Oral history interview with Clay Bobbitt, 1937.

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Oral history interview with Clay Bobbitt, 1937.

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Photocopy of a microfilmed copy of a typescript of an interview. Bobbitt was interviewed by Mary A. Hicks in 1937 as part of the Federal Writer's Project for the Works Progress Administration. The item includes handwritten corrections. Bobbitt was treated very poorly as a slave. He had little food and clothing and was allowed no diversions. His wife was sold months after their marriage. He also talks about "poor white trash," "Shim Sham," which were African Americans of mixed ancestry, and also of 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 ...

Bobbitt, Clay, b. 1837,

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Bobbitt was a former slave living in North Carolina. From the description of Oral history interview with Clay Bobbitt, 1937. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 367742780 From the description of Interview, 1937. (Brigham Young University). WorldCat record id: 54478337 ...