After Roosevelt was elected, he began to institute his “New Deal,” a series of economic programs intended to offer relief to the unemployed and recovery of the national economy. Though African ...

As the Federal Emergency Relief Act, a prototype of the New Deal work-relief programs, began to put a few dollars into the pockets of hungry workers, the question arose whether to include artists ...

In 1932 Franklin Delano Roosevelt was elected overwhelmingly on a campaign promising a New Deal for the American ... Roosevelt’s major work relief program, would employ more than 8.5 million ...