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TITLE: Children of the Depression
SPEAKER: Kathleen Thompson, Hilary Mac Austin
EVENT DATE: 02/12/2002
RUNNING TIME: 58 minutes
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During the Depression, Roy Emerson Stryker, head of the Farm Security Administration Historical Section, hired some of the best photographers in the United States?including Dorothea Lange, Gordon Parks, Walker Evans, Ben Shahn, Marion Post Walcott, John Delano, John Vachon, and Arthur Rothstein?to record the state of the country during its direst days.
Speaker Biography: Kathleen Thompson and Hilary Austin are also coeditors of "The Face of Our Past: Images of Black Women from Colonial America to the Present." They are founding members of the organization OneHistory, which is dedicated to making heard the many voices of American history.
Speaker Biography: Kathleen Thompson and Hilary Austin are also coeditors of "The Face of Our Past: Images of Black Women from Colonial America to the Present." They are founding members of the organization OneHistory, which is dedicated to making heard the many voices of American history.
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