Leonard Rapport papers, undated.

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Leonard Rapport papers, undated.

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Draft of an essay entitled "People of Tobacco," written by Rapport and others for the North Carolina Federal Writers' Project. Topics covered in the essay include market days, tobacco cultivation, the history of tobacco in North Carolina from the Colonial period to the 1900s, the development of Durham and Winston-Salem as tobacco towns and the influence of the Duke and Reynolds families, and the influence of technology. Also included in the collection are drafts of life history interviews, clippings, and publications about tobacco cultivation and manufacture.

About 50 items (0.5 linear ft.).

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

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SNAC Resource ID: 7160767

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...

Reynolds family.

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Duke family.

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Rapport, Leonard, 1913-2008

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