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546 An American Dilemma
To this practically new group of officials belong the relief administra-
tor,®* the county farm agent, the Farm Security supervisor, the home
demonstration agent, and the doctors and nurses of local health programs.
Some of these have Negro assistants to handle Negro cases, but many
including even the Farm Security Administration, which is one of the
forest of the New Deal agencies—^restrict their personnel to whites. In
the F.S.A. this is “. . . a concession which the agency felt obliged to make to
ensure its being allowed to serve the pro rata number of Negro families.”®®
The New Deal has not succeeded in stamping out discrimination against
Negroes in its agencies in the South, but it has brought discrimination
within some limits, and it has given the Negroes a new type of contact with
public authority: educated and trained white men and women whose
primary interest is not simply to keep them in their place, but to advise
them and help them to a better life. This will, in time, stand out as a social
and spiritual revolution.
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