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===Photography program===

The RA and FSA are well known for the influence of their photography program, 1935–1944. Photographers and writers were hired to report and document the plight of poor farmers.  The Information Division (ID) of the FSA was responsible for providing educational materials and press information to the public. Under [[Roy Stryker]], the ID of the FSA adopted a goal of "introducing America to Americans." Many of the most famous Depression-era photographers were fostered by the FSA project. [[Walker Evans]], [[Dorothea Lange]], and [[Gordon Parks]] were three of the most famous FSA alumni.<ref>{{Cite book|title=Encyclopedia of Journalism|url=https://archive.org/details/encyclopediajour00ster_321|url-access=limited|last=Hudson|first=Berkley|publisher=SAGE|year=2009|isbn=978-0-7619-2957-4|editor-last=Sterling|editor-first=Christopher H.|location=Thousand Oaks, Calif.|pages=[https://archive.org/details/encyclopediajour00ster_321/page/n1094 1060]–67}}</ref> The FSA was also cited in Gordon Parks' autobiographical novel, ''A Choice of Weapons''.

The FSA's photography was one of the first large-scale visual documentations of the lives of African-Americans.<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Cossu-Beaumont |first1=Laurence |title=Twelve Million Black Voices: Let Us Now Hear Black Voices |journal=Transatlantica |date=30 December 2014 |issue=2 |doi=10.4000/transatlantica.7232|doi-access=free }}</ref> These images were widely disseminated through the ''[[Twelve Million Black Voices]]'' collection, published in October 1941, which combined FSA photographs selected by [[Edwin Rosskam]] and text by author and poet [[Richard Wright (author)|Richard Wright]].