December 18, 1969

Willous Floyd Sharp died at the age of seventy-three. Sharp was best known for his work as head of the Works Progress Administration (WPA) in Arkansas, traveling the state to assess the hardships brought on by the Great Depression. He published his findings in “Development and Administration of Emergency Programs, Traveling Recovery Road: The Story of Relief, Work-Relief and Rehabilitation in Arkansas, August 30, 1932 to November 15, 1936.”