Depression Era Georgia:
Selected Bibliography of Georgia Room Holdings
Sharecropper family near Hartwell, Georgia, 1937
ONLINE RESOURCES
These can be accessed from the Georgia Room's computer workstations. In addition to this website, GALILEO databases including JSTOR and America: History and Life can provide relevant information and sources. Password required for off-campus access.
New Georgia Encyclopedia http://www.georgiaencyclopedia.org
Relevant articles include: Great Depression, New Deal in Georgia, Tobacco Road and God's Little Acre, Eugene Talmadge, Richard B. Russell, Jr., Carl Vinson, Franklin D. Roosevelt in Georgia, Techwood Homes.
Library of Congress. American Life Histories: Manuscripts from the Federal Writers’ Project, 1936-1940.http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/wpaintro/wpahome.html
[Washington, D.C.]: Library of Congress, 1998. Last updated 10/18/1998.
A chapter of the Library of Congress's American Memory/Learning Page online resource. Interviews were collected by the Folklore Project of the Federal Writers' Project for the Works Progress Administration from 1936 to 1940. The WPA Life Histories from Georgia are largely first-person accounts of life in Georgia during the Depression. Subjects include Occupations, Religion, Politics, Daily Life, and Local History and Geneaology.
VERTICAL FILES
These folders include the most relevant information on Depression-era Georgia, but other folders also include related articles. Check the vertical file indexes for a complete listing of folders and topics.
General InformationEducation 1920-1949; Farm Security Administration; Agriculture 1930s; Teachers 1920-1959; Segregation 1900-1936; Schools 1900-1949; Politics 1890-1939; Legislature 1920-1949; Laws, Statutes, Judiciary 1891-1949.
BiographyEugene Talmadge (3 folders), Richard B. Russell (3), Erskine Caldwell (4)
SELECTED PRIMARY SOURCE MATERIALS
Allen, Rutillus Harrison. Part-time Farming in the Southeast. [WPA research monograph] Washington: U.S. Govt. Print. Off., 1937.
HD207 .A6 1937
Association of Southern Women for the Prevention of Lynching. Annual Bulletin Atlanta, no date.
HV6464 .A8
Association of Southern Women for the Prevention of Lynching. "With Quietness they Work": Report of the Activities of the Southern Women in Education Against Lynching during 1937. Atlanta: The Association, 1938.
HV6464 .A870
Bulloch County Historical Society. The Great Depression, 1929-1933: Bulloch County Suffered. Columbus: Brentwood Christian Press, 1984.
F292 .B9 G70 1984
Caldwell, Erskine. God's Little Acre. New York: Modern Library, 1933.
PS3505 .C147 G5 1933
Caldwell, Erskine. Tobacco Road. London: Heinemann, 1974.
PS3505 .A322 T6 1974
Caldwell, Erskine, and Margaret Bourke-White. You Have Seen Their Faces. New York: Modern Age Books, 1937.
HD207 .C147
Farnham, Rebecca Tufts. Effects of the Works Program on Rural Relief: A Survey of Rural Relief Cases Closed in Seven States, July through November, 1935. [WPA research monograph] Washington: U.S. Govt. Print. Off., 1938.
HD205 1938 .F5 1938
Federal Writers' Project. These Are Our Lives. New York: Arno Press, 1969.
F215 .F4 1969
Granger, Mary, ed. Savannah River Plantations. Savannah Writers' Project. Spartanburg, S.C.: Reprint Co., 1972.
F292 .C34 W9 1972
Hester, Al, ed. Athens Memories: the WPA Federal Writers' Project Interviews. Athens: Green Berry Press, 2001.
F294 .A7 A854 2001
Perdue, Charles L. Don't Let the Devil Out Talk You: Folksongs, Rhymes, Chants, and other Musical Material from the WPA Collection of Georgia Folklore and Ex-Slave Interviews. 1970.
GR103 .P370
Rawick, George P., ed. Georgia Narratives. v. 12-13. [Prepared by the Federal Writers' Project of the Works Progress Administration of the State of Georgia] Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Pub. Co., 1972.
E441 .A58
United States Works Progress Administration. Georgia. An Opportunity for Adults: WPA Adult School, Savannah, Georgia. Education Division, WPA of Georgia. Savannah, 1937.
LC2852 .S4 C98
Woofter, Thomas Jackson. Landlord and Tenant on the Cotton Plantation. [WPA research monograph] Washington, 1936.
HD1511 .U5 W9
Writers' Program of the Works Progress Administration in the State of Georgia. Georgia: The WPA Guide to its Towns and Countryside. Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 1990.
F291 .G45 1990
SELECTED SECONDARY WORKS
Akin, Edward Proxamus, IV. The Ku Klux Klan in Georgia: Social Change and Conflict, 1915-1930. Ph.D. diss., University of California, 1994.
HS2330 .K63 A55 1994
Anderson, William. The Wild Man from Sugar Creek: The Political Career of Eugene Talmadge. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University, 1975.
F291 .T3 A52
Andrews, Mildred Gwin. The Men and the Mills: A History of the Southern Textile Industry. Macon, GA: Mercer, 1987.
HD9877 .A13 A53 1987
Brattain, Michelle. The Politics of Whiteness: Race, Workers, and Culture in the Modern South. Athens: University of Georgia Press, 2004.
HD8072.5 .B727 2004
Davis, Anita Price. Georgia during the Great Depression: A Documentary Portrait of a Decade. Jefferson, N.C.: McFarland & Co., c2008.
F291 .D385 2008
Dudley, Julius Wayne. A History of the Association of Southern Women for the Prevention of Lynching, 1930-1942. Ph.D. diss., University of Cinncinnati, 1979.
HV6457 .D850
Ferguson, Karen. Black Politics in New Deal Atlanta. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2002.
F294 .A89 N438 2002
Fink, Gary M. and Merl E. Reed. Essays in Southern Labor History: Selected Papers. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 1977.
HD8083 .S9 S66 1976
Flamming, Douglas. Creating the Modern South: Millhands and Managers in Dalton, Georgia, 1884-1984. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1992.
HD9884 .U64 C764 1992
Fleming, Douglas L. Atlanta, the Depression, and the New Deal. Ph.D. diss., Emory University, 1984.
HC108 .A75 F440 1984a
Fossett, Roy E. The Impact of the New Deal on Georgia Politics, 1933-1941. Ph.D. diss., University of Florida, 1960.
F291 .F62
Fulcher, Eugenia Mills. Dreams Do Come True: How Rural One and Two-room Schools Influenced the Lives of African Americans in Burke County, Georgia, 1930-1955. Thesis, Georgia Southern University, 1999.
LC2802 .G4 F85 1999a
Hickey, Georgina. Hope and Danger in the New South City: Working-Class Women and Urban Development in Atlanta, 1890-1940. Athens: University of Georgia Press, 2003.
HD6069 .A7 H53 2003
Holmes, Michael S. The New Deal in Georgia; An Administrative History. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 1975.
HC107 .G43 P634
Irons, Janet Christine. Testing the New Deal: The General Textile Strike of 1934 in the American South. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2000.
HD5325 .T42 1934 I76 2000
Lemon, Sarah McCulloh. The Public Career of Eugene Talmadge: 1926-1936. Thesis, University of North Carolina, 1952.
F291 .T151 L5
Logue, Cal M. Eugene Talmadge: Rhetoric and Response. New York: Greenwood Press, 1989.
F291 .T3 L64 1989
Lumpkin, Katharine Du Pre and Dorothy Wolff Douglas. Child Workers in America. New York: R.M. McBride & Co., 1937.
HD6250 .U5 L958
Mason, Lucy Randolph. To Win These Rights: A Personal Story of the CIO in the South. New York: Harper, 1952.
HD6508 .M4
Mazzari, Louis. Arthur Raper: Modern Realist in the New Deal South. Ph.D. diss., University of New Hampshire, 2004.
HM479 .R37 M39 2004a
Miller, Marc S. Working Lives: The Southern Exposure History of Labor in the South. New York: Pantheon Books, 1980.
HD6508 .W64 1980
Phagan, Patricia. The American Scene and the South: Paintings and Works on Paper, 1930-1946. Athens: Georgia Museum of Art, 1996.
N8214.5 .U6 A474 1996
Raper, Arthur Franklin. Preface to Peasantry: A Tale of Two Black Belt Counties. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1936.
HD207 .R3
Reed, Merl E., Leslie S. Hough, and Gary M. Fink. Southern Workers and their Unions, 1880-1975: Selected Papers. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 1981.
HD6517 .A13 S68 1978
Reeves, Mary Garwood. Economic Depression in Higher Education: Emory University, the University of Georgia and Georgia Tech, 1930-1940. Ph.D. diss., Georgia State University, 1985.
LC67.65 .G4 R430 1985a
Smith, Douglas Lloyd. The New Deal and the Urban South: the Advancement of a Southern Urban Consciousness during the Depression Decade. Thesis, University of Southern Mississippi, 1978.
HC106.3 .S5270
Smith, Mary Sue DeLoach. The Great Magnolia and Boarding Teachers in Rural Bulloch County, 1930's-1940's. Statesboro: Bulloch County Historical Society, 1999.
LC5147 .G4 S5 1999
Smith, Mary Sue DeLoach. What Did it Mean to be a Boarding Teacher in a Rural Bulloch County Community in the 1930s and 1940s? Ph.D. diss., Georgia Southern University, 1999.
LB2837 .S65 1999a
Woofter, Thomas Jackson. Seven Lean Years. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1939.
HD1765 .W912
UGA THESES AND DISSERTATIONS
UGA theses and dissertations are available in the Georgia Room, but require prior notice of interest in order to retrieve from the repository, and, like all Georgia Room sources, cannot be checked out.
Barber, Henry Eugene. The Association of Southern Women for the Prevention of Lynching, 1930-1942. M.A. thesis, University of Georgia, 1967.
LXC15 1967 .B2
Bashaw, Carolyn Terry. "We Who Live 'Off On the Edges'": Deans of Women at Southern Coeducational Institutions and Access to the Community of Higher Education, 1907-1960. Ph.D. diss., University of Georgia, 1992.
LXC16 1992 .B299
Cobb, James C. Eugene Talmadge and the Purge: The Georgia Senatorial Campaign of 1938. M.A. thesis, University of Georgia, 1972.
LXC15 1972 .C65
Coode, Thomas H. Georgia Congressmen and the New Deal, 1933-1938. Thesis, University of Georgia, 1966.
LXC16 1966 .C7
Dawson, Deborah Kim. From Paternalism to Corporate Capitalism: Industrial Leadership in Georgia's Cotton Textile Industry, 1900-1935. Ph.D. diss., University of Georgia, 1994.
LXC16 1994 .D272
Ermentrout, Robert Allen. The Civilian Conservation Corps. M.A. thesis, University of Georgia, 1964.
LXC15 1964 .E7
Etheridge, Elizabeth Williams. The Strange Hunger: A Social History of Pellagra in the South. Thesis, University of Georgia, 1966.
LXC16 1966 .E8
Hammett, Michael Lesley. Senator Richard B. Russell and New Deal Farm Policies, 1933-1941. M.A. thesis, University of Georgia, 1985.
LXC15 1985 .H224
Kalmar, Karen L. Savannah and the New Deal, 1932-1939: A Case Study. M.A. thesis, University of Georgia, 1970.
LXC15 1970 .K2
Langston, Jessica Cubbedge. A Georgian Political Dynasty: Analysis of the Electoral Career of Eugene Talmadge. Thesis, University of Georgia, 2000.
LXC13.9 2000 .L285
Lapp, Kevin David. Georgians At Home: Southern White Identity in the WPA Guidebooks to Georgia, 1935-1942. M.A. thesis, University of Georgia, 1998.
LXC15 1998 .L316
Moseley, Clement Charlton. Invisible Empire: A History of the Ku Klux Klan in Twentieth Century Georgia, 1915-1965. Thesis, University of Georgia, 1968.
LXC16 1968 .M8
Muse, Howard Shields. F.D.R. and the Southern New Dealers. M.A. thesis, University of Georgia, 1966.
LXC15 1966 .M9
Poole, John Russell. The Federal Theatre Project in Georgia and Alabama: An Historical Analysis of Government Theatre in the Deep South. Ph.D. diss., University of Georgia, 1995.
LXC16 1995 .P822
Stone, Christopher David. A Living Lincoln: Abraham Lincoln in Depression-era Film, 1930-1941. M.A. thesis, University of Georgia, 1999.
LXC15 1999 .S877
Taylor, Jason Edward. The National Industrial Recovery Act: Cartels for All and No Questions Asked? Ph.D. diss., University of Georgia, 1998.
LXC16 1998 .T423
Wyche, Billy Hall. Southern Attitudes Toward Industrial Unions, 1933-1941. Thesis, University of Georgia, 1970.
LXC16 1970 .W96
Wyche, Billy Hall. Southern Senators and Selected Labor Legislation of the First Administration of Franklin D. Roosevelt. M.A. thesis, University of Georgia, 1961.
LXC15 1961 .W9
JOURNALS AND ARTICLES
Relevant journals and articles in hard copy in the Georgia Room
Atlanta Historical Journal F294 .A8 A881
Ellis, Ann Wells. "'Uncle Sam is my Shepherd': The Commission on Interracial Cooperation and the New Deal in Georgia." Atlanta Historical Journal 30 (1986): 47-63.
Fleming, Douglas L. "The New Deal in Atlanta: A Review of the Major Programs." Atlanta Historical Journal 30 (1986): 23-45.
Herndon, Jane Walker. "Ed Rivers and Georgia's 'Little New Deal'". Atlanta Historical Journal 30 (1986): 97-105.
Kuhn, Cliff. "Reminiscences: Interviews with Atlanta New Deal Social Workers." Atlanta Historical Journal 30 (1986): 107-116.
Atlanta History: A Journal of Georgia & the South F294 .A8 A881
Burnham, Robert A. "Interracial Cooperation in the Age of Jim Crow: The Booker T. Washington Community Center of Macon, Georgia." Atlanta History 42 (1994): 19-35.
Corley, Florence Fleming. "Atlanta's Techwood and University Homes Projects: The Nation's Laboratory for Public Housing." Atlanta History 31 (1988): 17-36.
Grantham, Dewey W. "Regional Claims and National Purposes: The South and the New Deal." Atlanta History 38 (1994): 5-17.
Hudson, Paul Stephen. "Campus and Commercial Development in Suburban Atlanta: The Symbiotic Relationship between Oglethorpe University and Silver Lake." Atlanta History 39 (1995): 48-62.
Kuhn, Cliff. "'We Lived that Way': An Oral History Interview with Joe Jacobs." Atlanta History 36 (1993): 54-67.
Georgia Historical Quarterly F281 .G352
Selected relevant articles include:
Atkins, Jonathan M. "Philanthropy in the Mountains: Martha Berry and the Early Years of the Berry Schools." Georgia Historical Quarterly 82 (1998): 856-876.
Blackwelder, Julia Kirk. "Quiet Suffering: Atlanta Women in the 1930s." Georgia Historical Quarterly 61 (1977): 112-124.
Bryant, Simon. "Rethinking Why There are so Few Unions in the South." Georgia Historical Quarterly 81 (1997): 465-484.
Cobb, James C. "Not Gone, but Forgotten: Eugene Talmadge and the 1938 Purge Campaign." Georgia Historical Quarterly 59 (1975): 197-209.
Cohen, Robert. "Public Schools in Hard Times: Letters from Georgia Educators and Students to Eleanor and Franklin Roosevelt, 1933-1940." Georgia Historical Quarterly 82 (1998): 121-150.
Conkin, Paul K. "It All Happened in Pine Mountain Valley." Georgia Historical Quarterly 47 (1963): 1-42.
Corley, Florence Fleming. "The National Youth Administration in Georgia: A New Deal for Young Blacks and Women." Georgia Historical Quarterly 77 (1993): 728-756.
Davis, Steve. "The South as 'The Nation's No. 1 Economic Problem': The NEC Report of 1938." Georgia Historical Quarterly 62 (1978): 119-132.
Dubay, Robert W. "Pyrrhic Victory: The Election of 1936." Georgia Historical Quarterly 66 (1982): 69-112.
Findlay, Mark R. "The Failure of Chemurgy in the Depression-Era South: The Case of Jesse F. Jackson and the Central of Georgia Railroad." Georgia Historical Quarterly 81 (1997): 78-102.
Flynt, Wayne. "Erskine Caldwell's Poor Whites: Literary Realism or Historical Mythology?" Georgia Historical Quarterly 80 (1996): 835-846.
Gay, James Thomas. "Richard B. Russell and the National School Lunch Program." Georgia Historical Quarterly 80 (1996): 859-872.
Gelfand, H. Michael. "Chronicling an African-American Life in Athens: James W. Davis and his Georgia Writers' Project Interview, 1939." Georgia Historical Quarterly 81 (1997): 713-734.
Ginzl, David J. "Patronage, Race, and Politics: Georgia Republicans during the Hoover Administration." Georgia Historical Quarterly 64 (1960): 280-293.
Goode, Thomas H. "Georgia Congressmen and the First Hundred Days of the New Deal." Georgia Historical Quarterly 53 (1969): 129-146.
Holmes, Michael S. "From Euphoria to Cataclysm: Georgia Confronts the Great Depression." Georgia Historical Quarterly 58 (1974): 313-330.
Hudson, Paul Stephen. "A Call for 'Bold Persistent Experimentation': FDR's Oglethorpe University Commencement Address, 1932." Georgia Historical Quarterly 78 (1994): 361-375.
Ingalls, Robert P. "The Wagner Act on Trial: Vigilante Violence and the Struggle to Organize Textile Workers in Fitzgerald, Georgia, 1937-1940." Georgia Historical Quarterly 81 (1997): 345-369.
Kolmar, Karen L. "Southern Black Elites and the New Deal: A Case Study of Savannah." Georgia Historical Quarterly 65 (1981): 341-355.
Lemmon, Sarah McCulloh. "The Ideology of Eugene Talmadge." Georgia Historical Quarterly 38 (1954): 226-248.
Mead, Howard N. "Russell vs. Talmadge: Southern Politics and the New Deal." Georgia Historical Quarterly 65 (1981): 341-355.
Montgomery, Denise, Louis Schmier, and David Williams. "The Other Depression: A Farm Security Administration Family in Carroll County, 1941." Georgia Historical Quarterly 77 (1993): 811-822.
Orr, Dorothy. "The Children of Depression." Georgia Historical Quarterly 17 (1933): 204-211.
Raper, Arthur F. "The Southern Negro and the NRA." Georgia Historical Quarterly 64 (1960): 128-145.
Reuchel, Frank. "New Deal Public Housing, Urban Poverty, and Jim Crow: Techwood and University Homes in Atlanta." Georgia Historical Quarterly 81 (1997):
Schmier, Louis and Montgomery, Denise. "The Other Depression: The Black Experience in Georgia through an FSA Photographer's Lens." Georgia Historical Quarterly 78 (1994): 133-148.
Snyder, Robert E. "Spying on Southerners: The FBI and Erskine Caldwell." Georgia Historical Quarterly 72 (1988): 248-281.
Stewart, Mart Allen. "Cultivating Kudzu: The Soil Conservation Service and the Kudzu Distribution Program." Georgia Historical Quarterly 81 (1997): 151-167.
Vaughn, Gerald F. "C.A. Wiley and New Deal Land Reform in Georgia's Cotton Belt." Georgia Historical Quarterly 80 (1996): 299-320.
Walter, John C. "Congressman Carl Vinson and Franklin D. Roosevelt: Naval Preparedness and the Coming of World War II, 1932-1940." Georgia Historical Quarterly 64 (1960): 294-305.
Whalen, Gail and Price, Michael E. "The Elusive Women of Irene: The WPA Excavation of a Savannah Indian Mound." Georgia Historical Quarterly 82 (1998): 608-626.
Williams, Louis. "William Berry Hartsfield and Atlanta Politics: The Formative Years of an Urban Reformer, 1920-1936." Georgia Historical Quarterly 84 (2000): 651-676.
Zeigler, Luther Harmon, Jr. "Senator Walter George's 1938 Campaign." Georgia Historical Quarterly 43 (1959): 333-352.
Georgia and Federal Writers' Project Articles from the Georgia Historical QuarterlySavannah Unit, Federal Writers' Project. "Causton's Bluff, Deptford, Brewton Hill: Three Allied Plantations. Part I." Georgia Historical Quarterly 23 (1939): 28-54.
Savannah Unit, Federal Writers' Project. "Causton's Bluff, Deptford, Brewton Hill: Three Allied Plantations. Part II." Georgia Historical Quarterly 23 (1939): 122-147.
Savannah Unit, Federal Writers' Project. "Mulberry Grove in Colonial Times." Georgia Historical Quarterly 23 (1939): 237-252.
Savannah Unit, Federal Writers' Project. "Plantation Development in Chatham County." Georgia Historical Quarterly 22 (1938): 305-330.
Savannah Unit, Georgia Writers' Project, Works Progress Administration in Georgia. "Brampton Plantation." Georgia Historical Quarterly 27 (1943): 28-55.
Savannah Unit, Georgia Writers' Project, Works Progress Administration in Georgia. "The Hermitage Plantation." Georgia Historical Quarterly 27 (1943): 56-87.
Savannah Unit, Georgia Writers' Project, Works Progress Administration in Georgia. "The Plantation of Royal Vale." Georgia Historical Quarterly 27 (1943): 88-110.
Savannah Unit, Georgia Writers' Project, Works Progress Administration in Georgia. "Mulberry Grove from the Revolution to the Present Time." Georgia Historical Quarterly 23 (1939): 315-336.
SELECTED ARTICLES ACCESSIBLE THROUGH GALILEO DATABASES
Badger, Henry G. "Finances of Negro Colleges 1929-30 to 1938-39." The Journal of Negro Education 9 (1940): 162-166.
Biles, Roger. "The Urban South in the Great Depression." The Journal of Southern History 56 (1990): 71-100.
Goodenow, Ronald K. "Paradox in Progressive Educational Reform: The South and the Education of Blacks in the Depression Years." Phylon 39 (1978): 49-65.
Holmes, Michael S. "The Blue Eagle as 'Jim Crow Bird': The NRA and Georgia's Black Workers." The Journal of Negro History 57 (1972): 276-283.
Massey, James L. and Myers, Martha A. "Patterns of Repressive Social Control in Post-Reconstruction Georgia, 1882-1935." Social Forces 68 (1989): 458-488.
Matherly, Walter J. and McFerrin, John B. "The History of the Southern Economic Association, 1927-1952." Southern Economic Journal 19 (1952): 155-172.
Morton, Marian J. "'My Dear, I Don't Give a Damn': Scarlett O'Hara and the Great Depression." Frontiers: A Journal of Women's Studies 5 (1980): 52-56.
Roscigno, Vincent J. and Danaher, William F. "Media and Mobilization: The Case of Radio and Southern Textile Worker Insurgency, 1929 to 1934." American Sociological Review 66 (2001): 21-48.
Schultz, Mark R. "The Dream Realized? African American Land Ownership in Central Georgia between Reconstruction and World War Two." Agricultural History 72 (1998): 289-312.
Werum, Regina. "Elite Control in State and Nation: Racial Inequalities in Vocational Funding in North Carolina, Georgia, and Mississippi, 1918-1936." Social Forces 78 (1999): 145-186.
Whatley, Warren C. "Labor for the Picking: The New Deal in the South." The Journal of Economic History 43 (1983): 905-929.
Wilkerson-Freeman, S. "The Creation of a Subversive Feminist Dominion: Interracialist Social Workers and the Georgia New Deal." Journal of Women's History 13 (2002): 132-154.
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