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    Soul of a People - Film Screening

    Presented by San Jose Public Library System at Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Library

    December 1, 2009

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    Soul of a People tells the story of the Federal Writers' Project, one of the cultural initiatives of Franklin Roosevelt's New Deal. Through this controversial program, thousands of unemployed writers were paid to capture a remarkable portrait in words of something less tangible: the country's soul. Soul of a People is a documentary produced by Spark Media, an award-winning Washington, D.C.-based production company specializing in issues of...

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    Soul of a People tells the story of the Federal Writers' Project, one of the cultural initiatives of Franklin Roosevelt's New Deal. Through this controversial program, thousands of unemployed writers were paid to capture a remarkable portrait in words of something less tangible: the country's soul. Soul of a People is a documentary produced by Spark Media, an award-winning Washington, D.C.-based production company specializing in issues of social change.


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    Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Library

    150 E. San Fernando Street
    San Jose, CA 95112

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    Tickets:
    Free

    Times:
    7pm-8:30pm

    Phone: 408-808-2042

    Parking:

    Street parking and garage parking are available at the Fourth Street Garage (across from the library on E. San Fernando Street).


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    • Event Name: Soul of a People - Film Screening
      "How Talented People Survive Hard Times"
      Comment posted by: David Taylor from Washington, DC, Nov 29, 2009

      While at the library, check the book of the same title, Soul of a People: The WPA Writers' Project Uncovers Depression America (Wiley, 2009) for the chapter about California, including Kenneth... Expand

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