Employment for African Americans in the Great Depression provided by Works Progress Administration (WPA) Projects in New York, United States. Unskilled workers gather at construction site. Workers work at improvement projects. They pick rocks and put on truck. Crane in the background. Worker on picker, it picks mud and put it on dumper. Workers work on road and drive leveler, dumper on site. Workers on WPA housing demolishing project break down old houses and construct comfort sanitary apartments. Skilled workers work on swimming pools and bath houses at Colonial Park.
Employment for African Americans in the Great Depression provided by Works Progress Administration (WPA) Projects in New York, United States. African American students in an adult school write in a note book. Teacher writes on blackboard. Young men and women learn Spanish from a volunteer from Nation Youth Administration. Boy learns work of a lab assistant and work on a machine. Men and women learn clerical work of filing, checking and new work as abstraction. A woman learns typing.
Employment for African American citizens provided by Works Progress Administration (WPA) Projects in New York, United States, during the Great Depression. Rehabilitation program for African American women. Women in household or housekeeper training school learn cooking, making salad and baking. Woman sprinkle salt on salad and pull out a plate from oven. Women learn to make bed. They spread sheet over bed and cover pillows. Women in health education program learn first aid for children. Nurse demonstrates to fold child in a blanket with a dummy. Woman gives food. Women in a sewing room work on sewing machine. Man and woman put clothes in boxes.
Employment for African Americans provided by Works Progress Administration (WPA) Projects in New York, United States, during the Great Depression. African American men and women of an art song group learn classical music. They sing chorus. William Lawrence sits on piano and sings along.
Employment for African Americans in the Great Depression provided by Works Progress Administration (WPA) Projects in New York, United States. Actors of Negro People's Theatre troupe perform in Shakespeare's play 'Macbeth,' (known as the "Voodoo Macbeth") directed by Orson Welles, at a theater in New York under the Federal Theater Project. Actor delivers dialog in the play, set in 19th century Haiti instead of Scotland. Body of Lady Macbeth (Edna Thomas) on floor. Fight scene in play with Maurice Ellis as Macbeth, slain by Macduff. Three witches and Macbeth and Macduff on floor. Witches hold cut head. Final scene of play finishes. Viewers clap as the curtains drop. Curtain raises and actors bow.
Unionized Hollywood worker is interviewed after his home is bombed during jurisdictional dispute between the Internaational Alliance of theatrical and Stage Employees (IATSE) and the Conference of Studio Unions (CSU).
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