Federal Writers Project Collection 1935-1943.

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Federal Writers Project Collection 1935-1943.

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Included in the collection is correspondence by Federal Writers Project Director of Louisiana, Lyle Saxon data from 1935 through 1943. The bulk of the collection is typed accounts based on hundreds of interviews conducted with residents between the years of 1937 and 1941. Though many areas of Louisiana are covered in the interviews, the majority concern New Orleans and its vicinity. Some of the subjects covered include religion, past and present social conditions, ethnic customs, song lyrics, folkways and remedies, occupations, folklore and slave narratives. Also present are some typed copies of legal records and published works.

61 Record boxes (54 linear ft.)

Northwestern State University of Louisiana, Watson Library

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SNAC Resource ID: 7674420

Northwestern State University of Louisiana, Watson 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...

saxon, Lyle, 1891-1946

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Saxon, an LSU alumnus, was a resident of Baton Rouge, La. He was a historian as well as a writer of fiction. From the description of Lafitte the pirate, 1930-1932. (Louisiana State University). WorldCat record id: 262161478 Saxon, an LSU alumnus, was a resident of Baton Rouge. He was a historian and writer of fiction. From the description of Children of strangers, 1930-1937. (Louisiana State University). WorldCat record id: 262161476 Lyle Saxon was a fea...