American Decades
One-Third of a Nation
Play script
By: Arthur Arent
Date: 1938
Source: Arent, Arthur, ed. "One-Third of a Nation." In Federal Theatre Plays. New York: Random House, 1938, 92–103.
About the Author: Arthur Arent (1904–1972) wrote plays for radio, television, and the Federal Theatre Project's Living Newspapers. His plays with Living Newspapers, in addition to One-Third of a Nation, include Ethiopia, Injunction Granted, and Power. His broader writing career included assignments for Warner Brothers and the U.S. Office of War Information. Arent was also a staff writer for CBS later in his career.
Introduction
In response to the deep economic crisis of the early 1930s, the Roosevelt administration initiated a variety of relief programs. The Works Progress Administration (WPA), one of the signature programs of the New Deal, was created by the $4.8 billion...
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1930's The Arts Primary Sources
- "The Production Code of the Motion Picture Producers and Distributors of America, Inc.—1930–1934"
- All Quiet on the Western Front
- Early Sunday Morning
- Poetry of Langston Hughes
- "Art: U.S. Scene"
- Composition
- It Can't Happen Here
- "Mouse & Man"
- Songs of Woody Guthrie
- "The Killer-Diller: The Life and Four-Four Time of Benny Goodman"
- "Notes on a Cowboy Ballet"
- One-Third of a Nation
- The Grapes of Wrath
- "Lydia, the Tattooed Lady"
- Arena: The History of the Federal Theatre
- Marian Anderson
- Copyright Page
- Acknowledgments
