All 3 Uses of

WPA
in
Do You Speak American?

In the 1930s and early 1940s, workers from the Works Progress Administration made a series of recordings and photographs in this part of Texas.†
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Works Progress Administration = largest of the Depression era relief measures that put millions to work

One of the former slaves interviewed by the WPA was born in Liberia, captured there in the 1850s, and brought to Texas as a child.†
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One WPA interviewee was Laura Smalley of Hempstead, Texas, south of Springville, in the same river country, known as Brazos Bottom.†
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Definitions:

(1) (WPA)
largest of the Depression era relief measures employing millions and impacting almost every community; offered work to the unemployed for such tasks as roadwork, building construction, slum clearance, reforestation, and rural rehabilitation (1935-1943)

Initially, WPA stood for Works Progress Administration. The name was later changed to Work Projects Administration.
(2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)
meaning too rare to warrant focus:

Less commonly, WPA can be someone's initials.