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Federal Writers' Project: see Work Projects Administration Work Projects Administration (WPA), former U.S. government agency, established in 1935 by executive order of President Franklin Delano Roosevelt as the Works Progress Administration; it was renamed the Work Projects Administration in 1939, when it was made part of ..... Click the link for more information. . |
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| Slave Narratives from the Federal Writers' Project 1936-1938: Stories As A Catalyst for Historical Comprehension In a fascinating section on the American Guide series, put out during the New Deal by the WPA and the Federal Writers' Project, she demonstrates how the series built on earlier travel guides to "catalog and thus legitimize America as a united nation," (219). In the early 1930s, the Federal Writers' Project (FWP)--a part of Franklin Roosevelt's Works Progress Administration--set out to record the memories of surviving slaves. |
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