“Every Child Needs a Good School Lunch.” 1944. War Food Administration. Propaganda Poster Collection, Washington State University Digital Archive.
The National School Lunch Program (NSLP) provided subsidies to school districts to provide free meals to all children. To receive the funds, school districts had to offer meals to poor children for free or reduced prices that conformed to the “recommended daily allowances” of the “Basic 7.”
Where is it located in the Museum?
Schoolchildren stand in line for lunch in Georgia, circa 1955. Photo by the U.S. Department of Agriculture, courtesy of Georgia Archives, Vanishing Georgia Collection, put246.
Bowing to southern segregationists, the NSLP allowed state and local governments to impose their own requirements for funding, allowing for discrimination and enabling districts where racial segregation prevailed to deny resources to schools with large numbers of students of color. These racialized barriers to access endured for decades.
Where is it located in the Museum?
Museum Map
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THE SNAP CAFÉ
AUDITORIUM
TERRACE RESTAURANT
The Hunger Museum
We Can Solve Hunger —
The Proof is in Our History
The Proof is in Our History
- 1.Welcome
- 2.Museum Lobby
- 3.The Age of Mass Migration - Landing
- 4.The Age of Mass Migration - Main
- 5.Immigration from Europe
- 6.Jane Addams and Hull House
- 7.A New Deal for Hungry Americans - Landing
- 8.A New Deal for Hungry Americans - Main
- 9.On the Breadline
- 10.An Unequal Recovery
- 11.How did the Food Stamp Program work?
- 12.1945-1965: WWII and the Paradoxes of the Postwar Era
- 13.Norman Rockwell, “Freedom From Want”
- 14.How did the National School Lunch Program work?
- 15.What were the structural limitations of the National School Lunch Program’s reach?
- 16.Hunger, Justice, and Civil Rights - Landing
- 17.Hunger, Justice, and Civil Rights - Main
- 18.Walk for Decent Welfare (Columbus, OH)
- 19.Televising the War on Hunger - Landing
- 20.Televising the War on Hunger - Main
- 21.CBS’s “Hunger in America”
- 22.President Lyndon B. Johnson
- 23.Senator George McGovern and Senator Robert Dole
- 24.Dr. Jean Mayer and the White House Conference
- 25.1975-1996: The Unmaking of the Great Society
- 26.Government Cheese
- 27.We Are the World
- 28.The Welfare Queen
- 29.Food Stamp “Fraud”
- 30.The Return of the Welfare Queen
- 31.Crises of New Proportions - Landing
- 32.Crises of New Proportions - Main
- 33.COVID-19
- 34.
- 35.Wishing Tree
- 36.Welcome to the SNAP Café
- 37.SNAP Cafe – Create a meal
- 38.End tour
MAZON: A Jewish Response to Hunger