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The buildup of troops at Fort Jackson, even before the attack on Pearl Harbor, was the beginning of the many changes that World War II brought to Columbia, and indeed to all of South Carolina. The...
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Senate investigations of the profits that some American corporations had made selling war materials to Britain and France prior to World War I made many Americans suspicious of entanglements with...
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President Franklin D. Roosevelt occasionally stopped in Columbia on his train trips between Washington, D.C., and his home in Warm Springs, Georgia. But in January 1940, as the war expanded in Europe...
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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...