Soul of a People is about a handful of people who were on the
Federal Writer's Project in the 1930s and a glimpse of America at a
turning point. This particular handful of characters went from
poverty to great things later, and included John Cheever, Ralph
Ellison, Zora Neale Hurston, Richard Wright, and Studs Terkel. In
the 1930s they were all caught up in an effort to describe America
in a series of WPA guides. Through striking images and firsthand
accounts, the book reveals their experiences and the most vivid
excerpts from selected guides and interviews: Harlem
schoolchildren, truckers, Chicago fishmongers, Cuban cigar makers,
a Florida midwife, Nebraskan meatpackers, and blind musicians.
Drawing on new discoveries from personal collections, archives,
and recent biographies, a new picture has emerged in the last
decade of how the participants' individual dramas intersected with
the larger picture of their subjects. This book illuminates what it
felt like to live that experience, how going from joblessness to
reporting on their own communities affected artists with varied
visions, as well as what feelings such a passage involved: shame
humiliation, anger, excitement, nostalgia, and adventure. Also
revealed is how the WPA writers anticipated, and perhaps paved the
way for, the political movements of the following decades,
including the Civil Rights movement, the Women's Right movement,
and the Native American rights movement.
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