State publications, 1932-1935.

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State publications, 1932-1935.

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The function of this series is to document federal relief in Alabama. There is a biennial report, forms book, a publication of the same name describing the policies, organizations, and other aspects of the Alabama Relief Administration (ARA); a publication of the same name detailing various aspects of the Rural Rehabilitation Program, a research bulletin on landlord-tenant relations, and a field report on the Transient Bureau. Of particular interest is the organizational chart of the ARA, with B. M. Miller, Governor, and the ARA Board consisting of Algernon Blair, Donald Comer, John H. Peach, Gessner McCorvey, and Grover C. Hall, with Thad Holt as Director. The biennial report also contains information of note, including a map of FERA projects in Alabama, details about policy formulation and changes, and details about all of the various relief efforts in the forms of narratives, statistics, charts, and maps down to the county level. The field report of Ranald Savery to the Transient Bureau details his four weeks of travels through Alabama as a transient. He began in Mobile, traveled to Pensacola, Florida, then back into Alabama at Flomaton, Montgomery, Birmingham, Florence, Athens, Gadsden, back to Birmingham, Montgomery, and the Mobile area. The report is very specific and many stories about individuals are given in it.

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Alabama Department of Archives and History

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Alabama Department of Archives and History

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Holt, Thad, 1898-1984

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Thad Holt spent a lifetime in the field of broadcasting. Early in his career Holt started WAPI, the first radio station in Alabama. With the advent of FM radio, he expanded his operations to include FM broadcasts -- the first in Alabama to do so. The arrival of television in the late forties led Holt to develop his broadcasting activities. He became a leader in educational television, and later fought for the rights of cable companies to establish operations in the area....

Blair, Algernon, 1873-1952.

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United States. Federal Emergency Relief Administration

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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...

Alabama. Relief Administration.

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Hall, Grover Cleveland, 1888-1941

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Savery, Ranald.

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McCorvey, Gessner T. (Gessner Tutwiler), 1882-1965

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McCorvey, a former Alabama state Democratic executive committee chairman, is probably best known as one of the leaders of the Dixiecrat revolt of 1948. He was also heavily involved with the passage of the Boswell Amendment in 1945. Used selectively as a means to disfranchise blacks and poor whites, that amendment to the Alabama constitution required voters to interpret and explain any section of the U.S. Constitution. It was later declared unconstitutional by a Federal district court. ...

Alabama. Governor (1931-1935 : Miller).

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Myers, Howard M.

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Comer, Donald, 1877-1963.

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Son of Governor Braxton Bragg Comer, Donald Comer had a long and distinguished career in Alabama. Along with his family he controlled Avondale Mills in Sylacauga, Ala. From the description of Papers, 1921-1952. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 122439309 ...

Peach, John Harding, 1943-

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