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Agricultural Adjustment Administration (view source)
Revision as of 02:34, September 18, 2007
, 02:34, September 18, 2007→Sharecroppers: edit
In the two years of the AAA’s existence it distributed some $700 million to farmers to restrict production and destroy their crops, in an attempt to make food (and textiles) dearer for consumers.
In the two years of the AAA’s existence it distributed some $700 million to farmers to restrict production and destroy their crops, in an attempt to make food (and textiles) dearer for consumers.
==Sharecroppers==
==Sharecroppers==
The AAA policies of the federal government intensified the already deepening misery of the southern sharecroppers.<ref>''Revolt Among the Sharecroppers.'' Howard Kester. Originally published 1936. New introduction by Alexander Lichtenstein. Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 1997. ISBN 978-0-87049-975-3. </ref>
The AAA policies of the federal government intensified the already deepening misery of the southern sharecroppers.<ref>''Revolt Among the Sharecroppers.'' Howard Kester. Originally published 1936. New introduction by Alexander Lichtenstein. Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 1997. ISBN 978-0-87049-975-3. </ref> Under the set-up devised by Secretary of Agriculture [[Henry Wallace]], the farm owner profited-at the expense of the sharecropper who was being dispossessed throughout the South and the West.
==Communist influence==
==Communist influence==