William Le Roy Vaughan papers, 1938-1979.

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William Le Roy Vaughan papers, 1938-1979.

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Correspondence and other papers relating to Vaughan's work with the Federal Writers' Project. Most correspondence is with George L. Andrews, assistant state director of the Federal Writers' Project. Other papers include material collected and written about Beaufort County history, sample life histories given to Vaughan as examples, a life history of a minister by Vaughan, and biographical and autobiographical material of Vaughan dealing with his Federal Writers' Project experience and other matters.

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University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

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University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

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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...

Andrews, George Lee

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Vaughan, William Le Roy, 1880-1956.

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Vaughan researched and wrote local history and life histories, 1930-1939, with the Federal Writers' Project in Beaufort County, N.C. From the description of William Le Roy Vaughan papers, 1938-1979. WorldCat record id: 25724832 William Le Roy Vaughan was born 29 January 1880 in Halifax County, North Carolina, the sixth child of Martha Gray and William Thomas Vaughan. Both Vaughan and his older brother received their bachelor's (1902) and master's (1906) degrees ...