Between 1935 and 1939, the United States government paid out-of-work artists to write, act, and stage theatre as part of the Federal Theatre Project (FTP), a Ne

In a riveting account based on new documents and interviews with more than 400 sources on both sides of the aisle, award-winning reporter Michael Grunwald revea

This 2003 book provides a detailed examination of the operations of the US Federal Theatre Project in the decade of the 1930s.

Contributions by Cynthia Baron, Elizabeth Binggeli, Kimberly Nichele Brown, Priscilla Layne, Eric Pierson, Charlene Regester, Ellen C. Scott, Tanya L. Shields,

This book illustrates African American writers' cultural production and political engagement despite the economic precarity of the 1930s.