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A transcript of an Ex-Slave Narrative interview conducted by Sheldon F. Gauthier for the Works Progress Administration's Federal Writers' Project in the 1930s with Scott Hooper. Scott Hooper was born in 1856 in Shelby County, on Tucker's farm near Bucksnort, now called Tenaha. Scott recounts her fathers life on Jack Hooper's farm that was four miles from Robert Tucker's farm. Hooper describes growing up on the Tucker's farm and how well they were treated. Hooper also describes leaving Shelby County when the Ku Klux Klan's started to terrorize and harm the surrounding families when she was a teenager. Hooper spoke briefly of her children and her husband Steve, their lives in Fort Worth and how she can no longer afford her home.
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1937-10-05
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Works Progress Administration, Federal Writers' Project. Fort Worth City Guide Draft and Records.
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AR316-4-7
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