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Tennessee Valley Authority ( (en.wikipedia.org)

submitted 13 hours ago* (last edited 13 hours ago) by Plum@lemmy.world to c/wikipedia@lemmy.world

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I found out about this from a government staffing post on !mildlyinteresting@lemmy.world. The TVA started as a New Deal regional modernization project in the 50's, and has a mildly interesting history. Very good.

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[–] dgdft@lemmy.world 6 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

The TVA is super fucked from an environmental and civil liberties perspective, and has long been a folk-culture boogeyman for that reason.

Lots of poor working-class people were kicked off land that had been in the family for generations with zero recourse and very little compensation.

[–] DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social 5 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

Shockingly, it also disproportionately affected black landowners!

[–] Plum@lemmy.world 2 points 11 hours ago

It's shocking that the government could do such a thing. I'm shocked. Shook, even.