Works Progress Administration Protests

A group in New York City called the League for the Physically Handicapped forms to protest discrimination by the Works Progress Administration (WPA). The league's 300 people-most living with polio and cerebral palsy-had all been turned down for WPA jobs after the city's Home Relief Bureau stamped their applications "PH' for "physically handicapped.' Members of the league stage sit-ins, first at the bureau and later WPA headquarters. These and other efforts eventually generate a few thousand jobs nationwide and draw attention to the issue of employment for people with disabilities.