Ohio Federal Writers' Project
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Caption reads: "People at work & play - Alfred Murphy. Never too old to learn. That's the slogan of Alfred Murphy, 105 year old ex-slave, a pupil in a literary class conducted by the WPA in Columbus, Ohio. Mr. Murphy lived 33 years in slavery, spent two years in the Confederate Army, throwing up breastwork. He was at Richmond when General Lee surrendered. Unemployed teachers, hired by the WPA, are teaching 9,000 Ohioans to read and write. Ohio has 320,000 illiterates, America, 3,200,000."
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Ohio Digital NetworkKeywords
- Adult Education
- African American Ohioans
- African Americans
- Literacy
- Ohio
- Students
- Works Progress Administration