp as depicted…
A Farm Security Administration photo of a cropper family chopping the weeds from cotton near White Plains, in Georgia, US (1941)
A Farm Security Administration photo of a cropper family chopping the weeds from cotton near White Plains, in Georgia, US (1941)
Sharecroppers on the roadside after they were evicted for membership in the Southern Tenant Farmers Union (January 1936)
Sharecroppers on the roadside after they were evicted for membership in the Southern Tenant Farmers Union (January 1936)
An early 20th century Texas sharecropper's home diorama at the Audie Murphy American Cotton Museum, in Greenville, Texas 2015
An early 20th century Texas sharecropper's home diorama at the Audie Murphy American Cotton Museum, in Greenville, Texas 2015
Cotton sharecroppers, Hale County, Alabama, 1936
Cotton sharecroppers, Hale County, Alabama, 1936