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Civil Rights

 Subject
Subject Source: Cclanarrow

Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:

Interviews with former slaves in North Carolina

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSS 2941
Scope and Contents

Photocopies of microfilmed copies of typescripts of interviews. These interviews were conducted in 1937 as part of the Federal Writer's Project for the Works Progress Administration. The items include handwritten corrections. Former slaves in North Carolina were interviewed, and they tell about their experiences as slaves and after they were made free.

Dates: 1937
Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections / Interviews with former slaves in North Carolina

Interviews with former slaves living in Ohio

 Collection — Box 1: [Barcode: 31197231043446]
Identifier: MSS 2945
Scope and Contents

Photocopies of microfilmed copies of typewritten interviews. These items are interviews with former slaves living in Ohio in 1937. Some of them tell about their experiences with the Ku-Klux Klan.

Dates: 1937
Found in: L. Tom Perry Special Collections / Interviews with former slaves living in Ohio

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