Dallas District Four - Works Progess Administration

The stock market crash of 1929 began an unprecedented economic decline in the United States. It precipitated a business depression that closed factories, put millions of people out of work, ruined many banks, and tested the collective will of the country as the "Roaring Twenties" gave way to the "Depressing Thirties."

With several million men and women looking for work, with jobs not to be found, the federal government intervened. Under the leadership of President Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Congress laid the legislative groundwork for the New Deal, a program aimed at the Three R's: relief, recovery, and reform. In 1935, the Works Progress Administration (WPA) began to put people back to work.

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