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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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"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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A unionization parade for Saxon Mills, Spartanburg, in 1935. Courtesy of the South Caroliniana Library.
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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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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 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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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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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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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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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.