American Friends Service Committee - Rehabilitation in bituminous coal fields, 1932

Photocopies of correspondence, field reports, newspaper clippings, legal materials, statistical reports and other materials collected by Woodruff for her dissertation, later published under the title AFTER THE RAIN. Materials document the drought of 1930-31 and its effects in Mississippi, Arkansas, Louisiana, West Virginia,Oklahoma, and Kentucky, and the efforts of the American Red Cross, the Herbert Hoover administration, and local citizens to cope with the situation. Photocopies of original documents are primarily from the American Red Cross Records in the National Archives and the Herbert Hoover Papers in the Hoover Presidential Library.