W.P.A. Iowa Folklore Project files, ca1936-1942.
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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...
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...
Federal Writers' Project of the Works Progress Administration
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The Iowa Folklore Project was a unit within the state's Federal Writers' Project, a division of the Works Progress Administration. Workers with the folklore program were instructed to interview Iowans and collect information on ethnic traditions, local legends and pioneer tales, superstitions and folk beliefs, local expressions and slang language. The Federal Writers' Project was funded by the U.S. government from 1935-1939, but state programs often continued through the early 1940s. ...
