Federal Writers Project Records, 1936

Federal writer's project

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Hinton was a former slave who was living in North Carolina at the time of the interview. From the guide to the Martha Adeline Hinton interview, 1937, (L. Tom Perry Special Collections) One of the first actions by President Franklin D. Roosevelt during the Great Depression of the 1930s was to extend federal work relief to the unemployed. One such relief program was the Works Progress Administration, which FDR established in 1933. By 1941 the WPA had provided empl...

Estavan, Lawrence

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Wilhelmson, Carl

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Quince, Peter

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Harrison, Alan

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Kinkead, Rubin

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Romain, Richard

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Sachs, Ida Faye

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Rexroth, Kenneth, 1905-1982

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Born Dec. 22, 1905 in South Bend, IN; campaigned for many radical groups, particularly the Wobblies (Industrial Workers of the World), and espoused eroticism and general anarchy; influenced by poet William Carlos Williams and the Second Chicago Renaissance; founded San Francisco Poetry Center with Lawrence Ferlinghetti and Allen Ginsberg; although his Bohemian lifestyle was emulated by Beats, he did not like the movement for its artistic excess and lack of rigor; noted as an accomplished painter...

Warner, W. E.

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Van Ghent, Dorothy

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Sawvelle, Dorothea

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Dorais, Leon

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Wilkins, Margaret

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Hamilton, Ben

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de Ford, Miriam

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Talbot, J. Rand

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Sabsay, Nahum, 1890-

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Born in Simferopol on the Russian Crimean peninsula, Sabsay (d.1965) survived the pogrom of 1905 and served in the Russian and Belgian armies in WWI. Fleeing the Red Army as commander of a Jewish self-defense unit, he traveled across Siberia and arrived in the U.S. in 1918. After working for a year, he entered Harvard to study mining engineering and graduated in 1923. He settled in California, working as a tool and die and instrument maker while writing novels, short stories, and essays in Engli...

Bode, Norman

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Hutchinson, Robert, 1948-....

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Larsson, Raymond

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Nelson, Catherine (Catherine C.)

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Epithet: wife of Major -General R T Nelson British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000001297.0x0003df ...