In 1937, in response to the economic hardships brought on by the Great Depression, the federal government established a cooperative land program in which Gee's Bend residents were given the opportunity to purchase and control the land they farmed for the first time.
Gee's Bend During the Great Depression
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Courtesy of the Library of Congress; photograph by Arthur Rothstein
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