United States. Works Progress Administration
Biography
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.
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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 64 Collections and/or Records:
Mary A. Hicks interview with Milly Henry
Photocopy of a microfilmed copy of a typescript of an interview. Henry 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. Henry was on a plantation in Mississippi but was moved to North Carolina when the Union Army approached. She was in Raleigh at the end of the Civil War and saw a Confederate soldier hanged for shooting at the Union forces and then laughing about it.
Mary A. Hicks interview with Sarah Harris
Photocopy of a microfilmed copy of a typescript of an interview. Harris 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. Harris says that after the Civil War, she wanted to remain on the plantation because she was hungry and because she loved her "white folks." She tells how she and her mother worked hard after emancipation to buy land and build a home.
Mary A. Hicks interviews with Midge Burnett
Photocopy of a microfilmed copy of a typescript of an interview. Burnett 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. Burnett talks about his work as a slave and also tells what the slaves did for recreation. He claims that the master only hit one slave once, and he gives an account of that occurrence.
T. Pat Matthews interview with Martha Adeline Hinton
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 relates accounts given to her by her mother. Hinton says her family did reasonably well as slaves and tells how her father avoided being both sold and whipped.
Henry Bobbitt interview
Interview with Joseph Anderson
Photocopy of a microfilmed copy of a typescript of an interview. Anderson was interviewed by Edith S. Hibbs in 1937 as part of a Federal Writer's Project assignment for the Works Progress Administration. The item includes handwritten corrections. Anderson was freed from slavery when he was 14. He was married twice and worked on a police force and as a "stevedore."
Interviews with former slaves in Alabama
Photocopies of microfilmed copies of typewritten interviews. These interviews were conducted under the authority of the Federal Writers' Project for the WPA. The former slaves discuss their earlier experiences in servitude. They talk about being made free and their encounters with the Ku-Klux Klan (1866-1869).
Interviews with former slaves in North Carolina
Photocopies of microfilmed copies of typescripts of interviews. These interviews were conducted in 1937 as part of the Federal Writer's Project for the Works Progress Administration. The items include handwritten corrections. Former slaves in North Carolina were interviewed, and they tell about their experiences as slaves and after they were made free.
Interviews with former slaves in Oklahoma
Photocopies of a microfilmed copy of typewritten interviews. Former slaves living in Oklahoma were interviewed about their experiences while in bondage. Some of them tell about their experiences with the Ku-Klux Klan.
Interviews with former slaves living in Ohio
Photocopies of microfilmed copies of typewritten interviews. These items are interviews with former slaves living in Ohio in 1937. Some of them tell about their experiences with the Ku-Klux Klan.