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CONTENT WARNING: Some of these texts contain offensive and racist language used by the creators of these documents.
W. T. Couch (1901), a white publisher and editor, was also a part-time official of the Federal Writers' Project of the Works Progress Administration, as assistant and associate director for North Carolina, 1936-1937, and as director for the southern region, 1938-1939. These papers include his correspondence relating to the project and narratives (called "life histories") of about 1,200 individuals, written by about 60 members of the project after one or more oral history interviews with the subjects. Persons interviewed, many of them African Americans, described life in Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Louisiana, Oklahoma, South Carolina, Tennessee, and Virginia.
Works
03709_0106: Mary Windsor
Mrs. Senie Williams, circa 1915, Hardee County, white wife of sharecropper, Venus, no date given
03709_0113: I Don't Do No Votin'
Lula Gray, circa 1902, Manna, S.C., Black housewife; Rich Gray, 1888, Robertsville, S.C., Black turpentine foreman, Carters, no date given
03709_0114: George and Bessie Derrick
George Derrick, 1886, Kingston, Jamaica, Black tenant farmer; Bessie Derrick, no date given, no place given, Black tenant farmer, Plant City, 10 February 1939
03709_0115: William and Corneal Jackson
William Jackson, Ocala, 1903, Black, phosphate miner; Corneal Jackson, 1908, Key West, Black, housewife, Lakeland, 20 January 1939
03709_0121: Enrique and Amanda
Adelpha Pollato, no date given, [Key West?], Cuban, cigar-maker, Ybor City, 3 January 1939
03709_0125: Mister Homer
Homer Jordan, no date given, Dinsmore, white salesman and installment collector, Jacksonville, 3 February 1939
03709_0126: Martin Cross, Wood and Fuel Dealer
Montgomery Corse, [1865?], [Virginia?], white, wood and fuel dealer, Jacksonville, 2 February 1939
03709_0127: Reverend W. C. Sale
Reverend W. C. Sale, no date given, Alabama, white, clergyman, Jacksonville, no date given
03709_0128: George Harmon Kirby
James Kerby Ward, no date given, Togo, white, bus driver, Jacksonville, no date given