New Deal Findings: Art and Theater - 7 views

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  #1 Kay Bradley on 24 Mar 11

   

  Works Progress Administration; theater, murals (Diego Rivera); newspaper; slave narratives
  
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  #2 Alexander Luckmann on 25 Mar 11

   

  WPA was a major artistic program.
  - Employed muralists like Diego Rivera
  - WPA built Davies Tennis Stadium in Oakland in an old mine cutting
  - A lot of WPA relief went to African-Americans
  - Original congressional appropriation was $4,880,000,000
  http://www.wpamurals.com/
  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Works_Progress_Administration
  http://www.indiana.edu/~liblilly/wpa/wpa_info.html

   

  <div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">WPA was a major artistic program. <br /> - Employed muralists like Diego Rivera <br /> - WPA built Davies Tennis Stadium in Oakland in an old mine cutting <br /> - A lot of WPA relief went to African-Americans <br /> - Original congressional appropriation was $4,880,000,000 <br /> <a target="_blank" href="http://www.wpamurals.com/" rel="nofollow">http://www.wpamurals.com/</a> <br /> <a target="_blank" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Works_Progress_Administration" rel="nofollow">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Works_Progress_Administration</a> <br /> <a target="_blank" href="http://www.indiana.edu/%7Eliblilly/wpa/wpa_info.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.indiana.edu/~liblilly/wpa/wpa_info.html</a></div>

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