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 75 Collections and/or Records:
Mary A. Hicks interview with John Daniels
Photocopy of a microfilmed copy of a typescript of an interview. Daniels 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. Daniels tells about how slaves cheered up one of their number.
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
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.