Robert Sonkin Alabama and New Jersey Collection 1937-1941 1941

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Robert Sonkin Alabama and New Jersey Collection 1937-1941 1941

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Correspondence, field notes, reports, recording logs, transcripts of song texts, and sound recordings of African American music traditions and folkways, collected by Robert Sonkin, primarily in Gee's Bend, Alabama, in 1941.

7 manuscript folders in 1 box; 64 12-inch acetate-aluminum discs

eng,

Archive of Folk Culture (U.S.)

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SNAC Resource ID: 6355957

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Moseley, Isom, interviewee.

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Sonkin, Robert, 1910-1980

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Biographical History Born in the Bronx, New York in 1911, Robert Sonkin was an educator, ethnographic researcher, and author. A graduate of the City College of New York and Columbia University, Sonkin taught at the Department of Public Speaking at City College from 1929 to 1976. In the late 1930s, he worked with Charles L. Todd, his colleague at the Department of Public Speaking, to document the experience of residents of the FSA migrant work...

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Colley, Nathaniel Sextus, 1918-

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The Farm Security Administration (FSA) was established within the United States Department of Agriculture to implement the provisions of the Bankhead-Jones Tenant Act of 1937. The agency also took over certain functions of its predecessor, the Resettlement Administration (RA). The FSA made available and administered long-term loans to tenants and sharecroppers, loaned funds to rural cooperatives, and operated camps for migrant farm workers. The FSA was abolished in 1946; the Farmers Home Adminis...

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