U.S. Federal Emergency Relief Administration Records

Collection

Identifier: MS Un3r

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Scope and Content Note

Contains 22 items pertaining to a 1935 Federal Emergency Administration Relief Workers' Strike in Sebastian County, Arkansas. Xerox copy of selected material, Jan. 9 - Mar .1, 1935, from state files of National Archives and Records Service's Records Group 69, Records of Federal Emergency Relief Administration. Records relate, in part, to: Arkansas Emergency Relief Administration, Horace Bryan, Commonwealth College, Students League for Industrial Democracy, Ward H. Rodgers, Southern Tenant Farmers Union, and Working Men's Union of the World. Correspondents include: William Ruthrauff Amberson, Floyd Sharp, Samuel Teitelbaum, Willard Edwin Uphaus, Claude C. Williams.

Dates

Creation: 1935

Creator

United States. Federal Emergency Relief Administration (Organization)

Language of Materials

Materials are in English.

Access Information

Please call (479) 575-8444 or email specoll@uark.edu at least two weeks in advance of your arrival to ensure availability of the materials.

Use Information

No Use Restrictions Apply.

No Interlibrary Loan.

Standard Federal Copyright Laws Apply (U.S. Title 17).

Biographical Note

On May 12, 1933, the United States Congress created the Federal Emergency Relief Administration (FERA). FERA permitted states to fund relief programs for their citizens.

Extent

0.1 Linear Feet (5 folders)

Additional Description

Acquisition Information

The U.S. Federal Emergency Relief Administration Records consists of copies purchased by the Special Collections Department from the U.S. National Archives and Records Service, Washington, D.C., in October 1973. Original records are held by NARA.