The New Deal Farm Security Administration in the Lower Mississippi Delta:
Reading the Photographic Record
and

Legacy on the Land: New Deal Resettlement in the Mississippi Delta

by
Jane Adams
D. Gorton

References for talks, The New Deal Farm Security Administration in the Lower Mississippi Delta: Reading the Photographic Record (AHS meetings 2006) and Legacy on the Land: New Deal Resettlement in the Mississippi Delta (AFHVS meetings 2006)

Note: This is a preliminary bibliography and will be added to as research continues. A full article for publication in a scholarly journal is in preparation. 7-11-06

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