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Author | : United States. Work Projects Administration |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 108 |
Release | : 1938 |
Genre | : Public buildings |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : United States. Work Projects Administration |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 108 |
Release | : 1938 |
Genre | : Public buildings |
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Author | : Nick Taylor |
Publisher | : Bantam |
Total Pages | : 673 |
Release | : 2009-02-24 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0553381326 |
Seventy-five years after Franklin D. Roosevelt’s New Deal, here for the first time is the remarkable story of one of its enduring cornerstones, the Works Progress Administration (WPA): its passionate believers, its furious critics, and its amazing accomplishments. The WPA is American history that could not be more current, from providing economic stimulus to renewing a broken infrastructure. Introduced in 1935 at the height of the Great Depression, when unemployment and desperation ruled the land, this controversial nationwide jobs program would forever change the physical landscape and social policies of the United States. The WPA lasted eight years, spent $11 billion, employed 8½ million men and women, and gave the country not only a renewed spirit but a fresh face. Now this fascinating and informative book chronicles the WPA from its tumultuous beginnings to its lasting presence, and gives us cues for future action.
Author | : United States. Works Progress Administration |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 138 |
Release | : 1937 |
Genre | : Public service employment |
ISBN | : |
Author | : United States. Congress. House. Appropriations |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 1124 |
Release | : 1940 |
Genre | : Governmental investigations |
ISBN | : |
Contains material complementing and supporting the report of investigation of the Work Projects Administration activities, printed on pages 1 to 94 of Part 3.
Author | : Jennie S. Harrison |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : |
Release | : 1996 |
Genre | : Prince George County (Va.) |
ISBN | : |
Author | : United States / Works Progress A |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : |
Release | : 1937 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : |
Author | : United States. Work Projects Administration |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 106 |
Release | : 1936 |
Genre | : Public service employment |
ISBN | : |
Author | : United States. Works Progress Administration |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 164 |
Release | : 1938 |
Genre | : Public service employment |
ISBN | : |
Author | : United States. Work Projects Administration (New York, N.Y.) |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 312 |
Release | : 1939 |
Genre | : Charities |
ISBN | : |
Author | : David A. Taylor |
Publisher | : Turner Publishing Company |
Total Pages | : 307 |
Release | : 2010-04-15 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0470885882 |
Soul of a People is about a handful of people who were on the Federal Writer's Project in the 1930s and a glimpse of America at a turning point. This particular handful of characters went from poverty to great things later, and included John Cheever, Ralph Ellison, Zora Neale Hurston, Richard Wright, and Studs Terkel. In the 1930s they were all caught up in an effort to describe America in a series of WPA guides. Through striking images and firsthand accounts, the book reveals their experiences and the most vivid excerpts from selected guides and interviews: Harlem schoolchildren, truckers, Chicago fishmongers, Cuban cigar makers, a Florida midwife, Nebraskan meatpackers, and blind musicians. Drawing on new discoveries from personal collections, archives, and recent biographies, a new picture has emerged in the last decade of how the participants' individual dramas intersected with the larger picture of their subjects. This book illuminates what it felt like to live that experience, how going from joblessness to reporting on their own communities affected artists with varied visions, as well as what feelings such a passage involved: shame humiliation, anger, excitement, nostalgia, and adventure. Also revealed is how the WPA writers anticipated, and perhaps paved the way for, the political movements of the following decades, including the Civil Rights movement, the Women's Right movement, and the Native American rights movement.