The 981 Project Podcast
Trivia Time: How Did Pittsburgh Turn Flood Relief into a Blueprint for Feeding America?
Nov 21, 202519 minS0
<p>Read Part One of Flood to Food Banks here.</p><p>By the spring of 1937, the Ohio River had retreated to its banks, but the questions it left behind were harder to contain. Across the valley, local officials and federal administrators began asking what might happen if the same machinery that fed the stranded could be used to feed the poor.</p><p>That question found its first real test in Pittsburgh, a city still defined by its mills and smoke. In the months after the flood, the Red Cross and the Works Progress Administration (WPA) turned their emergency...
