Civic Activism
Found in 123 Collections and/or Records:
Helen Foster Snow files on Women in Modern China, approximately 1967
"Women in Modern China" was a book written by Helen Foster Snow (Nym Wales) that was published in 1967. Contains draft cuts, draft sections, loose chapters, and partial and complete drafts.
Helen Foster Snow unpublished manuscripts about women, undated
Contains original and carbon copies, annotated copies, photocopies, etc., of "A Charter for American Women"; "A Primer for Women: a Compendium of Writings About Women" and "A Primer for Women: Back to Basics Again"; "A Thesis for Women to Bridge the Conflict Between Identical "Equal" Rights and Different But Equivalent Rights for Women"; "The Status of Women"; "The Congress of Furious Women"; "Women and Autobiography"; and "The Early Years: 'Teens and 'Twenties." Undated.
Charles A. Henson Provo City Council papers
Correspondence, newspapers, and other papers of Charles Henson while he served on the Provo City Council.
Edith S. Hibbs interview with Alex Huggins
Photocopy of a microfilmed copy of a typescript of an interview. Huggins was interviewed by Edith S. Hibbs in 1937 as part of the Federal Writer's Project for the Works Progress Administration. Huggins claims that the stories of slave whippings are all "bunk," and says that his master treated him well. He tells of how he and his friends went out looking for adventure, so they ran off to sea. He tells of his service in the Union Navy and about his life at the time of the interview.
Mary A. Hicks interview with Alice Baugh
Mary A. Hicks interview with Baker Blount
Photocopy of a microfilmed copy of a typescript of an interview. Blount 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. Blount tells about prayer meetings and "corn shuckin's." He describes an unfriendly encounter with Union Soldiers. He stayed with his master until his master's death.
Mary A. Hicks interview with Bill Crump
Photocopy of a microfilmed copy of a typescript of an interview. Crump was interviewed by Hicks, Mary A. in 1937 as part of the Federal Writer's Project for the Works Progress Administration. The item includes handwritten corrections. Crump talked about the plantation where he was a slave. He said that he served time in prison for killing a man.
Mary A. Hicks interview with Charlie Barbour
Mary A. Hicks interview with Cornelia Andrews
Photocopy of a microfilmed copy of a typescript of an interview. Andrews 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. Andrews describes the Smithfield, North Carolina, slave market and tells stories of slave beatings, both her own and of others.She also makes references to slave breeding.
Mary A. Hicks interview with Eustace Hodges
Photocopy of a microfilmed copy of a typescript of an interview. Hodges was interviewed by Mary A. Hicks in 1937 as part of the Federal Writer's Project for the Works Progress Administration. Hodges gives a brief account of life on a plantation as a slave. She says that she was once whipped for hurting a frog.