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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 75 Collections and/or Records:

Henry Bobbitt interview

 File — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSS SC 2896
Scope and Contents Photocopy of a microfilmed copy of a typescript of an interview. Bobbitt 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. Bobbitt tells about working and living conditions on the plantation. The slaves were not allowed to read and write or attend church. He talks about the slave trade and marriages. He thinks Lincoln was cruel for emancipating salves and not giving them a...
Dates: 1937
Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections

Interview with Joseph Anderson

 File — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197230346220]
Identifier: MSS 2868
Scope and Contents

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."

Dates: 1937
Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections

Interviews with former slaves in Alabama

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSS 2959
Scope and Contents

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).

Dates: 1937
Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections

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 Oklahoma

 Collection — Box 1: [Barcode: 31197231043438]
Identifier: MSS 2944
Scope and Contents

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.

Dates: 1937
Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections

Interviews with former slaves living in Ohio

 Collection — Box 1: [Barcode: 31197231043446]
Identifier: MSS 2945
Scope and Contents

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.

Dates: 1937
Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections

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 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

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 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

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