Arkansas Writers' Project ex-slave interviews, 1936-1941.

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Arkansas Writers' Project ex-slave interviews, 1936-1941.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/251462318

Includes abstracts of ex-slave interviews; a digest of the interviews; WPA correspondence on the interviews; and an index to the abstracts.

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Arkansas History Commission, Department of Archives and History

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SNAC Resource ID: 7141216

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United States. Work Projects Administration

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The Works Progress Administration was involved in various projects including the compilation of sources on American territories. The card catalogs for these were prepared at the Library of Congress and are now in the National Archives. From the description of Classified Alaska Bibliography, 1942. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 42927718 Works Progress Administration (later called Work Projects Administration) began operations in San Joaquin County, Calif., July 1935. County a...

Arkansas Writers' Project.

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The Arkansas Writers' Project was a unit of the nationwide Federal Writers' Project. It gave employment to an average of twenty-five unemployed writers, research assistants, and typists who were engaged in the preparation of projects that were to be of value to the community. These ex-slave interviews were conducted by the Arkansas Writers' Project beginning in 1936. A Survey of Negroes in Little Rock and North Little Rock was published as a result of this project. From the descripti...