Grace McCune papers, 1938-1939.

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Grace McCune papers, 1938-1939.

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The collection consists of the notebooks kept by Grace McCune during the time she was employed by the Federal Writers Project in Athens, Georgia. Also included are copies of many of her interviews. Several of these show editorial remarks by her supervisor. A small part of the collection involves educational classes taken by Grace McCune.

90 items (0.5 linear feet).

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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...

Georgia Writers' Project

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McCune, Grace, 1899-

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Grace McCune was born in November 29, 1899 to the parents of Daniel J. McCune and Gertrud McCune. As far as her social security number shows, she was born in New Jersey. She lived with her parents and grandfather John McCune. It seems that her mother died fairly early on in her life since she does no appear in the city directories past the year of 1925. She lived with her father who was an Athens Police officer and her grandfather who was a plumber and later became a sales clerk for...