An Introduction to the WPA Slave Narratives

An Introduction to the WPA Slave Narratives

In this paper we investigated the item “An Introduction to the WPA Slave Narratives” in writing by Norman R. Yetman. From the item we investigated that WPA Slave Narratives are meetings with ex-slaves undertook from 1936 through 1938 by the Federal Writers' Project (FWP), a unit of the Works Progress Administration (WPA). Both the FWP and its parent association, the WPA, were New Deal respite bureaus conceived by the management of President Franklin D. Roosevelt to supply occupations for jobless employees throughout the Great Depression.

     Norman reviewed that ...