Remembering the New Deal during Black History Month: The WPA's Negro Advisory Committee

Above: The WPA's Negro Advisory Committee, Washington, DC, 1937. The WPA had a policy of non-discrimination, and this committee, presumably, advised officials on such issues. The February 1939 edition of the African American journal, Opportunity, noted: "It is to the eternal credit of the administrative officers of the WPA that discrimination on various projects because of race has been kept to a minimum and that in almost every community Negroes have been given a chance to participate in the work program." Photo courtesy of the National Archives.