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Politics, Government, and Law

 Subject
Subject Source: Cclabroad

Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:

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 Alabama

T. Pat Matthews interview with Zeb Crowder

 File — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197230346675]
Identifier: MSS 2926
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: 1937
Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections / T. Pat Matthews interview with Zeb Crowder

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