The Farm Security Administration also known as the FSA was created by the Department of Agriculture in 1937. The FSA was one of the New Deal programs made to during the Depression to combat American rural poverty. The FSA stressed "rural rehabilitation" efforts alot to help improve the lifestyle of sharecroppers, tenants, very poor landowning farmers, and a program to purchase land owned by poor farmers and resettle them in group farms on land more suitable for efficient farming.
The program failed because farmers wanted ownership. When the Conservative Coalition took control of it. The FSA was transformed into a program to help poor farmers buy land. The operation has continued into the 21st century as the Farmers Home Administration.
The FSA is also well-known for its highly influential photography program, 1935–44, that portrayed the challenges of rural poverty.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Farm_Security_Administration
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/fsahtml/fsainfo.html
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