Benefits of Farm Security Administration | History of SC Slide Collection

The Farm Security Administration, a part of the Department of Agriculture, carried out a number of projects to help rural Americans improve their lives. These projects ranged from helping to combat erosion to teaching farm women safe canning and food preparation skills. This sharecropper's wife, in the vicinity of Gaffney, displays her jars of canned produce on the front step of her house. The FSA also took a leading role in documenting the impact of the Depression. Its photographic services branch sent some of the nation's best photographers into rural areas. Dorothy Lange, who took this photograph, noted that "The farmer does a little day labor for his landlord for which he received 50 cts. a day in 1936 and 60 and 75 cts. a day in 1937."

Courtesy of the Library of Congress.

Standards

• This indicator was developed to promote inquiry into how wartime government activities, the Progressive Movement, and the New Deal represented an expansion of federal power, including attempts to protect citizens.
  • This indicator was developed to promote inquiry into how the role of the government expanded during the Great Depression through the implementation of government programs. The indicator encourages inquiry into New Deal programs such as the Federal Dep...
• This indicator was designed to promote inquiry into military and economic policies during World War II, to include the significance of military bases in South Carolina. This indicator was also developed to foster inquiry into postwar economic developments and demographic changes, to include the immigration of Jewish refugees following the Holocaust.
  • This indicator was designed to promote inquiry into the devastation of the Great Depression and the impact of the New Deal on a largely agricultural South Carolina. This indicator was also designed to foster inquiry into the economic diversification b...