Leona Spaht Huff oral history interview, 1995.

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Leona Spaht Huff oral history interview, 1995.

Huff discusses her family's life on their farm near Albany, Missouri; her early education in Albany; the family's move to Baton Rouge, Louisiana, and their farm on Highland Road; the children's attendance at LSU; her study of home economics; student life at LSU; and her work for the Emergency Relief Administration during the Depression.

1 sound cassette (45 minutes);Transcript (44 leaves)

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The T. Harry Williams Center for Oral History was established in August 1991 to document the history of Louisiana State University. A department of LSU Libraries Special Collections, the Center conducts, collects, preserves, and makes available to scholars oral history interviews on Louisiana's social, political, cultural, and economic history. From the description of T. Harry Williams Center for Oral History records, 1990-1998. (Louisiana State University). WorldCat record id: 22696...

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Louisiana State University and Agricultural and Mechanical College

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In order to counteract the effects of the Depression, the Federal Government founded numerous agencies geared at lowering unemployment and boosting the economy. Among these were the Federal Emergency Relief Administration (FERA), created on May 12, 1933; the Civil Works Administration (CWA), established on November 9, 1933; and the Works Progress Administration (WPA-1), established on May 6, 1935. The Civil Works Administration was abolished in March, 1934, with its functions and records transfe...