Federal Writers' Project
Found in 58 Collections and/or Records:
Mary A. Hicks interview with Henry Bobbitt
Mary A. Hicks interview with Herndon Bogan
Mary A. Hicks interview with Jerry Davis
Photocopy of a microfilmed copy of a typescript of an interview. Davis was interviewed by Mary A. Hicks in 1937 as part of the Federal Writer's Project for the Works Progress Administration. The item includes handwritten corrections. Davis talks about life on the plantation.
Mary A. Hicks interview with John Beckwith
Mary A. Hicks interview with John Coggin
Photocopy of a microfilmed copy of a typescript of an interview. Coggin was interviewed by Mary A. Hicks in 1937 as part of the Federal Writer's Project for the Works Progress Administration. The item includes handwritten corrections. Coggin said he was given enough food and clothing on the plantation, but he never had shoes. He stated that his master came to visit his former slaves on the day he died.
Mary A. Hicks interview with Julia Crenshaw
Photocopy of a microfilmed copy of a typescript of an interview. Crenshaw was interviewed by Mary A. Hicks in 1937 as part of the Federal Writer's Project for the Works Progress Administration. The item includes handwritten corrections. Crenshaw gives an account of her mother's experience as a slave.
Mary A. Hicks interview with Laura Bell
Photocopy of a microfilmed copy of a typescript of an interview. Bell was interviewed by Mary A. Hicks in 1937 as part of the Federal Writer's Project for the Works Progress Administration. The item includes handwritten corrections. Bell tells of the courting relationship of her parents and how they came to be married. She relates her own marriage story as well.
Mary A. Hicks interview with Lucy Brown
Mary A. Hicks interview with Mary Barbour
Photocopy of a microfilmed copy of a typescript of an interview. Barbour was interviewed by Mary A. Hicks in 1937 as part of the Federal Writer's Project for the Works Progress Administration. The item includes handwritten corrections. Barbour relates the story of her family's escape at the end of the Civil War. They were "reffes who fled to Roanoke, Virginia, so thay they could [join] the Yankees."
Mary A. Hicks interview with Mattie Curtis
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