The Farm Security Administration and Rural Rehabilitation in the South

The Farm Security Administration and Rural Rehabilitation in the South PDF Author: Charles Kenneth Roberts
Publisher: Univ Tennessee Press
ISBN: 9781621901600
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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Book Description
"This manuscript examines the Farm Security Administration's political and administrative history and assesses the ideology of the institution against the overall goals of the New Deal. Roberts argues that the FSA's operating procedure in the rural south was woefully inadequate, stemming from a misunderstanding of rural poverty from leading New Dealers, a bogged-down bureaucracy that offered contradictory advice to southern farmers, and ineffective on-the-ground efforts by FSA agents"--