Documenting the Face of America:Roy Stryker and the FSA/OWI Photographers

by Patti Hasanbasic

Documenting the Face of America (Check title for availability)
2008
60 Minutes

A dramatic story of how an unlikely group worked together for social change and ended up creating one of the most astonishing portraits of America ever compiled. The Farm Security Administration /Office of War Information photographic archive chronicled the heartbreak of the Dust Bowl era through the forced relocation of Japanese-Americans at the outset of WWII. This vast collection of photographs remains hauntingly relevant to our lives today.

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