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United States. Works Progress Administration

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The Works Progress Administration was a government agency involved in public works programs. The agency was established in 1935 as part of the New Deal, and employed millions of Americans. The program was renamed the Work Projects Administration in 1939.

Citation:
Encylopedia Brittanica, via www, February 2, 2022 (The Works Progress Administration was a government agency involved in public works programs. The agency was established in 1935 as part of the New Deal, and employed millions of Americans. The program was renamed the Work Projects Administration in 1939)

Found in 58 Collections and/or Records:

T. Pat Matthews interview with Joe High

 File — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197230346790]
Identifier: MSS 2918
Scope and Contents

Photocopy of a microfilmed copy of a typescript of an interview. High was interviewed by T. Pat Matthews in 1937 as part of the Federal Writer's Project for the Works Progress Administration. The item includes handwritten corrections. High talks about plantation life and tells of what he saw and experienced as a slave child. He says that his master fed and clothed him well and that he was content with slavery. He talks about the Yankees and the master's wife.

Dates: 1937

T. Pat Matthews interview with John C. Bectom

 File — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197230346279]
Identifier: MSS 2892
Scope and Contents Photocopy of a microfilmed copy of a typescript of an interview. Bectom was interviewed by T. Pat Matthews in 1937 as part of the Federal Writer's Project for the Works Progress Administration. The item includes handwritten corrections. Bectom tells about how his parents and grandparents were treated by different masters. He says he was well fed and taken care of as a slave. He adds that slaves had prayer meetings but did not attend church. Bectom was taught how to read and write by...
Dates: 1937

T. Pat Matthews interview with Kitty Hall

 File — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197230345933]
Identifier: MSS 2904
Scope and Contents

Photocopy of a microfilmed copy of a typescript of an interview. Hill was interviewed by T. Pat Matthews in 1937 as part of the Federal Writer's Project for the Works Progress Administration. The item includes handwritten corrections. Hill shares information related to her by her mother. His mother claimed that she was treated well except by "patterollers," and tells of the Yankees at the planatation. Hill also tells about the Ku Klux Klan.

Dates: 1937

T. Pat Matthews interview with Lizzie Baker

 File — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197230345859]
Identifier: MSS 2881
Scope and Contents

Photocopy of a microfilmed copy of a typescript of an interview. Baker was interviewed by T. Pat Matthews in 1937 as part of the Federal Writer's Project for the Works Progress Administration. The item includes handwritten corrections. Baker relates stories about her parents' desires for freedom and attempts to escape from slavery. She tells about siblings she never met because they were sold away, and she expresses great love for President Franklin Roosevelt.

Dates: 1937

T. Pat Matthews interview with Louisa Covington Adams

 File — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197230346253]
Identifier: MSS 2865
Scope and Contents Photocopy of a microfilmed copy of the typescript of an interview. Adams was interviewed by T. Pat Matthews on 7 June 1937 as part of a Works Progress Administration assignment. Adams tells about her experiences as a slave in North Carolina. Adams said that she was treated poorly, given little food, and few clothes. Slaves were not allowed to have fun, learn to read and write, or to go to church. They were given no holidays and were forced to work even after being badly whipped. She...
Dates: 1937 June 7

T. Pat Matthews interview with Margaret E. Dickens

 File — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197230346436]
Identifier: MSS 2934
Scope and Contents

Photocopy of a microfilmed copy of a typescript of an interview. Dickens was interviewed by T. Pat Matthews in 1937 as part of the Federal Writer's Project for the Works Progress Administration. The item includes handwritten corrections.

Dates: 1937

T. Pat Matthews interview with Mary Brodie Anderson

 File — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197230346139]
Identifier: MSS 2869
Scope and Contents Photocopy of a microfilmed copy of a typescript of an interview. Anderson was interviewed by T. Pat Matthews in 1937 as part of a Federal Writer's Project assignment for the Works Progress Administration. The item includes handwritten corrections. Anderson says that she was treated well as a slave. The slave children were allowed to eat with the master and family on Sundays. The slaves were well fed, well clothed, and had comfortable houses. The slave children loved and trusted their master,...
Dates: 1937

T. Pat Matthews interview with Robert Glenn

 File — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197230345925]
Identifier: MSS 2905
Scope and Contents Photocopy of a microfilmed copy of a typescript of an interview. Glenn was interviewed by T. Pat Matthews in 1937 as part of the Federal Writer's Project for the Works Progress Administration. The item includes handwritten corrections. Glenn gives a detailed account of how, at the age of 8 years, his master sold him away from his parents. His new master then took him to Kentucky, where his master's son taught him to read and write. After emancipation, he worked and saved his money until...
Dates: 1937

T. Pat Matthews interview with Robert Hinton

 File — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197230346907]
Identifier: MSS 2911
Scope and Contents

Photocopy of a microfilmed copy of a typescript of an interview. Hinton was interviewed by T. Pat Matthews in 1937 as part of the Federal Writer's Project for the Works Progress Administration. Hinton describes life on the plantation. He says that his master treated him well, and he talks about how he hunted, farmed, and entertained himself while a slave. He also describes his hardships at the time of the interview.

Dates: 1937

T. Pat Matthews interview with Sarah Louise Augustus

 File — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197230346006]
Identifier: MSS 2876
Scope and Contents Photocopy of a microfilmed copy of a typescript of an interview. Augustus was interviewed by T. Pat Mathews in 1937 as part of the Federal Writer's Project for the Works Progress Administration. The item includes handwritten corrections. Augustus describes what it was like being a child slave. She talks about her grandmother who cared for white babies as a wet nurse, and who cared for the dead. After the Civil War Augustus was always surrounded by "white folks," and she tried to live up to...
Dates: 1937