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In the fall of 1938, Mr. William Shell, state director of the Negro division of the National Youth Administration in Georgia, in the role of guest speaker, delivered an address to a class in Public Welfare Administration at the Atlanta University School of Social Work. He spoke on the National Youth Administration in Georgia for Negroes. Stimulated by a desire to learn to what extent the National Youth Administration Program was fulfilling its main objectives in the NYA Work Projects set up for Negroes in Atlanta, the author chose as a subject for a thesis, "The National Youth Administration Work Projects for Negroes in Fulton County, Georgia." Work Projects were those projects operated by NYA through which youths between the ages of eighteen and twenty-four who were out-of-school were compensated for activities in which they were engaged. This study would include all the Negro NYA Work Projects in Atlanta and Fulton County. To make such a study it was necessary to visit and to observe the projects while they were in operation and through these means be able to ascertain whether or not they were fulfilling their objectives.

In making a study of The Colonial Records of the State of Georgia for facts about the Negro, the writer was amazed at the large number of items included in the Records which were not accounted for in the index. For instance, the index to Volume VIII does not give a single reference to Negroes or slaves, although the book is filled with petitions and land grants depending upon the number of Negro slaves a family possessed. It also tells of the use of Negroes for militia service and the desire to keep Indians and Negroes from mixing. The same is true of Volume X and many of the other volumes. Therefore, this study will deal almost wholly with the unindexed material on the Negro found in the Colonial Records. Of course, certain widely known and generally accepted facts that were listed in the index will also be included in this study. 1 However, even when such facts were listed in the index, much of the interesting discussion and controversy attending them were omitted. As a consequence, one using the index as the sole guide to the Negro in colonial Georgia would miss much revealing and valuable material. 1Law excluding Negroes and the law introducing them into the colony.