1. Short title This Act may be cited as the 21st Century Federal Writers’ Project Act . 2. Findings Congress finds the following: (1) In 1935, during the Great Depression, President Franklin Delano Roosevelt established The Federal Writers’ Project of the New Deal Era. This program was organized to employ writers, editors, historians, researchers, journalists, librarians, broadcasters, photographers, and others to document American society. (2) The Federal Writers Project employed up to 10,000 people between its founding in 1935 during the Great Depression and the publication of its first guides in 1943. (3) The original Federal Writers’ Project had many successes, such as— (A) the American Guide Series, which covered 48 States, 40 cities, 18 regions and territories, and countless counties, with John Steinbeck calling the Series, the most comprehensive account of the United States ever got together, and nothing since has even approached it. It was compiled during the depression by the best writers in America ; (B) creating opportunities for writers who went on to become some of the United States greatest authors, including Ralph Ellison, Richard Wright, Saul Bellow, and Zora Neale Hurston; (C) developing the Slave Narrative Project, the largest project to document the experience of formerly enslaved people, as part of the oral history and photography project telling the story of 10,000 people of the United States