Public Patronage and Black Culture: The Negro and the New Deal Arts Projects

FAIN: FA-11172-75

Jane De Hart Mathews
University of North Carolina, Greensboro (Greensboro, NC 27412-5068)

To interview blacks involved in New Deal cultural projects. The P.I. will spend the first six months studying art in Washington to gain necessary expertise. The interviews will relate a significant chapter in New Deal and Afro-American history as it relates black culture through a decade of political conflict and economic scarcity.