Henry Alsberg
During the Great Depression, Henry Alsberg, a journalist with a passion for social justice, directed the Federal Writers'' Project, a New Deal program of the Works Progress Administration. Under his guidance, thousands of unemployed writers were hired. Despite attacks from the House Committee on Un-American Activities, the Project produced more than 1,000 publications from 1935 to 1939, includi...
During the Great Depression, Henry Alsberg, a journalist with a passion for social justice, directed the Federal Writers'' Project, a New Deal program of the Works Progress Administration. Under his guidance, thousands of unemployed writers were hired. Despite attacks from the House Committee on Un-American Activities, the Project produced more than 1,000 publications from 1935 to 1939, includi...
