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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)
a U.S. government program during the Great Depression (1935–1943) that hired millions of unemployed people to work on roads, buildings, parks, and other public projects

The WPA was the largest of the New Deal relief programs and affected almost every community in the United States. It offered paid work, not handouts, to people who were out of a job—such as building schools and post offices, improving roads, planting trees, and helping with rural rehabilitation projects.
The initials WPA first stood for Works Progress Administration. Later, the name was slightly changed to Work Projects Administration, but people continued to call it the WPA.
(2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)
Less commonly, WPA can be someone's initials.