The Silent Intensity: African Americans in Southeast Missouri Farms

The Silent Intensity: African Americans in Southeast Missouri Farms

Southeast Missouri Farms.
Missouri African American families
New Madrid County (Mo.)
L:aForge (Mo).
Family life

The Federal Security Administration (FSA) was a New Deal agency designed to combat rural poverty during a period when the agricultural climate and national economy were causing great dislocations in rural life. The photographers who worked under the name of the FSA were hired on for public relations; they were supposed to provide visual evidence that there was need, and that the FSA programs were meeting that need. Beyond serving this institutional image, the photographers were to document aspects of "the American way of life" that caught their eye.

Commissioned Photographers

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Organized by The Arts At Page Library, Images Obtained from The New York Public Library Public Domain Collections, Umbra.search, and the Library of Congress

Date Created: 1935-1944 | Great Depression

Curated By kYmberly Keeton, M.L.S., Arts Library Coordinator, The Arts At Page Library at Inman E. Page Library

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Farm Security Administration Collection.

Photography Collection

English

Still Images

African Americans | Southeast Missouri Farms

Content: Photographs and Prints Division, The Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture.
Content: Original negative #: 11572-M4