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Tennessee Valley Authority ( (en.wikipedia.org)

submitted 1 hour ago* (last edited 1 hour 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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[–] melsaskca@lemmy.ca 4 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

I don't know why but this reminded me of..."The day my mama socked it to the Tennessee Valley Authority".

[–] dgdft@lemmy.world 3 points 33 minutes 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 3 points 18 minutes ago

Shockingly, it also disproportionately affected black landowners!