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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 52 Collections and/or Records:

Interviews with former slaves in North Carolina

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSS 2941
Scope and Contents

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.

Dates: 1937
Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections / Interviews with former slaves in North Carolina

Marjorie Jones interview with Sarah Gudger

 File — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197230346782]
Identifier: MSS 2919
Scope and Contents Photocopy of a microfilmed copy of a typescript of an interview. Gudger was interviewed by Marjorie Jones in 1937 as part of the Federal Writer's Project for the Works Progress Administration. The item includes handwritten corrections. Gudger was 121 at the time of the interview, and the incidents she refers to seem to make that age possible. She talks of how she was poorly treated, worked very hard, and lacked adequate food and clothing. She saw family members sold. Gudger never...
Dates: 1937
Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections / Marjorie Jones interview with Sarah Gudger

Marjorie Jones interview with W. L. Bost

 File — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197230345891]
Identifier: MSS 2883
Scope and Contents Photocopy of a microfilmed copy of a typescript of an interview. Bost was interviewed by Marjorie Jones in 1937 as part of the Federal Writer's Project for the Works Progress Administration. The item includes handwritten corrections. Bost gives a detailed description of the slave trade and quotes the "speculator" (auctioneer). He also talks about "paddyrollers" (slave catchers), whippings, and scare tactics of the Ku Klux Klan. "I know folks think the books tell the truth, but they...
Dates: 1937
Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections / Marjorie Jones interview with W. L. Bost

Travis Jordan interview with Hector Hamilton

 Collection — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197230346840]
Identifier: MSS 2921
Scope and Contents Photocopy of a microfilmed copy of a typescript of an interview. Hamilton was interviewed by Travis Jordan in 1937 as part of the Federal Writer's Project for the Works Progress Administration. The item includes handwritten corrections. Hamilton called the time before the Civil War the "good ole days." He said that the Yankees ransacked the plantation and tried to take diamond earrings from the master's wife. Hamilton had a "fighting gander" named General Lee that ran the soldiers off...
Dates: 1937
Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections / Travis Jordan interview with Hector Hamilton

Travis Jordan interview with Ida Adkins

 File — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197230346246]
Identifier: MSS 2866
Scope and Contents

Photocopy of a microfilmed copy of a typescript of an interview. Adkins was interviewed by Travis Jordan on June 1, 1937 as part of a Federal Writer's Project assignment for the Works Progress Administration. The item includes handwritten corrections. Adkins says that she was 8 years old in 1865 when the Yankees arrived. She tells about Union soldiers trying to steal from her master's farm. She adds that the Federal soldiers threatened her, and that she got bees to attack them.

Dates: 1937 June 1
Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections / Travis Jordan interview with Ida Adkins

Travis Jordan interview with Mary Wallace Bowe

 File — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197230346055]
Identifier: MSS 2898
Scope and Contents Photocopy of a microfilmed copy of a typescript of an interview. Bowe was interviewed by Travis Jordan in 1937 as part of the Federal Writer's Project for the Works Progress Administration. The item includes handwritten corrections. Bowe talks about her master going to the Civil War and when the Yankees invaded the plantation. She and the slaves hid and saved the jewelry and silver objects. She claims that Abraham Lincoln passed through the plantation as a spy and dressed like a...
Dates: 1937
Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections / Travis Jordan interview with Mary Wallace Bowe

T. Pat Matthews interview with Adeline Crump

 File — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197230346667]
Identifier: MSS 2927
Scope and Contents

Photocopy of a microfilmed copy of a typescript of an interview. Crump 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. Crump told about her parents experiences as they related them to her. The parents were given holidays and were allowed to hunt. Crump stated that slavery was bad because all slaves were not treated alike.

Dates: 1937
Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections / T. Pat Matthews interview with Adeline Crump

T. Pat Matthews interview with Andrew Boone

 File — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197230346410]
Identifier: MSS 2886
Scope and Contents Photocopy of a microfilmed copy of a typescript of an interview. Boone 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. Boone gives a description of the plantation work and living conditions of slaves. He also describes in detail slave sales and the grueling slave whippings. He adds that he was afraid of the Yankees during the Civil War and that after emancipation everything...
Dates: 1937
Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections / T. Pat Matthews interview with Andrew Boone

T. Pat Matthews interview with Charles W. Dickens

 File — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197230346444]
Identifier: MSS 2933
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. Dickens talks about life under slavery and how he looked down on the Yankee troops because they stole from the slaves.

Dates: 1937
Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections / T. Pat Matthews interview with Charles W. Dickens

T. Pat Matthews interview with Charlie H. Hunter

 File — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197230346949]
Identifier: MSS 2915
Scope and Contents

Photocopy of a microfilmed copy of a typescript of an interview. Hunter was interviewed by T. Pat Mattthews in 1937 as part of the Federal Writer's Project for the Works Progress Administration. The item includes handwritten corrections. Hunter says that his master forced him to watch his mother being whipped while he was still a small child. He talks about the Yankees and about life after the Civil War. He learned to read and write.

Dates: 1937
Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections / T. Pat Matthews interview with Charlie H. Hunter

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