Interview, 1937.

  1. Resources
  2. View Resource

ArchivalResource

Interview, 1937.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/54793148

Photocopy of a microfilmed copy of a typescript of an interview. Gudger was interviewed by Marjorie Jones in 1937 as part of the Federal Writer's Project for the Works Progress Administration. The item includes handwritten corrections. Gudger was 121 at the time of the interview, and the incidents she refers to seem to make that age possible. She talks of how she was poorly treated, worked very hard, and lacked adequate food and clothing. She saw family members sold. Gudger never slept on a mattress until freedom. Her master's wife denied her permission to see her mother's body when she died.

1 item (9 p.)

Harold B. Lee Library

Information

SNAC Resource ID: 7681724

Related Entities

There are 4 Entities related to this resource.

United States. Works Progress Administration

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w67b4x1k (corporateBody)

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

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6r031x9 (corporateBody)

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...

Jones, Marjorie Hurt

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6km0xss (person)

Gudger, Sarah, 1816-

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w63f68xx (person)

Gudger was a former slave who was living in North Carolina at the time of the interview. The interviewer did not doubt that Gudger was born in 1816 making her 121 years old at the time of the interview. From the description of Interview, 1937. (Brigham Young University). WorldCat record id: 54793148 ...