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Journal Article
The WPA Redeemer Narratives: White Mississippians and Reconstruction Memory in the New Deal Era
2025
Overview
Sometime in the years immediately following the Civil War, Duncan's future wife had attended a community dance at the county courthouse. [...]their emphasis on Reconstruction underscores the post-Civil War era's significance as an origin story for a \"New Mississippi\" characterized by one-party rule and Black disenfranchisement. Created by white southerners for white southerners, the WPA redeemer narratives reveal what Reconstruction lessons persisted through six decades of mediation and why particular memories resonated in an era of economic and political turmoil.® These interviews also highlight the authority of living memory, a power that WPA researchers worked to extend well beyond the life spans of Reconstruction's surviving eyewitnesses. Yet even under these expanded parameters, the living memory of the Civil War and Reconstruction would have barely extended into the latter half of the twentieth century.
