The Federal Writers Project in Florida

Interviewee

• Bill Dudley, Florida Humanities Council
• Richard Gray
• Margaret Gibbons Wilson
• Cornelia Mitchell
• Isabel Barnwell
• A. J. Manning
• Stetson Kennedy

Files

Publication Date

9-1995

Abstract

Margaret Gibbons Wilson speaks about the Federal Writers Project oral histories collected during the 1930s that provide a glimpse into the lives of everyday Floridians. The segment includes clips of oral histories from Richard Gray, Cornelia Mitchell, Isabel Barnwell, A.J. Manning, and Stetson Kennedy.

Keywords

Great Depression (1929), Turpentine, Authors, Zora Neale Hurston, Folklore, United States. Works Progress Administration, Federal Writers' Project of the Work Projects Administration for the State of Florida, Stetson Kennedy

Extent

00:07:07; 6 page transcript

Language

English

Digital Date

2026

Media Type

Audio recordings

Format

Digital Only

Identifier

fhc_audio-1062

Creative Commons

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 4.0 License.

Recommended Citation

Dudley, Bill; Gray, Richard; Wilson, Margaret Gibbons; Mitchell, Cornelia; Barnwell, Isabel; Manning, A. J.; and Kennedy, Stetson, "The Federal Writers Project in Florida" (1995). Florida Humanities Audio Archive. 63.
https://digitalcommons.usf.edu/fhc_audio/63