"Political Movements"

1. How does "Resources of America" reflect the political movements of the time?

2. Which characters in the murals can you relate to these movements?

3. What political ideas and movements informed Ben Shahn's work?

4. What are the political and social implications of this mural?

5. What was the political platform of the Democratic Party led by Franklin Delano Roosevelt?

6. How extensive was the Unemployed Councils and its successor the Workers Alliance, and what were the nature of their activities?

7. What was the National Negro Congress and what did it accomplish?

8. What was the American Committee for the Protection of the Foreign Born and what did it accomplish?

9. What was the International Workers Order and what were its functions?

10. What opposition developed against the WPA in general and Ben Shahn's murals, in particular?

11. What other WPA projects were built in the South Bronx?