Farm Security Administration

Baldwin, S. (1968). Poverty and politics The rise and decline of the farm security administration. Chapel HiU, NC The University of North Carolina Press. 

Bond drew the plight of the Wilson family to the attention of Will Alexander, head of the Farm Security Administration. Doctor Will was the leading figure in the interracial movement of the interwar era director of the Commission on Interracial Cooperation, trustee of the Rosenwald Fund, and the first president of Dillard University. But all Alexander offered was a modest donation, in the name of the CIC, toward the NAACP s defense of Luther Wilson. Should Wilson s lawyers choose to forgo his fee, Alexander noted, the money saved could be used in helping Mr. [John] Wilson to get started elsewhere. ... 

Mrs. Freddye E. Henderson, interviewed by Adam Fairclough, April 10, 1995, Atlanta Bond to W. P. Dabney, March zo, 1935, and Edwin Embree to Bond, June zo, 1935, part z, reel 30, Bond Papers. He mailed similar pleas to W. R. Banks, president of Prairie View College in Texas Estelle Massey Riddle, president of the National Association of Colored Graduate Nurses and a Rosenwald Explorer in Calhoun, Louisiana Edwin Embree, president of the Rosenwald Fund and Will Alexander, head of the Farm Security Administration. 

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