Background
Hayes, Jack Irby was born on August 13, 1944 in Danville, Virginia, United States. Son of Jack Irby and Minnie Lee (Conner) Hayes.
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JACK IRBY HAYES, JR., revisits the South Carolina of the 1930s to determine the impact of federal programs on the state's economy, politics, culture, and citizenry. He traces the waxing and waning of support for programs such as Works Progress Administration (WPA), Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC), and the Federal Emergency Relief Administration (FERA) and concludes that the modernization of South Carolina would have been delayed without their intervention. Suggesting that the New Deal hastened the end of one-party political domination, Hayes proposes that it also initiated a new era of modernized agriculture and banking practices, rural electrical service, labor restrictions, relief programs, and cultural resurgence. Hayes finds that Franklin Delano Roosevelt's initiatives enjoyed widespread support among South Carolinians. He documents the welcoming of agricultural and erosion controls, welfare relief, child labor laws, minimum wage requirements, public construction, state parks, and massive hydroelectric projects. He also credits the New Deal with sparking an intellectual reawakening and a restoration of faith in capitalism, democracy, and progress. But Hayes demonstrates that by 1936 South Carolinians had begun to withdraw their approval because the New Deal veered leftward, threatened established racial practices, and upset the South's commanding influence in the Democratice Party. He concludes that the inability or unwillingness of New Deal architects to redistribute wealth, control unemployment, and significantly increase consumer purchasing power prevented the return of agricultural and industrial prosperity.
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Hayes, Jack Irby was born on August 13, 1944 in Danville, Virginia, United States. Son of Jack Irby and Minnie Lee (Conner) Hayes.
Bachelor of Science in History, Hampden-Sydney College, 1966; Master of Arts in History, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, 1968; Doctor of Philosophy in History, University of Southern California, 1972; Bachelor of Science in Business, Averett College, 1987.
Director continuing education, University of Southern California, Columbia, 1972-1974; assistant professor of history, Averett College, Danville, 1974-1977; associate professor, Averett College, Danville, 1977-1982; professor, Averett College, Danville, 1982-1990; water closet Daniel professor of history and political science, Averett College, Danville, since 1990; department chairman history, Averett College, Danville, since 1976. Adjunct Professor graduate school Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg, 1977-1979. Archival consultant Dibrell Brothers, Inc., Danville, 1990-1991.
(This work examines the birth and maturation of Averett Co...)
(JACK IRBY HAYES, JR., revisits the South Carolina of the ...)
Judicial ethics advisory committee Commonwealth Virginia, 1999-2007. Board directors Womack Foundation, 1982-1990, Danville Museum Fine Arts and History, 1992-1998, 2004-2006. President Hughes Memorial Home, 1999-2006.
Member Danville Democratic Committee, 1977-1990. Elder, trustee First Presbyterian Church, Danville. Past president Citizens Board, Danville Corps., Salvation Army.
Member Southern History Association, Association for Preservation of Virginia Antiquities (life), Kiwanis (lieutenant governor division 2 capital district 1991-1992, president Danville club 1989, secretary,1998—), Southern Association Colleges and Schools (member re-accreditation committee 1986-1999), German Club Danville, Danville Golf Club.
Married Bernadine Joy Arnn, June 5, 1966. Children: Emily Wilson, Julia Arnn.
