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Photographer: Sandra Hughes
Taken: June 19, 2012
Caption: Jimmy Carter's Boyhood Farm
Additional Description: This is the farm where Jimmy Carter spent his youth. On this farm he learned the value of hard work, honesty, and woking with others regardless of the color of their skin. These lessons would serve him well later in life. Great Depression The Great Depression affected the South deeply. Farmers and their hired hands were forced to work harder and plant more cotton, and other cash crops in an effort to make their mortgage payments. After the election of Franklin D. Roosevelt his New Deal programs changed the lives of the ordinary citizen. One of these "New Deal" programs was production control, where by young animals and farm crops were destroyed. "My Daddy felt this was a sin and never voted for Franklin Roosevelt again." Jimmy Carter recalls.
Submitted: June 25, 2012, by Sandra Hughes Tidwell of Killen, Alabama, USA.
Database Locator Identification Number: p209322
File Size: 1.624 Megabytes

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