Square dance
Letting loose in the Dust Bowl, amidst hard times.
Alex Q. Arbuckle
1940
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In the midst of the Great Depression, the United States government created the Farm Security Administration (FSA) to address the poverty of rural farmers, migrants and sharecroppers.The FSA hired Roy Stryker to send out a small group of photographers to document the way of life in the Dust Bowl, a region located in the central plains and prairies of the country. These photographers, including Walker Evans and Dorothea Lange, created an iconic record of the poverty and struggle of the time. They also captured moments of joy and community. Here, Russell Lee photographs a square dance in a tarpaper shack in McIntosh County, Oklahoma.
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