Franklin D. Roosevelt founded the New Deal and Works Progress Administration during the Great Depression to federally assist artists in raising national ethics. The Federal Theater has been established and dance has gotten for the first time federal backing, which has generated a dance awareness that is incomparable to subsequent initiatives in this nation. Just a few years later, Congressional leaders declared communist and quickly terminated their backing.
Why? Was the dance project a communistic invention or did it develop into a powerful vehicle of communication for the party in power and had to be stopped? The answers to these questions can be found in the Chronicles of Congress.Franklin D. Roosevelt founded the New Deal and Works Progress Administration during the Great Depression to federally assist artists in raising national ethics. The Federal Theater has been established and dance has gotten for the first time federal backing, which has generated a dance awareness that is incomparable to subsequent initiatives in this nation. Just a few years later, Congressional leaders declared communist and quickly terminated their backing.
Why? Was the dance project a communistic invention or did it develop into a powerful vehicle of communication for the party in power and had to be stopped? The answers to these questions can be found in the Chronicles of Congress.