25 Years Ago - New Deal and WPA
25 Years Ago - New Deal and WPA
Clip: 363472_1_1
Year Shot: 1935
(Estimated Year)
Audio: Yes
Video: B/W
Tape Master: 1674
Original Film: 033-057-06
HD: N/A
Location: Alabama
Timecode: 00:05:46 - 00:06:09
25 Years Ago - New Deal and WPA MS - The W.P.A. got under way, recruiting the first 15,000 for the New Deal's public works program. African American and Caucasian men. Recruit signs his name. Men work at construction. They have a wheelbarrow and shovels. Great shot of poverty during the Great Depression - CU African American man's feet, his toes wiggling to show off the tattered rags of (what used to be) his shoes.