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the WPA arts projects

In april 1935, the American Congress established the WPA-project: Works Progress Adminstration. If you could not find a job during the Depression in the 30's, you could try the WPA, what was better than the dole. The WPA's hope was to put people to work doing what they were trained to do. This was also the case for artists, which was a revolutionnary idea: making plays, books, music and pictures was not considered als 'work'. The New Deal of Roosevelt had been willing to help artists even before...

Engels | 160 pagina's | Delacorte Press, New York | 1976

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