Up Before Daylight: Life Histories from the Alabama Writers' Project, 1938-1939

by James Samuel Brown

These compelling accounts of hard times and hard work reveal human courage, dignity, and resilience from a generation that endured the Great Depression.

One achievement of the 1930s Federal Writers' Project was its ambitious collection of life histories based on interviews with southern workers and farmers. For Up before Daylight James Seay Brown chose 28 of the more than 100 accounts from throughout Alabama as a rich sampling--from...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0817300996
• ISBN13: 9780817300999
• Release Date: September 1982
• Publisher: University Alabama Press
• Length: 280 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 9.3"