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Civic Activism

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Subject Source: Cclanarrow

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T. Pat Matthews interview with Dorcas Griffeth

 File — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197230345917]
Identifier: MSS 2906
Scope and Contents

Photocopy of a microfilmed copy of a typescript of an interview. Griffeth 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. Griffeth talks about her old master and plantation, about bad treatment, and about when the Yankees came through North Carolina. Mainly, she explains how bad her circumstances were at the time of the interview.

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

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