PWA (Public Works Administration)

• What did the PWA stand for?

  The Public Works Administration
• When was the PWA founded?

  1933
• What was the aim of the PWA?

  To offer jobs through public works
• Who led the PWA?

  Harold Ickes headed it and had $3.3 billion federal funding
• What was Ickes the former president of?

  The Chicago branch of the NAACP
• What did the PWA employ people in?

  Employed hundreds of thousands in constructing roads, schools, hospitals and dams
• What did the PWA spend lots of money?

  It spend over $65 million on the construction and improvement of black schools, homes and hospitals
• What did Ickes ensure?

  Black PWA workers got equal pay
• What did the Housing Division ensure?

  That construction jobs for black workers took up 30% of PWA constructed housing
• How many workers did the PWA have at any one time?

  Roughly 2 million workers