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largest of the Depression era relief measures employing millions and impacting almost every community; offered work to the unemployed for such tasks as roadwork, building construction, slum clearance, reforestation, and rural rehabilitation (1935-1943)
- In the 1930s and early 1940s, workers from the Works Progress Administration made a series of recordings and photographs in this part of Texas.six — Bad-mouthing Black English (21% in)
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- One of the former slaves interviewed by the WPA was born in Liberia, captured there in the 1850s, and brought to Texas as a child.six — Bad-mouthing Black English (22% in)
- One WPA interviewee was Laura Smalley of Hempstead, Texas, south of Springville, in the same river country, known as Brazos Bottom.six — Bad-mouthing Black English (23% in)
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