A New Deal in Dyess: The Depression Era Agricultural Resettlement Colony in Arkansas

by Van Hawkins

This is the story of the Dyess Colony, created in 1934 as part of President Franklin D. Roosevelt's New Deal to aid in the nation's economic recovery from the Great Depression. As a federal agricultural resettlement community, it provided a fresh start for nearly 500 impoverished Arkansas farm families, including the family of music legend Johnny Cash. Genesis of this edition is a slender volume published in 2015 in conjunction with the opening...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 098639923X
• ISBN13: 9780986399237
• Release Date: April 2020
• Publisher: Writers Bloc
• Length: 178 Pages
• Weight: 0.81 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.0" x 9.0"