Interview, 1937.

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Interview, 1937.

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Photocopy of a microfilmed copy of a typescript of an interview. Daniels was interviewed by Mary A. Hicks in 1937 as part of the Federal Writer's Project for the Works Progress Administration. The item includes handwritten corrections. Daniels tells about how slaves cheered up one of their number.

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United States. Works Progress Administration

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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

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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...

Hicks, Mary

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Graduated from Cornell with a degree in architecture shortly after 1877. From the description of Mary Hicks Letters, to M. Carey Thomas, 1877-1878. (Cornell University Library). WorldCat record id: 63540937 ...

Daniels, John, 1881-

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Daniels was born after slavery but he relates what others told him about the institution. From the description of Interview, 1937. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 82012727 Served with the 13th Mich Inf, Co C. From the description of Marching through Georgia, 1864-1865. (Clarke Historical Library). WorldCat record id: 32936240 ...