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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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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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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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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215–220. ISBN 978-0-19-517413-7. Federal Writers' Project (1941). "Federal Writers' Project: Slave Narrative Project, Vol. 2, Arkansas, Part 3, Gadson-Isom"...
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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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Project 2025 (also known as the 2025 Presidential Transition Project) is a political initiative to reshape the federal government of the United States...
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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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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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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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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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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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His nephew, Felix Flying Hawk owned a ranch. According to the Federal Writers' Project, the origin of the name Manderson is obscure. According to the...
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(HRS) was a project of the Works Progress Administration New Deal program in the United States. Originally part of the Federal Writers' Project, it was devoted...
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population of the CDP was 33 at the 2020 census. According to the Federal Writers' Project, the origin of the name Lantry is obscure. It is in the Eagle Butte...
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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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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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Nebraska-Lincoln. Federal Writers Project. (1939) Nebraska. Lincoln, NE: Nebraska State Historical Society. p 134. Federal Writers Project. (1939) Nebraska...
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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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185. Federal Writers' Project 1937, p. 32. Maxwell & Swisher 1897, p. 431. Federal Writers' Project 1937, pp. 32–33. Federal Writers' Project 1937, p...
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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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Nemo has been assigned the ZIP code of 57759. According to the Federal Writers' Project, the origin of the name Nemo is obscure. As of the census of 2010...
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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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called "Lahontan" once stood near the reservoir, which in 1940 the Federal Writers' Project reported had a population of 25. The lake sits within the Lahontan...
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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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stories of former slaves interviewed during the 1930s as part of the Federal Writers' Project and preserved in the WPA Slave Narrative Collection. This HBO film...
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Vardis Fisher (category Federal Writers' Project people)
New York University until 1931. He worked with the Federal Writers' Project to write the Works Project Administration The Idaho Guide, which was published...
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Geographic Names Information System: Spring Gully, South Carolina Federal Writers' Project (1941). Palmetto Place Names. WPA. p. 142. ISBN 978-0-87152-191-0...
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