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FDR's Dust Bowl Farmers: The Resettlement Administration's Forgotten War — Fexingo History
May 10, 2026 ·
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FDR's Dust Bowl Farmers: The Resettlement Administration's Forgotten War — Fexingo History
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In 1935, as dust storms swallowed the Great Plains, FDR launched a quiet revolution: the Resettlement Administration. This episode follows the RA's controversial director, Rexford Tugwell, as he tried to...
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In 1935, as dust storms swallowed the Great Plains, FDR launched a quiet revolution: the Resettlement Administration. This episode follows the RA's controversial director, Rexford Tugwell, as he tried to relocate 200,000 desperate farm families onto cooperative homesteads. We visit the experimental Greenbelt towns—Greenbelt, Maryland; Greendale, Wisconsin; Greenhills, Ohio—where the government built model suburbs with shared green spaces. We explore the RA's photography project, which gave us iconic images like Dorothea Lange's 'Migrant Mother' and Arthur Rothstein's 'Fleeing a Dust Storm.' And we examine the political firestorm: critics called it socialism, farm bureaus fought relocation, and Congress eventually gutted the agency. But the RA's legacy lives on in the Farm Security Administration, which pioneered rural healthcare and low-interest loans for tenant farmers.
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#NewDeal #FDR #ResettlementAdministration #DustBowl #RexfordTugwell #GreenbeltTowns #FarmSecurityAdministration #DorotheaLange #MigrantMother #ArthurRothstein #GreatDepression #RuralAmerica #CooperativeFarming #Homesteading #NewDealPhotography #GreenbeltMaryland #History #FexingoHistory #FranklinRoosevelt #WPA
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