WPA Records - Dallas District Four 1935-1942
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United States. Works Progress Administration
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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...
Dallas District Four - Works Progess Administration
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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 Frankl...
