Federal One
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Federal Project Number One was the collective name for a group of projects under the Work Projects Administration, a New Deal
program in the United States
. The five elements of the program were:
It was part of Franklin Delano Roosevelt's Second New Deal, and was the largest of its projects.
New Deal
The New Deal was a series of economic programs implemented in the United States between 1933 and 1936. They were passed by the U.S. Congress during the first term of President Franklin D. Roosevelt. The programs were Roosevelt's responses to the Great Depression, and focused on what historians call...
program in the United States
United States
The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...
. The five elements of the program were:
- Federal Writers' ProjectFederal Writers' ProjectThe Federal Writers' Project was a United States federal government project to fund written work and support writers during the Great Depression. It was part of the Works Progress Administration, a New Deal program...
(FWP) - Historical Records SurveyHistorical Records SurveyThe Historical Records Survey was a project of the Works Progress Administration New Deal program in the United States. Originally part of the Federal Writers' Project, it was devoted to surveying and indexing historically significant records in state, county and local archives...
(HRS, originally part of the FWP) - Federal Theatre ProjectFederal Theatre ProjectThe Federal Theatre Project was a New Deal project to fund theatre and other live artistic performances in the United States during the Great Depression. It was one of five Federal One projects sponsored by the Works Progress Administration...
(FTP) - Federal Music ProjectFederal Music ProjectThe Federal Music Project , part of the Federal government of the United States New Deal program Federal One, employed musicians, conductors and composers during the Great Depression. People in the music world had been particularly hard-hit by the era's economic downturn...
(FMP) - Federal Art ProjectFederal Art ProjectThe Federal Art Project was the visual arts arm of the Great Depression-era New Deal Works Progress Administration Federal One program in the United States. It operated from August 29, 1935, until June 30, 1943. Reputed to have created more than 200,000 separate works, FAP artists created...
(FAP)
It was part of Franklin Delano Roosevelt's Second New Deal, and was the largest of its projects.
See also
- Mathematical Tables ProjectMathematical Tables ProjectThe Mathematical Tables Project was one of the largest and most sophisticated computing organizations that operated prior to the invention of the digital electronic computer. Begun in 1938 as a project of the Works Progress Administration , it employed 450 out-of-work clerks to tabulate higher...
- Harry HopkinsHarry HopkinsHarry Lloyd Hopkins was one of Franklin Delano Roosevelt's closest advisers. He was one of the architects of the New Deal, especially the relief programs of the Works Progress Administration , which he directed and built into the largest employer in the country...
External links
- Footage of the Federal Theatre Project's 1936 "Voodoo Macbeth" - with informative annotations.
- National Archives and Records Administration: A New Deal for the Arts
- New Deal Cultural Programs: Experiments in Cultural Democracy
- Eleanor Roosevelt National Historic Site: Federal Project Number One
- McCausland, Elizabeth, "Save the Arts Projects," The Nation, July 17, 1937