Looking Back at the WPA Federal Writers’ Project – 85 years Later

Zora Neale Hurston: Author, Folklorist, Filmmaker, WPA Florida Writers Project

“If the Writers’ Project had only ever kept young, broke writers like Zora Neale Hurston, Kenneth Rexroth and John Cheever off the dole, it would have been enough.”

David Kipen
May 6, 2020

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85 years ago, FDR saved American writers. Could it ever happen again?
https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/books/story/2020-05-06/post-coronavirus-federal-writers-project

21st Century Federal Writers’ Project – H.R.3054
https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/house-bill/3054/text
Read the text of the bill, see the Sponsors and follow the progress of the bill.

Contact your Representative
Find your Representative, let them know that you support H.R. 3054, the 21st Century Federal Writers’ Project

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