Oral history interview with Harry Hewes and Jay Du Von

New Deal and the Arts Oral History Project.

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Federal writer's project

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Hinton was a former slave who was living in North Carolina at the time of the interview. From the guide to the Martha Adeline Hinton interview, 1937, (L. Tom Perry Special Collections) One of the first actions by President Franklin D. Roosevelt during the Great Depression of the 1930s was to extend federal work relief to the unemployed. One such relief program was the Works Progress Administration, which FDR established in 1933. By 1941 the WPA had provided empl...

Phillips, Harlan B. (Harlan Buddington), 1920-

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Du Von, Jay

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Administrator, Federal Writers' Project. From the description of Jay Du Von interview, 1963 Nov. 7. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 220193282 From the description of Jay Du Von interview, 1963 Nov. 7 [sound recording]. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 276394248 From the description of Oral history interview with Jay Du Von, 1963 Nov. 7 [sound recording]. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 312025570 ...

Hewes, Harry.

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Administrator for the Federal Music Project, Washington, D.C. From the description of Harry Hewes interviews, 1936-1939. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 78067390 Administrators; Illinois and Washington, D.C. Du Von was involved with the Federal Writers' Project and Hewes was involved with the Federal Music Project. From the description of Harry Hewes and Jay Du Von interviews, 1964 Oct. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 220194288 ...

Federal Music Project (U.S.)

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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...