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== Oral History Projects == | == Oral History Projects == | ||
WPA Slave Narratives | |||
In the 1930s, the Works Progress Administration sponsored a Federal Writers' Project dedicated to chronicling the experience of slavery as remembered by former slaves. African-American men and women born into slavery were interviewed. Their stories were recorded and transcribed. See [http://www.pbs.org/wnet/slavery/resources/wpa.html WPA Slave Narratives] (PBS) | *[http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/snhtml/ Born in Slavery: Slave Narratives from the Federal Writers' Project, 1936-1938] contains more than 2,300 first-person accounts of slavery and 500 black-and-white photographs of former slaves | ||
*In the 1930s, the Works Progress Administration sponsored a Federal Writers' Project dedicated to chronicling the experience of slavery as remembered by former slaves. African-American men and women born into slavery were interviewed. Their stories were recorded and transcribed. See [http://www.pbs.org/wnet/slavery/resources/wpa.html WPA Slave Narratives] (PBS) | |||
== Websites == | == Websites == | ||