Editing Federal Project Number One (section)

{{short description|Projects under the U.S. WPA New Deal program}}
[[File:Indian court, Federal Building, Golden Gate International Exposition, San Francisco, 1939 LCCN98518807.jpg|thumb|WPA Poster]]
{{distinguish|The Fed One}}
'''Federal Project Number One''', also referred to as '''Federal One''' ('''Fed One'''), is the collective name for a group of projects under the [[Works Progress Administration]], a [[New Deal]] program in the [[United States]]. Of the [[United States Dollar|$]]4.88 billion allocated by the [[Emergency Relief Appropriation Act of 1935]],<ref>{{cite web|last=Roosevelt|first=Franklin D.|author-link=Franklin Delano Roosevelt|date=August 26, 1935|title=Letter on Allocation of Work Relief Funds|url=https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/letter-allocation-work-relief-funds|access-date=2015-03-02|website=The American Presidency Project|publisher=Online by Gerhard Peters and John T. Woolley}}</ref> $27 million was approved for the employment of artists, musicians, actors and writers under the WPA's Federal Project Number One.<ref name="Arena">{{cite book |last=Flanagan |first=Hallie  |author-link=Hallie Flanagan |date=1965 |title=Arena: The History of the Federal Theatre |location=New York |publisher=Benjamin Blom, reprint edition [1940] |oclc=855945294}}</ref>{{Rp|44}} In its prime, Federal Project Number One employed up to 40,000 writers, musicians, artists and actors because, as Secretary of Commerce [[Harry Hopkins]] put it, "Hell, they’ve got to eat, too".<ref name=":0">{{Cite journal|last=Mutnick|first=Deborah|date=November 2014|title=Toward a Twenty-First-Century Federal Writers' Project|jstor=24238170|journal=College English|volume=77| issue = 2|pages= 124–145}}</ref> This project had two main principles: 1) that in time of need the artist, no less than the manual worker, is entitled to employment as an artist at the public expense and 2) that the arts, no less than business, agriculture, and labor, are and should be the immediate concern of the ideal commonwealth.<ref>{{Cite journal|last=Edmonds|first=Rosalie|date=Spring 2008|title=Documenting the Depression: Wisconsin's WPA Art|jstor=25482075|journal=The Wisconsin Magazine of History|volume= 91| issue =  3|pages=18–23}}</ref>

The five divisions of Federal One were these:

* [[Federal Art Project]]
* [[Federal Music Project]]
* [[Federal Theatre Project]]
* [[Federal Writers' Project]] 
* [[Historical Records Survey]] (originally part of the Federal Writers' Project)

All projects were supposed to operate without discrimination regarding race, creed, color, religion, or political affiliation.<ref name="Arena"/>{{Rp|44}}

Federal Project Number One ended in 1939 when, under pressure from Congress, the theater project was cancelled and the other projects were required to rely on state funding and local sponsorship.<ref>{{Cite journal|last=Hendrickson Jr.|first=Kenneth|date=Spring 1993|title=The WPA Federal Art Projects in Minnesota, 1935-1943|jstor=20187801|journal=Minnesota History|volume= 53| issue =  5|pages=170–183}}</ref>