WPA Slave Narratives: Additional Information
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Websites
- Born in Slavery: Slave Narratives from the Federal Writers' Project 1936-1938
memory.loc.gov/ammem/snhtml/snhome.html
- American Slave Narratives: An online Anthology
http://xroads.virginia.edu/~hyper/wpa/wpahome.html
- Been Here So Long: Selection from the WPA American Slave Narrative
http://newdeal.feri.org/asn/index.htm
Other online Library of Congress resources include
- African American History and Culture
http://www.loc.gov/rr/mss/guide/african.html
- The African-American Mosaic
http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/african/intro.html
- American Treasures of the Library of Congress: Abolition & Suffrage
http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/treasures/tr22a.html#abolition
- Images of African-American Slavery and Freedom from the collections of the Library of Congress
http://www.loc.gov/rr/print/list/082_slave.html
Information on the FWP
- William F. McDonald, Federal Relief Administration and the Arts: The Origins and Administrative History of the Arts Projects of the Works Progress Administration Columbus, Ohio, 1969
- Jerre Mangione, The Dream and the Deal: The Federal Writers’ Project, 1935-1943 Boston and Toronto, 1972
- Penkower, Monty Noam. The Federal Writers' Project: A Study in Government Patronage of the Arts. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1977.
- Soapes, Thomas F. "The Federal Writers' Project Slave Interviews: Useful Data or Misleading Source." Oral History Review 2 (1977): 33-38.
