The federal government established Flint River Farms in Macon County, Georgia as a planned farm community in 1938, one of thirteen all-Black communities in the rural South, where segregation still ruled despite the federal government’s pledge for equal access to relief programs.

The hub of this settlement was the Flint River Farms Community Center, where a home economics teacher offered evening classes for adults, such as that depicted here on the center’s front porch.

[Full title: "Home economics and home management class for adults, under supervision of Miss Evelyn M. Driver (standing in white uniform). Everything they make including the small handmade looms, utilizes materials of local origin as cornshucks, cane, flour and meal and feed sacks, etc."]