The reminiscences of Florence Kerr

The outer archives are busy

by Florence Kerr, Charles Wesley Roberts, Columbia University. Oral History Research Office

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WPA administrator. Topics include: Chicago Midwest Regional Director, Women's and Professional Projects, Works Progress Administration, 1935-38; Washington Assistant Commissioner, Works Progress Administration, 1939; Assistant Commissioner, Federal Works Administration, 1942-45; unskilled women's projects; Arts Project; Harry Hopkins; relationship with Franklin D. Roosevelt, 1939; impressions of many New Deal figures.

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