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Civic Activism

 Subject
Subject Source: Cclanarrow

Found in 123 Collections and/or Records:

Helen Foster Snow files on Women in Modern China, approximately 1967

 Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS 2219 Series 3 Sub-Series 7
Scope and Contents note

"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.

Dates: Other: approximately 1967

Helen Foster Snow unpublished manuscripts about women, undated

 Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS 2219 Series 3 Sub-Series 12
Scope and Contents note

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.

Dates: Other: undated

Charles A. Henson Provo City Council papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 6000
Abstract

Correspondence, newspapers, and other papers of Charles Henson while he served on the Provo City Council.

Dates: 1969-1989

Edith S. Hibbs interview with Alex Huggins

 File — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197230346956]
Identifier: MSS 2914
Scope and Contents

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.

Dates: 1937

Mary A. Hicks interview with Alice Baugh

 File — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197230346295]
Identifier: MSS 2890
Scope and Contents Photocopy of a microfilmed copy of a typescript of an interview. Baugh 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. Baugh tells stories as related by her mother who was a slave. Alice claims that life under slavery was a happy and prosperous time. She says that slaves cried from sorrow when emancipated and that they sang, "We'll hang Abe Lincoln on de Sour Apple Tree." ...
Dates: 1937

Mary A. Hicks interview with Baker Blount

 File — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197230345867]
Identifier: MSS 2880
Scope and Contents

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.

Dates: 1937

Mary A. Hicks interview with Bill Crump

 File — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197230346576]
Identifier: MSS 2928
Scope and Contents

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.

Dates: 1937

Mary A. Hicks interview with Charlie Barbour

 File — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197230346394]
Identifier: MSS 2888
Scope and Contents Photocopy of a microfilmed copy of a typescript of an interview. Barbour 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. Barbour talks about slave dances, "corn shuckin's," and not being able to swim. He remembers the Yankees entering and ransacking the plantation. He was happy to be free and escape the fear of being sold. He said he did well after emancipation. "I'se...
Dates: 1937

Mary A. Hicks interview with Cornelia Andrews

 File — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197230346113]
Identifier: MSS 2873
Scope and Contents

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.

Dates: 1937

Mary A. Hicks interview with Eustace Hodges

 File — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197230346964]
Identifier: MSS 2913
Scope and Contents

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.

Dates: 1937