Wayne Moore
Southern Exposure Contributor
Wayne Moore, Ph.D., is an archivist at Tennessee State Library and Archives who teaches history at Tennessee State University. His dissertation, “TVA and Farm Communities of the Lower Tennessee Valley, ” was written under Christopher Lasch at the University of Rochester. Moore’s father, Robert Leslie Moore, was forced to sell his farmland in “Big Bottom,” near Hustburg, Tennessee, to TVA in 1942. (1995)
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Articles by Wayne Moore
August 1, 1995 -
In 1933, TVA planners saw the problems of the South in terms of too many rural-living people and not enough industry. The solution looked simple — if they could disregard the property rights of rural communities.
