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	WPA Life Histories--The Federal Writers' Project
		The plight of the unemployed writer, and indeed anyone who could qualify as a writer such as a lawyer, a teacher, or a librarian, during the early years of the Depression, was of concern not only to the Roosevelt Administration, but also to writers' organizations and persons of liberal and academic persuasions.
		The Writers' Project, later characterized by some as the federal government's attempt to "democratize American culture," was approved for federal monies in June, 1935.
		As the Project continued into the late thirties, the director was powerless to stop increasing criticism by reactionary Congressmen who were intent on shutting down the enterprise.
	memory.loc.gov /ammem/wpaintro/wpafwp.html (587 words)

	Federal Writers' Project - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Federal Writers' Project (FWP) was a United States federal government project to fund written work and support writers during the Great Depression.
		FWP was particularly charged with employing writers, editors, historians, researchers, art critics, archaeologists, geologists and cartographers.
		Federal sponsorship for the Federal Writers' Project continued until 1939, though the program was permitted to continue under state sponsorship until April 27, 1943.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Federal_Writers'_Project (776 words)

	F.D.R. and the Federal Writers Project
		The Federal Writers Project was a product of one of the most ambitious research and writing undertakings in American History.
		The project put authors to work preparing state guidebooks, writing historical pamphlets, and recording the points of interest of each state that had decided to partake in the undertaking (West viii).
		The writers of the project were interested in what the townspeople viewed as a main attraction.
	asms.k12.ar.us /armem/virtual_tour2002/LeliaKing/fdr_fed_writers.html (447 words)

	ISLLC: under construction (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		The WPA Federal Writers' Project was part of an initiative instituted while Franklin Delano Roosevelt was President of the United States during the New Deal.
		Consequently, the project also was a means for testing the principles of democratisation so crucial to the FWP's mission to enlighten people about American culture.8 But the ex-slave narratives can be more fully understood if other projects the FWP simultaneously pursued are considered as well.
		The FWP leadership, however, were testing new ground with the Slave Narrative Project and were lacking precedents for a definitive 'academic' approach to the task.
	www.temple.edu /isllc/oral.html (4060 words)

	Federal Writers' Project
		The Illinois Writers' Project, based in downtown Chicago, distinguished itself as one of the most accomplished state offices of the Federal Writers' Project and the Writers' Program that succeeded it.
		These programs were part of a larger national effort from 1935 to 1943 to employ artists and writers who might otherwise have been unable to work during the Great Depression.
		Writers on the project also influenced one another.
	www.encyclopedia.chicagohistory.org /pages/443.html (240 words)

	New Deal Cultural Programs
		The Federal Writers Project employed 6,686 writers at its peak in April 1936, with active projects in all 48 states and the District of Columbia.
		Federal One created opportunities for artists who would have had the greatest difficulties sustaining their work otherwise; and for thousands of people who might never have been able to paint or write or attend live theater themselves.
		Each project was given two months to come up with local sponsors who would pick up 25% of project costs; though it was thought this would lead to the quick death of most activities, even the controversial Federal Writers Project found sponsors for 46 of its 48 projects.
	www.wwcd.org /policy/US/newdeal.html (4418 words)

	Encyclopedia: Federal Writers' Project (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Wikiquote has a collection of quotations related to: New Deal The New Deal is the name given to the series of programs used by Franklin Delano Roosevelt with the goal of stabilizing, reforming and stimulating the United States economy in the Great Depression.
		Initiated under the auspices of the Federal Writers' Project, Gumbo Ya-Ya was compiled by Lyle Saxon, State Director of the Louisiana Project, and was richly illustrated by Caroline Durifux and Roland Duevernet.
		These Are Our Lives is a collection of thirty-five oral autobiographies of fl and white farmers and workers of the South, recorded by Federal Writers' Project people in the states of North Carolina, Tennessee, and Georgia.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Federal-Writers%27-Project (616 words)

	Authors and the Federal Writers' Project: The African-American Mosaic (Library of Congress Exhibition)
		Begun under the auspices of the Federal Writers' Project, the book was completed by the Virginia Project after the demise of the FWP in 1939.
		Initiated under the auspices of the Federal Writers' Project, Gumbo Ya-Ya was compiled by Lyle Saxon, State Director of the Louisiana Project, and was richly illustrated by Caroline Durifux and Roland Duevernet.
		In Drums and Shadows the Georgia Writers' Project chronicled the tenacity of African artistic and linguistic traditions and their influence on American culture.
	www.loc.gov /exhibits/african/afam014.html (590 words)

	Save the Arts Projects
		With drastic cuts in the Federal Arts Projects effective July 15, the arts in America are on their way back where they came from, to the status which made necessary the WPA and white-collar projects.
		The Federal Art Project is notable for art teaching of children centered in New York City, though isolated examples like the work being done in Breathitt County, Kentucky, and in Hawthorne, New York, show what could be done elsewhere.
		Collateral are the survey of federal archives and the historical records survey, which have salvaged valuable public documents.
	newdeal.feri.org /nation/na37145p067.htm (1696 words)

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		By their Federal charter, the Federal Writers' Project was to create a popular consensus that would steer the American public towards an acceptance of the New Deal.
		It is my belief that the Federal Writers, through the establishment and acceptance of these documentary expressions of American cultures of contestation, were able to capture and create an American popular memory from the commoners and transpose these thoughts into writing.
		Manuscripts were routed from the individual writer in the state project to the checker whose duty was to note the arrival of the unproofed copy and be responsible for its whereabouts while it was in Washington DC.
	www.49thparallel.bham.ac.uk /back/issue2/dittman.htm (3709 words)

	FEDERAL WRITERS PROJECT (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		A later transfer of the Writers' Project to state control and a full-scale change of staff quashed these plans, but nevertheless the work added a great deal of African-American cultural material to the WPA files for future historians.
		On April 22, 1940 the project reopened as a statewide WPA project with Angie Debo as the director and with a goal of completing the state guide book.
		The controversy surrounding many project workers, the publication of the labor history, and Gov. Phillips' boast about purging radicals may have led the university to distance itself from the Writers' Project.
	www.ok-history.mus.ok.us /enc/fedwriters.htm (1370 words)

	Federal Writers' Project
		Although performers were only paid $22.73 a week, the FWP employed some of America's most talented artists.
		Thomas claimed that: "Practically every play presented under the auspices of the Project is sheer propaganda for Communism or the New Deal." As a result of these complaints, Congress abolished the project.
		Some states decided to continue with the scheme when federal funding ceased in 1943.
	www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk /USARfwp.htm (525 words)

	Federal Writers Project
		Initiated under the auspices of the Federal Writers' Project, Gumbo Ya-Ya was compiled by Lyle Saxon, State Director of...
		The Federal Writers' Project of the 1930s recorded more than 10,000 life stories of men and woman from a variety of...
		Born in Slavery: Slave Narratives from the Federal Writers' Project, 1936-1938
	www.writingspot.com /60/federal-writers-project.html (553 words)

	The Federal Writers Project (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		The Federal Writers Project (FWP) of the Works Progress administration funded by the United States government during the 1930s to collect American history through oral narratives, including the testimonies of former slaves.
		Although their accuracy and usefulness have been debated, the slave narratives collected through the Federal Writers' Project added significantly to the study of slavery in the United States.
		The Writers' Project hired unemployed writers to collect folklore and histories from each state for a series of books called Guide to America.
	daphne.palomar.edu /marguello_students/Spring_2003/005396265/FWP.htm (313 words)

	Authors and the Federal Writers' Project: The African-American Mosaic (Library of Congress Exhibition)
		Begun under the auspices of the Federal Writers' Project, the book was completed by the Virginia Project after the demise of the FWP in 1939.
		The idea of the autobiographies, as expressed by their initiator, W.T. Couch, of the North Carolina Project, was to "get life histories which are readable and faithful representations of living persons, and which.
		In Drums and Shadows the Georgia Writers' Project chronicled the tenacity of African artistic and linguistic traditions and their influence on American culture.
	lcweb.loc.gov /exhibits/african/afam014.html (590 words)

	Federal Project Number One
		Known as "Federal One" for short, Federal Project Number One was created in 1935 as a subdivision of the Works Progress Administration (WPA) that sought to extend the relief of the New Deal to artists, actors, writers, and musicians.
		ER lent her wholehearted support to the creation of the Federal One programs, lobbied FDR to sign the executive order creating them, praised the projects in her columns and speeches, and defended them against congressional critics.
		ER felt particularly attached to Federal One's Federal Theater Project and she delighted in the artistic work that she saw being crafted with federal dollars.
	www.nps.gov /elro/glossary/federal-project-number1.htm (385 words)

	Works Progress Administration - Historical Records Survey
		However, federal funding for the WPA decreased over the years, and certain projects were terminated.
		While critics might argue that federal money was wasted on unnecessary projects, it is clear that the work of the WPA fostered a greater appreciation for the arts and humanities.
		Likewise, the projects of the HRS created interest in the research of history and genealogy, which subsequently spurned the restoration of old cemeteries, erection of monuments, and establishment of societies and clubs.
	www.interment.net /column/records/wpa/wpa_history.htm (923 words)

	The WPA Arts Projects during the Depression
		When the WPA was established, its director Harry L. Hopkins and his staff argued that writers, artists, musicians and theatre people were out of work as well as laborers and farmers.
		The Writers Project had perhaps the greatest impact of the three WPA Arts projects.
		For a country starved for reassurance in the grips of the Depression the FWP director Henry Alsberg said, "The purpose of the American Guide is to assemble all the data that some 125,000,000 inhabitants possess about their country, boil it down to convenient size...
	www.livinghistoryfarm.org /farminginthe30s/money_17.html (540 words)

	Susan Schulten \| How to See Colorado: The Federal Writers' Project, American Regionalism, and the "Old New Western ...
		This guide project was a massive achievement, lauded by contemporaries for painting a fresh social, cultural, and historical portrait of the nation.
		While these goals illustrate the initial ideals of the project, they are but half the story, for the guides were produced through the interaction of the national and state offices.
		This is especially true for Colorado: the state's distance from the national editorial office—both geographically and culturally—as well as the relative inexperience of the state's writers highlights the very real differences between local and national visions of Colorado and the West, and offers rich material for studying the evolution of regionalism and western history.
	www.historycooperative.org /journals/whq/36.1/schulten.html (634 words)

	Federal Writers' Project on Encyclopedia.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
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		How to get a job in the Federal Government: if you're looking for a job, consider the Nation's largest employer.
	www.encyclopedia.com /html/x/x-f1edw1p1.asp (367 words)

	Alibris: Used, New and Out-of-Print Books, Music and Movies
		From 1935–1942, the FWP produced more than temporary employment—it jumpstarted the careers of scores of talented writers, including such literary luminaries as Richard Wright, Dorothy West, Nelson Algren, Margaret Walker, Zora Neale Hurston, Studs Terkel, and Saul Bellow.
		Richard Wright was supported by the FWP when he found the inspiration for his groundbreaking novel Native Son.
		Project writers often came across citizens who were reluctant to participate in interviews, and, later, many writers refused to admit working for the program because of the controversy over its origins and purpose.
	www.alibris.com /articles_features/features/wpa/introwpa.cfm (922 words)

	Amazon.com: Go Gator and Muddy the Water: Writings by Zora Neale Hurston from the Federal Writers Project: Books: Zora ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		The FWP, a federally funded relief program that provided impoverished writers with employment, offered Hurston the lowliest position of "relief reporter," a title for which she was clearly overqualified.
		As a reporter for the FWP she was assigned to write 1500 words per week describing the lore of African-American Floridians, as part of a larger project, which was never realized and which, moreover, deleted most of Hurston's contributions from the manuscript-in-progress.
		Other work she submitted for the FWP was often ignored or heavily edited; a few pieces were included in an automotive guidebook, Florida.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0393046958?v=glance (992 words)

	Narrative Writing: The Federal Writers' Project, Grade 8 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		The writer builds his/her message for the reader by focusing on a central idea (the message), providing elaboration of that central idea, and delivering the central idea and its elaboration in an organized text.
		The writer repeats or varies sentence construction for effect and appropriately subordinates ideas and embeds modifiers on a regular basis, resulting in a rhythmic flow throughout the piece.
		However, the writer's control of the domain's many features is too strong for these mistakes to detract from the performance.
	www.teachers.henrico.k12.va.us /Specialist/franceslively/unitplans/fedwrite8.htm (2473 words)

	Exploring Race and the Federal Writers’ Project’s Interviewers
		In the late 1930’s a great project to record people’s lives took place throughout the South, and while these works have been rediscovered, the writers themselves have disappeared into history.
		The white writers of the 1930’s Jim Crow era require analysis in order to understand both their written works and their lives.
		While neither of the WPA writers had garages, the houses facing Prince seemed to be generally larger than the neighborhood houses as a whole.
	www.arches.uga.edu /~mgagnon/students/3090/04SP3090-Harris.htm (3434 words)

	Reader's Companion to American History - -FEDERAL WRITERS' PROJECT (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		A small but significant portion of wpa funds were used to support several controversial public works projects in the arts, marking the first time in American history that the federal government granted substantial subsidies to writers and artists.
		The fwp employed a number of now well-known writers, such as Conrad Aiken, Saul Bellow, Ralph Ellison, and John Cheever, and many received crucial support for their budding careers.
		The Federal Writers' Project ceased when the wpa was terminated in 1943.
	college.hmco.com /history/readerscomp/rcah/html/ah_030800_federalwrite.htm (303 words)

	WPA Federal Art Project
		This program was short lived, however, Harry Hopkins transitioning from the Federal Emergency Relief Administration to the Works Progress Administration (WPA), created the Federal Arts Project (FAP) in 1935 and directed by Holger Cahill.
		After being selected to be on the project, artists were reviewed periodically and could be removed from a project if their financial status changed or if their work was unsatisfactory.
		Federal Art Project (FAP) lists all of Joan van Breeman's pieces in public buildings as "Children at Play." All the unrestored pieces are basically the same color and relief; however, my lack of photographic art ability renders them here according to the color of the available light.
	www.keyshistory.org /artwpa.html (976 words)

	Federal Writers' Project
		The plan was ambitious: open an office in every state, hire more than 6,000 hungry people desperate for work, and pay them a subsistence wage (about $20 a week) to document the culture and landscape of America and create marketable publications.
		The mission of the Federal Writers' Project, in addition to providing security wages for unemployed clerks, writers, editors, lawyers, teachers, librarians, and archivists, was the compilation of state, local, and specialized guidebooks, as well as anthologies of oral history, folklore, and music.
		From 1935 to 1942, the FWP produced temporary employment for and jump-started the careers of scores of talented writers.
	www.lva.lib.va.us /whoweare/exhibits/newdeal/federal.htm (175 words)

	Alibris: Federal Writers Project
		This tour guide for time travelers offers New York lovers and 1930s buffs an endlessly fascinating look at life as it was lived in the days when a trolley ride cost five cents, a room at the Plaza was $7.50, and the new World's Fair was the talk of the town.
		First published in the famous American Guide Series of the Work Projects Administration in 1941, Wyoming: A Guide remains a distinguished survey of the state, its centers of interest, and its history.
		In the 1930s, at the height of the Great Depression, the federal government put thousands of unemployed writers to work in the Federal Writers Project of the Works Progress Administration (WPA).
	www.alibris.com /search/books/author/Federal_Writers_Project (446 words)

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