“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?
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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.Jewish Immigration from Eastern Europe
- 4.Immigration from Europe – for tours
- 5.Immigration from Europe
- 6.Jane Addams and Hull House
- 7.The Dark Side of Nutrition Science
- 8.On the Breadline
- 9.Beginnings
- 10.How did the Food Stamp Program work?
- 11.Farm Family Portraits Pic 2 for Tours
- 12.An Unequal Recovery
- 13.1945-1965: WWII and the Paradoxes of the Postwar Era
- 14.Norman Rockwell, “Freedom From Want”
- 15.How did the National School Lunch Program work?
- 16.What were the structural limitations of the National School Lunch Program’s reach?
- 17.What were the structural limitations of the National School Lunch Program’s reach? Pic 2 for tours
- 18.“New Frigidaire Refrigerators!” by General Motors
- 19.Hunger, Justice, and Civil Rights - Landing
- 20.Hunger, Justice, and Civil Rights - Main
- 21.Lunch Counter Student Sit-Ins (Greensboro, NC)
- 22.Fannie Lou Hamer and Freedom Farmers (Sunflower County, MS)
- 23.The Fish Wars (Nisqually, WA)
- 24.Cesar Chavez’s Fast for Nonviolence (Delano, CA)
- 25.Fannie Lou Hamer on CBS News Series “Of Black America”
- 26.President Lyndon B. Johnson
- 27.Senator George McGovern and Senator Robert Dole
- 28.Lyndon B. Johnson
- 29.Dr. Jean Mayer and the White House Conference
- 30.1975-1996: The Unmaking of the Great Society
- 31.Government Cheese
- 32.The Welfare Queen
- 33.Welfare Reform
- 34.COVID-19 – 2nd photo for tours
- 35.Wishing Tree
- 36.End tour
MAZON: A Jewish Response to Hunger