Reminiscences of Ellen Black Winston : oral history, 1982.
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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...
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Biographical Note: Blanche D. Coll is an author and historian whose main area of research has been the history of social welfare in the United States. She was born in Baltimore, Md in 1916 and received the BS (1943) and the MA (1948) degrees from The Johns Hopkins University. Miss Coll's early work in charity organization began with the Family Welfare Association (1935-1940) in Baltimore. She has worked also with several government agencies including HEW. Her published w...
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