Talk:Works Progress Administration

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I object to the statement that the WPA was "manipulated" by left-wingers. This sounds like a Fox News cheap shot. While HUAC held hearings into communist influence in the WPA, it never found any -- the hearings were a "show trial" designed to build the political carers of a few Congresional blow-hards.


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[edit] Help?

I am doing research over both the WPA in Oklahoma and also African Americans in the WPA. Does anyone have any ideas for good sources for these lines of research? If you have any ideas, please email me: seekingtruthnow@yahoo.com, Thanks, Dan.

[edit] TVA ?

Someone might want to investigate the statement that the WPA was responsible for the TVA.

I am almost certain that the Public Works Administration (the PWA, which was *not* the WPA) was the agency involved in building projects like the Tennessee Valley Authority, Hoover Dam, etc.

Wahkeenah 13:03, 20 Apr 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Broken Houston City Hall Link

I would fix the broken link so that it would link to a picture of it available at the Houston article, but it has bad copyright status. Any ideas? Mihirgk 20:33, 4 March 2006 (UTC)

[edit]  ??

Wasn't the WPA set up by Congress in response to a request by Roosevelt...

It's what my textbook says (A History of the United States, Boorstin and Kelley). This book has not made an error like this before, so would someone please tell me which is right??


See Howard pp 106-7. Congress passed funding bills every year for the WPA, but did not lay out the structure or mission of the agency; FDR did that. Rjensen 12:22, 13 April 2006 (UTC)

[edit] great depression progect help

I am doing a progect on the WPA for school. For this progect i will need to know these things

    1.what was the work being done by the agency

    2.how was the work being portrayed 

    3.how did the agency benifit the public
      
         and for the poster

    4.how does the poster present the new deal's broader idea of active government as a solution to the problems created by the great depession.

        if you think you can help me with any of these questions, please email me at heedeeho@yahoo.com
        thank you and please do not forget that this is for a great depression progect

                                                                          sincerly 
                                                                            hayden davis

[edit] PWA

I know that the PWA was declared unconstitutional in 1935 but i don't know when, was this set up as a similar Administration (they seem very similar!) with a different name to bypass Supreme Court ruling? Murdochious 09:21, 26 May 2006 (UTC)


[edit] Outdoor Ampitheaters

Hi, I'm trying to help a friend with a college project and I was wondering if anyone had a list of outdoor ampitheaters built by the WPA program. If so can someone either post it or send me a link on my talk page. Thanks for the help! --Lekogm 22:41, 9 September 2006 (UTC)

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