March 5, 1980

Pernella Mae Center Anderson, who was born in Camden (Ouachita County), died in Detroit, Michigan, where she had taught in the public schools. Anderson was one of Arkansas’s two African-American interviewers for the Federal Writers’ Project (FWP). She interviewed former slaves between 1936 and 1939, and twenty-six of her interviews dealing with slavery were published in the seventeen-volume Slave Narratives: A Folk History of Slavery in the United States from Interviews with Former Slaves (1941).

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