Oral history interview with Martha Bryant Allen, 1937.

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Oral history interview with Martha Bryant Allen, 1937.

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Photocopy of a microfilmed copy of a typescript of an interview. Allen was interviewed by Mary A. Hicks on 7 June 1937 as part of a Federal Writer's Project assignment for the Works Progress Administration. The item includes handwritten corrections. Allen talks about her mixed-ethnic background, how hard the slave women had to work, the "carpet gitters" who pursued slave women, and the Ku Klux Klan.

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Harold B. Lee Library

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United States. Works Progress Administration

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Organizational History President Franklin D. Roosevelt established the Works Progress Administration (WPA) in 1935 as a part of his New Deal to curtail the Depression's effects on the United States. The WPA attempted to provide the unemployed with jobs that allowed individuals to preserve skills or talents. The Federal Writers' Project (FWP), one branch of the WPA, provided work for over 6,600 unemployed writers, journalists, edit...

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...

Hicks, Mary

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Graduated from Cornell with a degree in architecture shortly after 1877. From the description of Mary Hicks Letters, to M. Carey Thomas, 1877-1878. (Cornell University Library). WorldCat record id: 63540937 ...

Allen, Martha Bryant, b. ca. 1859,

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Allen was a former slave living in North Carolina. From the description of Oral history interview with Martha Bryant Allen, 1937. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 367738647 From the description of Interview, 1937. (Brigham Young University). WorldCat record id: 54478335 ...