Editing Columbus, Mississippi (section)

===WPA mural===
The mural ''Out of the Soil'' was completed in 1939 for the Columbus post office by [[Works Progress Administration|WPA]] [[Section of Painting and Sculpture]] artist [[Beulah Bettersworth]].<ref>{{cite news|last1=Burnett|first1=Garthia Elena|title=Post office mural raises questions of racial sensitivity|url=http://www.cdispatch.com/news/article.asp?aid=9619&TRID=1&TID=|access-date=14 May 2016|newspaper=The Dispatch|date=January 15, 2011|location=Columbus, Mississippi|archive-date=7 May 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160507222759/http://www.cdispatch.com/news/article.asp?aid=9619&TRID=1&TID=|url-status=live}}</ref> Murals were produced from 1934 to 1943 in the United States through "the Section" of the [[United States Department of the Treasury|U.S. Treasury Department]].{{citation needed|date=October 2021}}