Works Progress Administration oral histories collection 1961-1984
Related Entities
There are 5 Entities related to this resource.
United States. Works Progress Administration
http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w67b4x1k (corporateBody)
Organizational History President Franklin D. Roosevelt established the Works Progress Administration (WPA) in 1935 as a part of his New Deal to curtail the Depression's effects on the United States. The WPA attempted to provide the unemployed with jobs that allowed individuals to preserve skills or talents. The Federal Writers' Project (FWP), one branch of the WPA, provided work for over 6,600 unemployed writers, journalists, edit...
Federal Theatre Project (U.S.)
http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6dc8rxk (corporateBody)
The Federal Theatre Project was a theatre program established during the Great Depression as part of the New Deal to fund live artistic performances and entertainment programs in the United States. It was one of five Federal Project Number One projects sponsored by the Works Progress Administration, created not as a cultural activity but as a relief measure to employ artists, writers, directors, and theater workers. It was shaped by national director Hallie Flanagan into a federation of regional...
George Mason University. Institute on the Federal Theatre Project and New Deal Culture
http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w62r7gpf (corporateBody)
The interviews in the WPA Oral Histories Collection were conducted from between 1961 and 1984. The majority of the interviews were done in the 1970s and 1980s by Lorraine Brown and John O'Connor as part of the Institute on the Federal Theatre Project and New Deal Culture. From the description of Works Progress Administration oral histories collection, 1961-1984. (George Mason University). WorldCat record id: 614020226 From the guide to the Works Progress Administration oral ...
Federal Music Project (U.S.)
http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6t767zd (corporateBody)
The prime objective of the Federal Music Project (1935-1939) and the subsequent WPA Music Program (1939-1943) was "...to give employment to professional musicians registered on the relief rolls." The project employed these musicians as instrumentalists, singers, concert performers and teachers of music. The general purpose of the Music Project was to establish high standards of musicianship, to rehabilitate musicians by assisting them to become self-supporting, to retrain musicians and to educat...
Federal Art Project
http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6jt3cth (corporateBody)
The FAP projects included a broad range of events and activities which generated the various publications and materials found in the central files of the general subject series. ART FOR THE MILLIONS was a publication project about the accomplishments of the FAP consisting of a series of articles by Project workers. In addition to creating work for artists, the FAP sought to increase art appreciation as well as art sales among the general public. In doing so it devised a plan which created Nation...
