If you were a rural dweller during the 1930’s, how would your living conditions be? Even though 90 percent of urban dwellers had electricity, only 10 percent of rural dwellers did. Could you believe how much your life would change if all of a sudden you could have electrical tools running on your farm?
The TVA was the organization that was changing people’s lives in the Tennessee Valley. The Tennessee Valley Authority’s slogan was “Electricity for all”, and that’s what they did. By employing over 9,000 men to work on the dams, the TVA made a lot of the families’ lives i