Record Group 33 - Records of the Extension Service
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The Extension Service coordinates extension activities of the Department of Agriculture with those of state agricultural colleges. Beginning in 1905, the Department of Agriculture showed an increasing interest in the development of extension activities among black farmers. With funding from the General Education board, a private institution, two Africann American agents were employed in 1906, and the number increased rapidly thereafter. The subsidies made by this board to farm demonstration work in the early 1900s did much to extend and popularize the movement.
Clusters: Agriculture
Textual Records
Annual Narrative and Statistical Reports, 1911-1966
National Archives Identifier: 251659
Indexed by: National Indexes to Annual Narrative Reports of Field Workers, 1924–1928 ( NAID 821376)
General Correspondence [Extension Service], 1944–1949
National Archives Identifier: 1687925
General Correspondence [of the Extension Service and its Predecessors], 1907–1970
National Archives Identifier 569741
Records Relating to 4-H Special Programs, ca. 1921–ca. 1985
National Archives Identifier: 2770149
Moving Images
Helping Negroes to Become Better Farmers and Homemakers, 1921-1921
National Archives Identifier: 7134