Day: March 12, 2021
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March 12, 2021
Thanks to Alissa Simon, HMU Tutor, for today’s post.
The Federal Artists’ Project was part of the Works Progress Administration (WPA) which started during the Depression. This program allowed artists, writers, musicians, and actors the ability to earn money at a time when jobs and money were scarce. Writers, for example, collected oral histories from across America in an attempt to understand the country, document hardships and successes,