Born August 1888

Died 1952

Director of Women's Land Army, home economist

"We're working for Victory, too; growing food for ourselves and our countrymen. While other women work at machines and in factories—we're soldiers in overalls."
—Reprinted from "'To the Rescue of the Crops': The Women's Land Army During World War II"
Florence Hall. National Archives.

In April 1943 the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) announced the appointment of home economist Florence Hall as chief of the Women's Land Army (WLA). The goal of the WLA was to recruit and organize a large number of women to provide farm labor in place of the many farmers and hired hands who had joined the military or left home to take a job in a defense plant.

Hall had been serving as a senior home economist in the Extension Service of the U.S. Department of Agriculture...