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COPYRIGHT 2004 Global Information Network
By Louise Bernikow
NEW YORK, December 31 2004 (WOMENSENEWS) The Works Progress Administration, financed by the federal government during the Great Depression in the 1930s, was the largest public relief project ever attempted. It set thousands of unemployed Americans to work building roads and bridges, sweeping streets, and, through its Writers Project, recording daily life.
In New York City, aspiring African American...
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