Product Description: At the height of the Great Depression of the 1930's, the administration of U. S. President Franklin Roosevelt instituted a Federal Writers Project as part of a larger Works Progress Administration (WPA), massive national undertakings aimed at getting the nation back to work...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: These are fascinating stories of the memories of ex-slaves, fourteen of which have never been published before. Although many African Americans had relocated in Oklahoma after emancipation in1865, some of the interviewees had been slaves of Cherokees, Chickasaws, Choctaws, or Creeks in the Indian territory...read more