The Farm Security Administration and Rural Rehabilitation in the South

This book fills an important void in the historical literature on New Deal reform and significantly updates Sidney Baldwin’s 1968 book on the FSA. Through the lens of the programs of the FSA, Charles Kenneth Roberts does an excellent job of relating how New Deal programs attempted to rehabilitate poor, rural southerners.” —Aaron D. Purcell, author of Arthur Morgan: A Progressive Vision for American Reform As the roaring twenties turned into the depressed thirties, southern farmers, far removed f