Oral history interview with Will Winton Alexander, 1952

Biographical Note

Agriculturist, authority on race relations, educator

Scope and Contents

Childhood and education; Vanderbilt University; ministry, Methodist Church South, 1901-1917; World War I; race riots; beginning work in race relations, Commission in Interracial Cooperation, 1919-1930; lynching; Ku Klux Klan; Atlanta University merger; Dillard University, Acting President, 1931-1935; Resettlement Administration, 1935-1936; Greenbelt towns; Great Plains; subsistence homesteads; Bankhead-Jones Farm Tenant Act, Farm Security Administration, 1937; Julius Rosenwald Fund; Fair Employment Practices Committee; organizing the American Council on Race Relations; impressions of C.B. Baldwin, John Fischer, Sidney Hillman, President and Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt, Julius Rosenwald, Frank Tannenbaum, Mr. and Mrs. Rexford G. Tugwell, Henry Wallace and others.

Subjects

• Agriculture--United States.
• Agriculturists--Interviews.
• Albertson, Dean, 1920-, interviewer.
• Alexander, Will Winton, 1884-1956--Interviews.
• Atlanta University Center (Ga.)
• Dillard University.
• Education.
• Educators--Interviews.
• Interviews.
• Ku Klux Klan (1915- )
• Methodist Episcopal Church, South.
• New Deal, 1933-1939.
• Oral histories (literary works)
• United States--Politics and government--1933-1945.
• United States--Race relations.
• United States. Farm Security Administration.
• United States. Resettlement Administration.

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