Online: Good, Bad, and Ugly: Accessing and Assessing the WPA Slave Narratives
to
Birmingham Public Library 2100 Park Place, Birmingham, Alabama
A federal government initiative to employ writers during the Great Depression led to the creation of an invaluable historical resource that has since been little used and little understood. Paul Boncella of the Southern History Department examines over forty volumes of published WPA slave narratives in an effort to outline their content and to make this enormous compilation accessible to a broader audience.
Info
Education & Learning, events, library