United States. Works Progress Administration
Biography
The Works Progress Administration was a government agency involved in public works programs. The agency was established in 1935 as part of the New Deal, and employed millions of Americans. The program was renamed the Work Projects Administration in 1939.
Citation:
Encylopedia Brittanica, via www, February 2, 2022 (The Works Progress Administration was a government agency involved in public works programs. The agency was established in 1935 as part of the New Deal, and employed millions of Americans. The program was renamed the Work Projects Administration in 1939)Found in 4 Collections and/or Records:
Henry Bobbitt interview
Interviews with former slaves in Alabama
Photocopies of microfilmed copies of typewritten interviews. These interviews were conducted under the authority of the Federal Writers' Project for the WPA. The former slaves discuss their earlier experiences in servitude. They talk about being made free and their encounters with the Ku-Klux Klan (1866-1869).
Interviews with former slaves in North Carolina
Photocopies of microfilmed copies of typescripts of interviews. These interviews were conducted in 1937 as part of the Federal Writer's Project for the Works Progress Administration. The items include handwritten corrections. Former slaves in North Carolina were interviewed, and they tell about their experiences as slaves and after they were made free.
Interviews with former slaves living in Ohio
Photocopies of microfilmed copies of typewritten interviews. These items are interviews with former slaves living in Ohio in 1937. Some of them tell about their experiences with the Ku-Klux Klan.