T. Pat Matthews interview with Zeb Crowder
Scope and Contents
Photocopy of a microfilmed copy of a typescript of an interview. Crowder 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. Crowder said that the time spent on the plantation was a happy time. He described both slave labor and recreation and talked about the Ku-Klux Klan.
Dates
- Creation: 1937
Creator
- United States. Works Progress Administration (Organization)
- Matthews, T. Pat, 1883-1958 (Person)
- Federal Writers' Project (Organization)
- Crowder, Zeb (Person)
Conditions Governing Access
Open for public research.
Conditions Governing Use
It is the responsibility of the researcher to obtain any necessary copyright clearances. Permission to publish material from Interview must be obtained from the Supervisor of Reference Services and/or the L. Tom Perry Special Collections Board of Curators.
Biographical / Historical
Crowder was a former slave who was living in North Carolina at the time of the interview.
Extent
1 item (6 pages)
Language of Materials
English
Custodial History
This item was photocopied from reel 79 of the 920 microfilm collection. SCM 000 323. Andronicus Publ. Co., 1941. Five reels of microfilm were purchased for $115 in 1971
Immediate Source of Acquisition
Purchased from; Andronicus Publ. Co.; 1971
Appraisal
19th Century Western and Mormon Manuscripts.
Subject
- Ku Klux Klan (1866-1869) (Organization)
- Title
- Register of T. Pat Matthews interview with Zeb Crowder
- Status
- Completed
- Author
- Rose Frank
- Date
- 20 May 2011
- Description rules
- Appm
- Language of description
- English
- Script of description
- Latin
- Language of description note
- Finding aid written in English in Latin script.
Repository Details
Part of the L. Tom Perry Special Collections Repository
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Brigham Young University
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