Federal Writers' Project The WPA guide to America
the best of 1930s America as seen by the Federal Writers' Project
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The Federal writers' project of the Works progress administration was one of the New Deal's greatest undertakings, the American guide series an extraordinary foray into government-sponsored national self-portraiture. Writers got payed by the government during the depression of the 1930s, in exchange for work at the American guides: research into American etnology, zoology, anthropology, sociolgy and folklore. The project produced some 1200 books and pamphlets. Contributors to the guides were later-celebrated writers as Saul Bellow, Nelson Algren and Richard Wright, at its peak 6,686 writers, editors and researchers took part in the project.
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