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Work Projects Administration
URI:
https://gptkb.org/entity/Work_Projects_Administration
GPTKB entity
Statements (91)
Predicate
Object
gptkbp:instanceOf
gptkb:government_agency
gptkbp:alsoKnownAs
gptkb:WPA
gptkbp:country
gptkb:United_States
gptkbp:director
gptkb:Harry_Hopkins
gptkbp:dissolved
1943
gptkbp:employs
over 8 million people
gptkbp:established
1935
gptkbp:fundedBy
gptkb:New_Deal
gptkbp:headquarters
gptkb:Washington,_D.C.
https://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#label
Work Projects Administration
gptkbp:notableEmployee
gptkb:Aaron_Copland
gptkb:Arthur_Miller
gptkb:Duke_Ellington
gptkb:Eudora_Welty
gptkb:James_Agee
gptkb:John_Cheever
gptkb:John_Dos_Passos
gptkb:John_Steinbeck
gptkb:Louis_Armstrong
gptkb:Nelson_Rockefeller
gptkb:Ralph_Ellison
gptkb:Richard_Wright
gptkb:Ruth_Benedict
gptkb:Saul_Bellow
gptkb:Sidney_Lumet
gptkb:Studs_Terkel
gptkb:William_Carlos_Williams
gptkb:Woody_Guthrie
gptkb:Zora_Neale_Hurston
gptkb:Ben_Shahn
gptkb:Gordon_Parks
gptkb:Hyman_Bloom
gptkb:Lester_Young
gptkb:Orson_Welles
gptkb:Philip_Guston
gptkb:Alan_Lomax
gptkb:Augusta_Savage
gptkb:Count_Basie
gptkb:David_Smith
gptkb:Dorothea_Lange
gptkb:Elia_Kazan
gptkb:Isamu_Noguchi
gptkb:Jackson_Pollock
gptkb:Jacob_Lawrence
gptkb:Lead_Belly
gptkb:Louise_Nevelson
gptkb:Mark_Rothko
gptkb:Pete_Seeger
gptkb:Romare_Bearden
gptkb:Willem_de_Kooning
gptkb:Claude_McKay
gptkb:Ad_Reinhardt
gptkb:Arshile_Gorky
gptkb:Berenice_Abbott
gptkb:Charles_Alston
gptkb:Charles_White
gptkb:Conrad_Aiken
gptkb:Joseph_Losey
gptkb:Kenneth_Rexroth
gptkb:Lee_Krasner
gptkb:Margaret_Walker
gptkb:May_Swenson
gptkb:Milton_Avery
gptkb:Nelson_Algren
gptkb:Norman_Lewis
gptkb:Saul_Levitt
gptkb:Stuart_Davis
gptkb:Theodore_Dreiser
gptkb:Vernon_Louis_Parrington
gptkb:William_Gropper
Benny Goodman
Fletcher Henderson
gptkbp:notableProject
gptkb:Federal_Art_Project
gptkb:Federal_Music_Project
gptkb:Federal_Theatre_Project
gptkb:Federal_Writers'_Project
gptkb:Historic_American_Buildings_Survey
gptkb:WPA_murals
WPA airports
WPA libraries
WPA parks
WPA post offices
WPA roads and bridges
WPA schools
gptkbp:parentOrganization
gptkb:United_States_federal_government
gptkbp:predecessor
gptkb:Federal_Emergency_Relief_Administration
gptkbp:purpose
employment relief
public works
gptkbp:successor
gptkb:War_Manpower_Commission
gptkbp:bfsParent
gptkb:Civilian_Conservation_Corps
gptkbp:bfsLayer
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