Records, 1936-1939, folklore Wisconsin [electronic resource]

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Records, 1936-1939, folklore Wisconsin [electronic resource]

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Typed notes from interviews conducted between 1936 and 1938 by field workers of the Works Progress Administration's (WPA) Federal Writers' Project.

ca. 470 leaves

Wisconsin historical society

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Wisconsin historical society

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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...