Nan Woodruff Collection
Scope and Content
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.
Dates
- 1980 - 1985
Biographical Note
Dr. Nan Elizabeth Woodruff is a professional historian, and as of 2019, a professor of African American studies and modern U.S. history at Penn State University. Woodruff has written extensively on the subject of African American history in the south, including her book American Congo: The African American Freedom Struggle in the Delta (Harvard University Press, 2003), which won the Mississippi Historical Society's McLemore Prize in 2004.
Extent
2 Cubic Feet
Language of Materials
English
- Title
- Nan Woodruff Collection
- Status
- Completed
- Author
- Jennifer McGillan
- Date
- 02/12/2019
- Description rules
- Describing Archives: A Content Standard
- Language of description
- English
- Script of description
- Latin
- Language of description note
- English
Repository Details
Part of the Manuscripts Repository