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Federal Theatre Project, Negro Theatre, Sign Painting department, headed by Tipp Beavers. Workshop employees producing posters, display letters, and a cardboard ark, for various New York-based Federal Theatre productions, 1936

Federal Theatre Project, Negro Theatre, Sign Painting department, head...

Public domain photograph related to race relations, African Americans, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Crowd outside the Lafayette Theatre, in Harlem, at the opening of "Macbeth" produced by the WPA Federal Theatre Project, 1936.

Crowd outside the Lafayette Theatre, in Harlem, at the opening of "Mac...

The Works Progress Administration (WPA) was a New Deal program established by President Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1935 as a response to the high unemployment during the Great Depression. The program put people t... More