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Ninety Six was a small frontier town near Greenwood, South Carolina—an essential part of the geography of British strongholds designed to seal off Charleston and the low country from French, Spanish...
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The WPA undertook large, as well as small, construction projects, and the character of some of their projects began to change in 1939 and 1940, as the nation turned its attention to the war that had...
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The Farm Security Administration, a part of the Department of Agriculture, carried out a number of projects to help rural Americans improve their lives. These projects ranged from helping to combat...
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School children in Greenville eat hot lunches prepared by WPA workers. Courtesy of the National Archives and Records Administration.
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A WPA nurse's aid and a county health doctor give an inoculation against typhoid to a small African-American patient in Charleston. Photo by Wilson, WPA. Courtesy of the South Caroliniana Library.
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An important component of the work of the WPA in South Carolina was providing health care for children throughout the state. Here, children in a classroom have their teeth checked. 1930s. Courtesy of...
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Writers, as well as laborers, were out of work during the Depression, and the WPA tried to put both men and women into jobs suitable to their skills. One of the lasting contributions of the WPA in...
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In Columbia, WPA workers cut wood for distribution to the needy by the Salvation Army. The project flourished under the WPA and its city of Columbia and Salvation Army sponsorship from 1935 to 1942...
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One of the most popular of all the New Deal efforts to provide relief during the depression was the creation of the Civilian Conservation Corps. The CCC was designed to take young men who did not have...
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The program of the New Deal that touched the most individuals was probably the Works Progress Administration, better known as the WPA. Created in 1935, its purpose was to put people of all ages and...
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One of the most controversial aspects of the First New Deal was the Agricultural Adjustment Act, or the AAA. This legislation was intended to help farmers by reducing the quantity of farm production...
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A unionization parade for Saxon Mills, Spartanburg, in 1935. Courtesy of the South Caroliniana Library.
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"One family's mass migration in search of better fortune: Mr. and Mrs. J.A. Aitken and their 14 children, passing through Richmond, Virginia on a hike to Springfield, Ohio from Springfield, South...
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The Great Depression, beginning with the stock market crash in 1929, brought hardship to South Carolinians. Much of the South was poor long before the Depression because, as an agricultural region, it...
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Billy Sunday meeting in Charleston, October 25, 1923, "Charleston Evening Post." Many people think of the 1920s as a period devoted to pleasure, in which jazz, the dance named The Charleston...
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A special issue of the "Charleston Evening Post," June 28, 1926, welcoming the labor unions to a convention and proclaiming South Carolina supportive of labor. This newspaper is unusual, both for the...
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Many young South Carolinians lost their lives in the First World War. This sheet music celebrates two Sumter natives, Robert O. Purdy and Ervin D. Shaw, after whom Shaw Air Base was named. The verse...
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The First World War ended with the surrender of Germany "at the eleventh hour, on the eleventh day, on the eleventh month." This headline in "The State" newspaper on November 11, 1918, brought news of...
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The Kershaw Mills of Springs Manufacturing sponsored this float in the Third Liberty Loan Parade on April 27, 1918, urging mill workers to participate in the war effort by buying Victory Bonds...
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Many young men recruited into the army were trained at Camp Sevier, near Greenville. Motor Truck Companies 101 and 218 lived in this tent city. Courtesy of the South Caroliniana Library.
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Women recruits at Parris Island during World War I. The combat unit manpower needs of the Marines, as for all of the services, were so great that women were recruited to take over many of the...
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The main road at Camp Jackson, 1917. Courtesy of the Howard G. Woody Postcard Collection.
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African-American recruits served honorably in World War I in segregated units. This unknown young man posed, wearing his uniform, for Columbia photographer Richard S. Roberts, around 1920. Courtesy of...
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Although this photograph of Battery Jasper, located several hundred yards east of Fort Moultrie, was taken in the late 1890s, it shows the construction of the coastal defense system around the fort...
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The outbreak of World War I in Europe in 1914 at first did not seem to involve Americans. President Woodrow Wilson, who had spent part of his boyhood in Columbia, promised to keep the U.S. out of the...
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Kings Mountain is a rocky wooded hill on the border of North and South Carolina. On October 7, 1780, a thousand patriots surrounded and attacked the British troops and Loyalist soldiers. This battle...
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President Taft speaks at the South Carolina State Fair Grounds on November 6, 1909. Courtesy of the South Carolina State Museum.
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Martin Frederick Ansel (1850-1945) is being sworn in as governor in the South Carolina State House. Ansel served as governor from 1907 to 1911. Courtesy of the South Caroliniana Library.
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The advent of a new century made many leaders of the South begin to talk of a New South, where industry and diversity would end the poverty and backwardness that had characterized too much of the...
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The equal suffrage movement of women demanding the right to vote developed slowly in South Carolina. This parade in Aiken on January 26, 1917, claimed to be "The First Suffrage Parade in South...