1. Report of the Director, 1933, Appendix A.

2. Dixon Wechter, The Age of the Great Depression 1929-41 (New York, 1948), p. 162; Schlesinger, III, 425-438; Searle F. Charles, Minister of Relief: Harry Hopkins and the Depression (Syracuse, 1963), pp. 26-27.

3. Will Alexander to Persons, June 12, 1933, S.D., Correspondence, Negro Selection.

4. W. H. Harris to Secretary of Labor, May 2, 1933, ibid.

5. De la Perriere to Persons, May 5, 1933, ibid.

6. Jessie O. Thomas to Secretary of Labor, May 9, 1933, ibid.

7. Persons to Fechner, May 5, 1933, ibid.

8. Alexander to Persons, May 19, 1933, ibid. The Farm Security Administration was a New Deal agency created in 1937 to deal specifically with the economic problems of the tenant farmer.

9. Persons to de la Perriere (telephone conversation report), May 19, 1933, ibid.

10. Persons to Talmadge (telephone conversation report), May 19, 1933, ibid. Talmadge later became a violent critic of CCC work.

11. Persons to Secretary of Labor, June 1, 1933, ibid.

12. Fechner to Roosevelt, June 1, 1933, ibid.

13. Persons to Secretary of Labor, June 1, 1933, ibid.

14. Persons' memorandum for files, May 19, 1933, ibid.

15. W. A. Rooksbery, director of relief, Ark., to Persons, June 2, 1933, ibid.

16. Thad Holt to Persons (telephone conversation report), May 20, 1933, ibid.

17. Will Alexander to Persons, June 12, 1933, ibid.

18. Advisory Council, Minutes, June 26, 1933.

19. Fechner to Rep. J. G. Polk (Dem., O.), Oct. 20, 1934, to Gov. Herbert Lehman, N.Y., April 3, 1937, in Director, Correspondence.

20. Fechner to W. G. Still, Morton, Miss., Sept. 16, 1935, ibid.

21. Fechner to Polk, Oct. 30, 1934, ibid.

22. H. S. Sage, chairman, Citizens and Residents of Thornhurst, Pa., to Fechner, Aug. 1, 1935, ibid.

23. Petition to Fechner, Oct. 26, 1934, ibid.

24. Ira G. Shobe, Ligonia, Ind., to Fechner, Oct. 3, 1934, ibid.

25. Sen. W. G. McAdoo (Dem., Calif.), to Fechner, Aug. 30, 1935, ibid.

26. Fechner to H. S. Sage, Aug. 5, 1935, ibid.

27. Fechner to Persons, April 18, 1935, S.D., Correspondence, Negro Selection.

28. Sen. Joseph Robinson to Fechner, June 6, 1935, Laurens County Chamber of Commerce to Fechner, Aug. 14, 1935, W. G. Still to Fechner, Sept. 14, 1935, in Director, Correspondence.

29. Fechner to Sen. Robinson, April 22, 1935, ibid.

30. Roy Wilkins, assistant secretary, NAACP, to Fechner, Nov. 8, 1933, June 7, 1934, July 31, 1934, ibid.

31. Alton Wright to Roosevelt, Nov. 2, 1934, ibid.

32. Fechner to Miss Ethelda Mullen, director, Delaware Emergency Relief Assn., Oct. 13, 1934, ibid.

33. "Just a Colored Mother" to Roosevelt, June 16, 1935, S.D., Correspondence, Negro Selection.

34. Garth H. Akridge, field agent, Julius Rosenwald Fund, to Persons, March 10, 1935, ibid. "Junior" was the term used to describe enrollees between eighteen and twenty-five years of age, as distinct from veterans, Indians, and other special enrollees.

35. Fechner to Howe, April 4, 1934, Director, Correspondence.

36. Fechner to Rep. Thomas C. Hennings (Dem., Mo.), Sept. 3, 1935, Roosevelt Papers, O.F. 268, Box 6.

37. Stephen Early to Fechner, Nov. 13, 1936, ibid., O.F. 268—Misc., Box 18; Judge R. T. Sessions, Ashdown, Ark., to Robinson, Sept. 23, 1935, and Sen. J. H. Overton (Dem., La.) to Fechner, Dec. 7, 1936, in Director, Correspondence. For a fuller discussion of this particular aspect of the Negro question, see chap. xi, below.

38. Maj. C. P. Gross to Fechner, Aug. 27, 1934, ibid.

39. Fechner to Gross, Sept 10, 1934, ibid. Often those few Negroes who were placed in predominantly white camps were among the most popular enrollees there. See Holland and Hill, p. 112.

40. See J. Fred Kurtz to Persons, March 19, 1935, S.D., Correspondence, Negro Selection.

41. Persons to Major, Nov. 2, 1933, ibid.

42. Advisory Council, Minutes, Nov, 1, 1934.

43. Persons to Crossley, Aug. 10, 1935, S.D., Correspondence, Negro Selection.

44. Persons to Chester Barnard, director, ERA, N.J., June 28, 1935, ibid.

45. Crossley to Persons, July 26, 1935, ibid.

46. Advisory Council, Minutes, Nov. 1, 1934.

47. Fechner to Robinson, July 19, 1935, to Adjutant General, July 16, 1935, in Director, Correspondence.

48. Persons to Secretary of Labor, July 19, 1935, S.D., Correspondence, Negro Selection.

49. Fechner to Persons, July 14, Aug. 1, 1935, Hopkins to Persons, Aug. 6, 1935, ibid.

50. Persons to Fechner, July 25, 1935, ibid.

51. Fechner to Major, July 24, 1935, Director, Correspondence.

52. Advisory Council, Minutes, Sept. 24, 1935.

53. Fechner to Persons, May 15, 1936, S.D., Correspondence, Negro Selection.

54. Schlesinger, III, 433-434.

55. Oxley to Fechner, June 30, 1938, Director, Correspondence.

56. Fechner to Sen. Joseph Guffey (Dem., Pa.), March 17, 1939, ibid. White enrollees remained in camp about ten months, on the average. Negroes stayed in almost five months longer.

57. Luther C. Wandall, "A Negro in the CCC," Crisis, XLII (Aug., 1935), 244-253.