Today in history
Subtitle: April 8
Publisher: Library of Congress
Published: 1999
Place of publication: Washington, DC
Language: eng
Format: [electronic resource]
Subjects: United States. Works Progress Administration; United States; Federal Writers' Project; Federal Theatre Project (U.S.); Federal Art Project
Other titles: April 8; Works Progress Administration
Description: Presents information on the Works Progress Administration (WPA), approved by Congress on April 8, 1935. Features the Federal Writers' Project, targeted to people with skills in the literary arts; the Federal Theatre Project, which employed out-of-work actors, musicians, vaudevillians, and theater technicians in performances of classical and modern plays; and, the Federal Art Project, which targeted out-of-work visual artists for employment.
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Illustrated by digitized items from the American Memory historic collections compiled by the National Digital Library Program of the Library of Congress.

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