Federal Emergency Relief Administration
The Federal Emergency Relief Administration (FERA) was the name given by the Roosevelt Administration to the Emergency Relief Administration (ERA). President Franklin Delano Roosevelt had created it in 1933. FERA was created from the Federal Emergency Relief Act. In 1935, it was replaced by the Works Progress Administration (WPA).
| Federal Emergency Relief Administration (FERA) | |
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| Camp for unemployed women in Pennsylvania (1934) | |
| overview | |
| Formed | May 1933 |
| Preceding agency | Emergency Relief Administration (ERA) |
| Dissolved | December 1935 |
| Superseding agency | Works Progress Administration (WPA) |
| Employees | Provided work for over 20 million people |
| Child agency | Civil Works Administration (CWA) |
From May 1933 until December 1935, FERA gave states and cities $3.1 billion (the equivalent of $55.4 billion in 2017).[1] FERA provided work for over 20 million people and developed facilities on public lands across the country.
Federal Emergency Relief Administration Media
Ellen S. Woodward directed FERA's women's programs and later became an administrator for the Works Progress Administration and Social Security Administration
References
- ↑ Trowbridge, D.J. (2016). A History of the United States: 1865 to present. Asheville, NC: Soomo Learning. http://www.webtexts.com/courses/19333-schaller/traditional_book/chapters/1696149-the-new-deal-and-origins-of-world-war-ii-19321939/pages/1428876-the-first-hundred-days?q=FERA
Other websites
- FERA Program description
- University of Washington Libraries Digital Collections – Federal Emergency Relief Administration Photographs Essay on the program and images documenting the Federal Emergency Relief Administration program in King County, Washington, 1933-35.
- ERA and FERA in Utah
- Complete List of New Deal Communities, of the Federal Emergency Relief Administration, the Resettlement Administration, and the Division of Subsistence Homesteads, from the National New Deal Preservation Association