Weiss manuscripts, ca. 1928-1946.
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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...
Weiss, George Henry, 1898-1946
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Biographical note: Writer; George Weiss was a poet, writer and novelist. His science fiction stories were published under the pseudonym "Francis Flagg" in various science fiction magazines. He lived in Tucson from 1928 until 1942. Many of his science fiction stories are set in the Tucson area, and most of them were written in Tucson. He also worked for the Works Project Administration (WPA) Writers Project in the 1930s, gathering histories of Calabasas, Tucson pioneers, and Santa Cruz and Cochis...
Flagg, Francis, 1898-1946
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