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59 relations: American Guide Series, Anzia Yezierska, Arna Bontemps, Arnold S. Eagle, Benjamin A. Botkin, Chicago, Claude McKay, Conrad Aiken, Cradle Will Rock, Dorothy West, Douglas Brinkley, Eliot Elisofon, Emergency Relief Appropriation Act of 1935, Federal Project Number One, Federal Theatre Project, Frank Yerby, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Great Depression, Hallie Flanagan, Harlem Renaissance, Harry Partch, House Un-American Activities Committee, Internet Archive, Irving Fiske, Jerre Mangione, Jim Thompson (writer), John Cheever, Katherine Dunham, Kenneth Patchen, Kenneth Rexroth, Leon Srabian Herald, Loren Eiseley, Margaret Walker, Martin Dies Jr., Maxwell Bodenheim, May Swenson, National Endowment for the Humanities, Nelson Algren, New Deal, Puerto Rico, Ralph Ellison, Richard Wright (author), Robert Hayden, Sacco and Vanzetti, Saul Bellow, Slave Narrative Collection, Smithsonian Channel, Stetson Kennedy, Studs Terkel, Territory of Alaska, ..., Unchained Memories, Vardis Fisher, Vincent McHugh, Washington, D.C., Weldon Kees, William Attaway, Works Progress Administration, Zora Neale Hurston, 1912 Lawrence textile strike. Expand index (9 more) »
American Guide Series
The American Guide Series was a group of books and pamphlets published in 1937–41 under the auspices of the Federal Writers' Project (FWP), a Depression-era works program in the United States.
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Anzia Yezierska
Anzia Yezierska was a Jewish-American novelist born in Mały Płock, Poland, which was then part of the Russian Empire.
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Arna Bontemps
Arna Wendell Bontemps (October 13, 1902 – June 4, 1973) was an American poet, novelist and librarian, and a noted member of the Harlem Renaissance.
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Arnold S. Eagle
Arnold Eagle (1909 Budapest, Hungary - October 25, 1992 New York City) was a Hungarian-American photographer and cinematographer, known for his socially concerned documentary photographs of the 1930s and 1940s.
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Benjamin A. Botkin
Benjamin Albert Botkin (February 7, 1901 – July 30, 1975) was an American folklorist and scholar.
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Chicago
Chicago, officially the City of Chicago, is the third most populous city in the United States, after New York City and Los Angeles.
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Claude McKay
Festus Claudius "Claude" McKay (September 15, 1889 – May 22, 1948) was a Jamaican writer and poet, who was a seminal figure in the Harlem Renaissance.
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Conrad Aiken
Conrad Potter Aiken (August 5, 1889 – August 17, 1973) was an American writer, whose work includes poetry, short stories, novels, a play, and an autobiography.
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Cradle Will Rock
Cradle Will Rock is a 1999 American historical drama film written, produced and directed by Tim Robbins.
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Dorothy West
Dorothy West (June 2, 1907 – August 16, 1998) was a novelist and short story writer during the time of the Harlem Renaissance.
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Douglas Brinkley
Douglas Brinkley (born December 14, 1960) is an American author and a professor of history at Rice University.
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Eliot Elisofon
Eliot Elisofon (April 17, 1911 – April 7, 1973) was an American documentary photographer and photojournalist.
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Emergency Relief Appropriation Act of 1935
The Emergency Relief Appropriation Act of 1935 was passed on April 8, 1935, as a part of Franklin Delano Roosevelt's New Deal.
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Federal Project Number One
Federal Project Number One is the collective name for a group of projects under the Works Progress Administration, a New Deal program in the United States.
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Federal Theatre Project
The Federal Theatre Project (FTP; 1935–39) was a New Deal program to fund theatre and other live artistic performances and entertainment programs in the United States during the Great Depression.
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Frank Yerby
Frank Yerby (–) was an American writer, best known for his 1946 historical novel The Foxes of Harrow.
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Franklin D. Roosevelt
Franklin Delano Roosevelt Sr. (January 30, 1882 – April 12, 1945), often referred to by his initials FDR, was an American statesman and political leader who served as the 32nd President of the United States from 1933 until his death in 1945.
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Great Depression
The Great Depression was a severe worldwide economic depression that took place mostly during the 1930s, beginning in the United States.
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Hallie Flanagan
Hallie Flanagan Davis (August 27, 1890 in Redfield, South Dakota – June 23, 1969 in Old Tappan, New Jersey) was an American theatrical producer and director, playwright, and author, best known as director of the Federal Theatre Project, a part of the Works Progress Administration (WPA).
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Harlem Renaissance
The Harlem Renaissance was an intellectual, social, and artistic explosion that took place in Harlem, New York, spanning the 1920s.
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Harry Partch
Harry Partch (June 24, 1901 – September 3, 1974) was an American composer, music theorist, and creator of musical instruments.
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House Un-American Activities Committee
The House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC, or House Committee on Un-American Activities, or HCUA) was an investigative committee of the United States House of Representatives.
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Internet Archive
The Internet Archive is a San Francisco–based nonprofit digital library with the stated mission of "universal access to all knowledge." It provides free public access to collections of digitized materials, including websites, software applications/games, music, movies/videos, moving images, and nearly three million public-domain books.
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Irving Fiske
Irving L. Fiske (born Irving Louis Fishman; March 5, 1908 – April 25, 1990) was an American playwright, writer, and public speaker.
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Jerre Mangione
Jerre (Gerlando) Mangione (March 20, 1909 – August 16, 1998) was an American writer and scholar of the Sicilian-American experience.
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Jim Thompson (writer)
James Myers Thompson (September 27, 1906 – April 7, 1977) was an American author and screenwriter, known for his hardboiled crime fiction.
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John Cheever
John William Cheever (May 27, 1912 – June 18, 1982) was an American novelist and short story writer.
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Katherine Dunham
Katherine Mary Dunham (also known as Kaye Dunn, June 22, 1909 – May 21, 2006) was an American dancer, choreographer, author, educator, and social activist.
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Kenneth Patchen
Kenneth Patchen (December 13, 1911January 8, 1972) was an American poet and novelist.
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Kenneth Rexroth
Kenneth Charles Marion Rexroth (December 22, 1905 – June 6, 1982) was an American poet, translator and critical essayist.
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Leon Srabian Herald
Leon Srabian Herald (born Leon Der Srabian; 15 May 1896 – 7 September 1976) was an Armenian-American poet who wrote the first English-language by an Armenian author on the subject of the Armenian Genocide.
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Loren Eiseley
Loren Eiseley (September 3, 1907 – July 9, 1977) was an American anthropologist, educator, philosopher, and natural science writer, who taught and published books from the 1950s through the 1970s.
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Margaret Walker
Margaret Walker (Margaret Abigail Walker Alexander by marriage; July 7, 1915 – November 30, 1998) was an American poet and writer.
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Martin Dies Jr.
Martin Dies Jr. (November 5, 1900 – November 14, 1972) was a Texas politician and a Democratic member of the United States House of Representatives.
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Maxwell Bodenheim
Maxwell Bodenheim (May 26, 1892 – February 6, 1954) was an American poet and novelist.
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May Swenson
Anna Thilda May "May" Swenson (May 28, 1913 – December 4, 1989) was an American poet and playwright.
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National Endowment for the Humanities
The National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) is an independent federal agency of the U.S. government, established by the National Foundation on the Arts and the Humanities Act of 1965, dedicated to supporting research, education, preservation, and public programs in the humanities.
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Nelson Algren
Nelson Algren (March 28, 1909 – May 9, 1981) was an American writer.
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New Deal
The New Deal was a series of programs, public work projects, financial reforms and regulations enacted in the United States 1933-36, in response to the Great Depression.
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Puerto Rico
Puerto Rico (Spanish for "Rich Port"), officially the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico (Estado Libre Asociado de Puerto Rico, "Free Associated State of Puerto Rico") and briefly called Porto Rico, is an unincorporated territory of the United States located in the northeast Caribbean Sea.
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Ralph Ellison
Ralph Waldo Ellison (March 1, 1913 – April 16, 1994) was an American novelist, literary critic, and scholar.
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Richard Wright (author)
Richard Nathaniel Wright (September 4, 1908 – November 28, 1960) was an American author of sometimes controversial novels, short stories, poems, and non-fiction.
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Robert Hayden
Robert Hayden (4 August 1913 – 25 February 1980) was an American poet, essayist, and educator.
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Sacco and Vanzetti
Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti were Italian-born American anarchists who were controversially convicted of murdering a guard and a paymaster during the April 15, 1920 armed robbery of the Slater and Morrill Shoe Company in Braintree, Massachusetts, United States.
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Saul Bellow
Saul Bellow (born Solomon Bellows; 10 June 1915 – 5 April 2005) was a Canadian-American writer.
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Slave Narrative Collection
Slave Narratives: A Folk History of Slavery in the United States (often referred to as the WPA Slave Narrative Collection) was a massive compilation of histories by former slaves undertaken by the Federal Writers' Project of the Works Progress Administration from 1936 to 1938.
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Smithsonian Channel
Smithsonian Networks is a joint venture between CBS Corporation's Showtime Networks, Inc. and the Smithsonian Institution.
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Stetson Kennedy
William Stetson Kennedy (October 5, 1916 – August 27, 2011) was an American author, folklorist, and human rights activist.
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Studs Terkel
Louis "Studs" Terkel (May 16, 1912 – October 31, 2008) was an American author, historian, actor, and broadcaster.
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Territory of Alaska
The Territory of Alaska or Alaska Territory was an organized incorporated territory of the United States that existed from August 24, 1912, until January 3, 1959, when it was admitted to the Union as the State of Alaska.
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Unchained Memories
Unchained Memories is a 2003 documentary film about the stories of former slaves interviewed during the 1930s as part of the Federal Writers' Project and preserved in the WPA Slave Narrative Collection.
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Vardis Fisher
Vardis Alvero Fisher (March 31, 1895 – July 9, 1968) was an American writer best known for his popular historical novels of the Old West.
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Vincent McHugh
Vincent McHugh (died 1977) was an Irish Fine Gael politician.
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Washington, D.C.
Washington, D.C., formally the District of Columbia and commonly referred to as Washington or D.C., is the capital of the United States of America.
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Weldon Kees
Harry Weldon Kees (February 24, 1914 – July 18, 1955) was an American poet, painter, literary critic, novelist, playwright, jazz pianist, short story writer, and filmmaker.
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William Attaway
William Alexander Attaway (November 19, 1911 – June 17, 1986) was an African-American novelist, short story writer, essayist, songwriter, playwright, and screenwriter.
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Works Progress Administration
The Works Progress Administration (WPA; renamed in 1939 as the Work Projects Administration) was the largest and most ambitious American New Deal agency, employing millions of people (mostly unskilled men) to carry out public works projects, including the construction of public buildings and roads.
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Zora Neale Hurston
Zora Neale Hurston (January 7, 1891 – January 28, 1960) was an influential author of African-American literature and anthropologist, who portrayed racial struggles in the early 20th century American South, and published research on Haitian voodoo.
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1912 Lawrence textile strike
The Lawrence textile strike was a strike of immigrant workers in Lawrence, Massachusetts, in 1912 led by the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW).
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References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federal_Writers'_Project
