TVA (Tennessee Valley Authority)

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Cards (9)

  • What does the TVA stand for?
    The Tennessee Valley Authority
  • When was the TVA set up?
    May 1933
  • Which states did the TVA effect?

    States which the Tennessee River ran through such as Alabama, Mississippi and Tennessee
  • What did the TVA aim to do?
    Revitalise the economy of impoverished Southern states through food control, electricity and employment
  • How were TVA workers disadvantaged?
    They were given segregated facilities and accommodation, restricted to unskilled jobs, given limited access to new housing and excluded from model farm programmes
  • Who was the TVA's black Supervisor of Negro training?
    Max Bond
  • How did Max Bond improve the situation of the TVA?
    He leaked discriminatory practices to the NAACP
  • What did the NAACP do to help the TVA?
    They published an expose which prompted a congressional committee call for improved treatment of black workers
  • What did the TVA set up?
    It set up hydroelectric dams in order to create employment