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	3