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DeRosset Papers Southern Historical Collection University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Library In the name of God the merciful the graciousGod grant his blessing upon our Prophet MohammBlessed be. I 15001865 In the 1930s over 2300 formerly enslaved African Americans were interviewed by members of the Federal Writers Project a New Deal agency in the Works Progress Administration WPA during the Great Depression Richard Jones was a slave on a la n Little Rock the people bear Babes, and comb and part their hair I A woman waters multiferns. The many, tight, and small concerns. And after testament and tunes, To Christmas tree and trifle, weave, Over 2300 former slaves were interviewed during the Great Depression of the 1930s by “January neber said a word” National Humanities Center, 2007: nationalhumanitiescenter.org/pds/. Text a S 1931 The strong men keep coming on. National Humanities Center, 2007: . Originally published in The Book of American Negro Poetry, ed. James eldon Johnson (Ne African American Abolitionists Describe Their Experiences, 1840s Among the most effective abolitionist speakers were former slaves men and occasionally women who had fled become active in the anti-sl Religious Songs of Enslaved African Americans On Sunday mornin’ I seek my Lord; 1. No more rain fall for [to] wet you, Hallelu, hallelu, No more rain fall for wet you, Hallelujah. Virginia RELIGIOUS PRACTICE Jenny Proctor, ca. 1937 “Dey wasn’t no church for de slaves but we goes to de white folks arbor on Sunday evenin’.” “The white folks feared for niggers one-act play, ca. 1930Characters New York Public Library Georgia Douglas Johnson National Humanities Center, 2007: Strange Fruit: Plays on Lynching by Ame National Archives Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr., March on Washington, 28 August 1963 National Humanities Center, 2007: . Reprinted, with permission, from the March 3, 1962, issue of The Nation an HITENAACP / Library of Congress N Most lynchings take place in small towns and rural regions where the natives know practically nothing of what is going on outside their own immediate neighborhoods. Alain Locke ART OR PROPAGANDA? *Harlem, Vol. I, No. 1 Schomburg Center / New York Public Library Alain Locke, portrait by Winold Reiss, 1925 National Humanities Center, 2007: . Originally published LiberatorThis essay was origina AP / Library of Congress LeRoi Jones / Amiri Baraka, 1965 The Revolutionary Theatre must EXPOSE! Show up the insides of these humans, look in New York Public Library William Pickens, ca. 1909 R has already been cast out by the rest of the school system. Then, of course, people who are not fit to sit with you in college, are certainly not In several hundred narratives, many published by abolitionist societies in the U.S. and England, formerly enslaved African Americans related their personal experiences of enslavement, escape, and free