The Works Projects Administration (WPA) was established at a cost of $4.8 billion (more than $72 billion in 2014 dollars) to provide work opportunities for millions during the Great Depression. – 1935
The WPA was established, 400 black women walk off the tobacco stemmers line and Grapes of Wrath wins Pulitzer.CLICK TO TWEET
400 black women working as tobacco stemmers walked off the job in a spontaneous revolt against poor working conditions and a $3 weekly wage at the Vaughan Company in Richmond, Virginia. – 1937
John Steinbeck‘s The Grapes of Wrath won the Pulitzer Prize for the most distinguished novel of 1939. He ultimately won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1962. – 1940
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