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How a Great Depression Government Program Kept Musicians at Work

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Jazz musician Dizzy Gillespie with Republican Mayor George Christopher. (San Francisco History Center, San Francisco Public Library)

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How a Great Depression Government Program Kept Musicians Working

In 1933, Congress passed a series of reforms aimed at pulling America out of the worst financial crisis in our nation's history. The New Deal gave rise to the Works Progress Administration, which established the Federal Music Project to help keep musicians at work.
Reporter: Austin Cross, KPCC

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