The Federal Theatre Project was a project created during the Great Depression to fund live artistic work (like theatre), in the United States. It was established to help out-of-work artists find work and income, as well as entertain poor families during the depression.
The FTP was controversial for often criticizing the U.S. Supreme Court, the most notable example being in Triple-A Plowed Under, which attacked the Supreme Court for killing an aid agency for farmers.
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