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South Carolina Public Library History, 1930–1945; WPA Children's Books (1935–1943) Broward County Library's Bienes Museum of the Modern Book; WPA murals: Database of WPA murals Archived 2012-12-05 at archive.today; WPA-FAP Mural Division in NYC, and restoration of murals at the Williamsburg Houses and Hospital for Chronic Diseases on ...
The PWA should not be confused with its great rival, the Works Progress Administration (WPA), though both were part of the New Deal. The WPA, headed by Harry Hopkins, engaged in smaller projects in close cooperation with local governments—such as building city halls, sewers, or sidewalks. The PWA projects were much larger in scope, such as ...
The 1938 WPA history of Jefferson county quotes one Green family member on the controversy: "Col. Jas. Payne Green, writing of Springfield in 1922, states: 'Col. Green's (Thomas) family were the first settlers of this section now known as the Maryland Settlement (Church Hill).
Rowland Haynes, the state's emergency relief director, was the major force in implementing such national programs as the FERA and CWA. Robert L. Cochran, who became governor in 1935, was a "cautious progressive" who sought federal assistance and placed Nebraska among the first American states to adopt a social security law.
Other programs that emerged from Alsberg's desire to create an inclusive "self-portrait of America" were the Life History and Folklore projects. These consisted of first-person narratives and interviews (collected and conducted by FWP workers), which represented people of various ethnicities, regions, and occupations.
President-elect Donald Trump said this week he plans to attend former President Jimmy Carter's funeral following a history of mutual criticism. Carter, who died on Dec. 29 at the age of 100, will ...
The post History, Unwhitened: How America stole Black history appeared first on TheGrio. Michael Harriot explains the difficulty of unwhitening history in an excerpt from his bestselling book ...
From 1937 to 1941, thousands of writers set out around the country to capture America's culture, conducting fieldwork, interviewing citizens, and observing and recording folk traditions and local customs. Writers from all over the country sought to capture American culture during the Great Depression, a difficult task given the dire circumstances.