The Federal Writers' Project (FWP) was a federal government project in the United States created to provide jobs for out-of-work writers and to develop...
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actors and writers under the WPA's Federal Project Number One.: 44 In its prime, Federal Project Number One employed up to 40,000 writers, musicians...
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Delia Garlic (category Federal Writers' Project people)
freedom. In 1937 when she was one hundred years old, the Federal Writers' Project of The Works Project Administration recorded her oral history, in Montgomery...
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Works Progress Administration (redirect from Works Project Administration)
The five projects dedicated to these were the Federal Writers' Project (FWP), the Historical Records Survey (HRS), the Federal Theatre Project (FTP), the...
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from the Federal Writers' Project, 1936 to 1938: 199. Retrieved 8 January 2022. Federal Writers' Project (1936). "Federal Writers' Project: Slave Narrative...
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the United States federal government and consolidate executive power if Donald Trump wins the 2024 presidential election. The Project plans to assert that...
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States the Federal Writers' Project was established as part of the WPA. Its goal was to offer paid employment to thousands of unemployed writers by engaging...
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Downtown Omaha, as well. According to a 1939 publication by the Federal Writers Project, the downtown core has at least 23 historic sites that were central...
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Marcus Bruce Christian (category 20th-century African-American writers)
History of The Negro in Louisiana during his stint at the Negro Federal Writers Project at Dillard University. After his death, his family bequeathed 256...
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2006. Federal Writers' Project (1955). New Jersey: A Guide to Its Present and Past. New York: Hastings House. p. 605. Federal Writers' Project (1955)...
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from the Federal Writers' Project, 1936 to 1938. 3: 353. Retrieved 1 August 2021. Federal Writers' Project (1936–1938). "Federal Writers' Project: Slave...
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Henry Alsberg (category Writers from Manhattan)
1970) was an American journalist and writer who served as the founding director of the Federal Writers' Project. A lawyer by training, he was a foreign...
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link] Britannica 1910. Federal Writers' Project 1939a, p. 248. Federal Writers' Project 1939a, p. 247. Whitehead 2009. Davies Project. "American Libraries...
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Margaret O'Neal (section Federal Writers' Project)
was interviewed by William O. Forster on October 4, 1938 for the Federal Writers' Project. She married Ed O’Neal and together they had five boys, but raised...
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Black Cabinet (redirect from Federal Council of Negro Affairs)
documented families across the South and in northern cities. The Federal Writers' Project paid its workers $20 a week, and they wrote histories of every...
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Slave Narrative Collection (redirect from Federal Writers Project Slave Narratives)
collection of histories by formerly enslaved people undertaken by the Federal Writers' Project of the Works Progress Administration from 1936 to 1938. It was...
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American Guide Series (category New Deal projects of the arts)
pamphlets published from 1937 to 1941 under the auspices of the Federal Writers' Project (FWP), a Depression-era program that was part of the larger Works...
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p. 283. Fortier 1904, pp. 68, 101. Fortier 1904, pp. 143–144. Federal Writers' Project 1941, p. 44. Fortier 1909, p. 142. Fortier 1909, p. 154. Fortier...
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A Guide to the Granite State, Federal Writers Project, Houghton Mifflin Company, Boston, 1938. Federal Writers' Project. 1938. ISBN 9781603540285. Archived...
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America Eats was a project under the Federal Writers' Project (FWP) during the 1930s in the United States. The FWP was one of the many projects contained within...
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ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved November 29, 2019. Dolkart 1998, p. 50. Federal Writers Project 1939, p. 380. Hall 1920, p. 25. Landmarks Preservation Commission...
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the Federal Writers' Project, 1936 to 1938 (603). 2 (3): 364. Retrieved 26 October 2021. Federal Writers' Project (1938). "Federal Writers' Project: Slave...
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Stetson Kennedy (category Federal Writers' Project people)
during his time with the Federal Writers' Project for his first book, Palmetto Country (1942). It was commissioned by Georgia writer Erskine Caldwell for...
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original Time & Life Building became known as 1 Rockefeller Plaza. Federal Writers' Project 1939, p. 334. Adams 1985, p. 13. Jackson 2010, p. 1115. Fitch &...
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Paul Comly French (category Recipients of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany)
acrimonious relationship with Henry Alsberg the national director of the Federal Writers Project and, among all the state directors, was one of the few to constantly...
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In the early 1930s, Thompson worked as the head of the Oklahoma Federal Writers Project, one of several New Deal programs intended to provide work for...
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Mountain View, Oakland, Sacramento, San Francisco Britannica 1910. Federal Writers' Project 1940, p. 486. "Mission San Jose". www.missionsanjose.org. Retrieved...
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is a stream in the U.S. state of South Dakota. According to the Federal Writers' Project, Foot Creek derives its name from an obscure settler named Foote...
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musicians, writers and actors under the WPA's Federal Project Number One.: 44 Government relief efforts funding theatre through the Federal Emergency...
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Arkansas (category Pages using Sister project links with hidden wikidata)
JSTOR 4126919. Federal Writers' Project 1987, p. 13. Federal Writers' Project 1987, p. 12. Federal Writers' Project 1987, pp. 12–13. Federal Writers' Project 1987...
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