North Carolina During the Great Depression: A Documentary Portrait of a DecadeMcFarland, Incorporated, Publishers, 30 янв. 2003 г. - Всего страниц: 263 Through interviews with survivors of the Depression, the use of photographs taken by Federally supported photographers (many reproduced here) and research into the history of the period, the work provides an accurate and even uplifting portrait of the people of the mountains, piedmont and Coastal areas of North Carolina in the 1930s. The chapters include examinations of the industries and natural resources of North Carolina during the Depression, as well as information on the education, health, population, labor, governorships, housing and entertainment of the time. The effects of the New Deal Programs and other important historic events are discussed. The work includes 200 photographs to complement interviews with North Carolina natives about their experiences, as well as appendices, a bibliography, and an index covering important federal photographers in North Carolina during the Great Depression. |
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... owners often converted their cars and trucks to locomo- tion with the help of a mule or a horse . To create these " hacks , " the owners themselves often became " shade tree mechanics . " They jacked up the cars and removed both the en ...
... owners often converted their cars and trucks to locomo- tion with the help of a mule or a horse . To create these " hacks , " the owners themselves often became " shade tree mechanics . " They jacked up the cars and removed both the en ...
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... owners set the in- terest rates , and the employment of the entire family . In some areas the mill village housing ... owners make the decision no longer to spon- sor the mill village . Minimum wage legisla- tion forced some plant owners ...
... owners set the in- terest rates , and the employment of the entire family . In some areas the mill village housing ... owners make the decision no longer to spon- sor the mill village . Minimum wage legisla- tion forced some plant owners ...
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... owners and textile workers widened . Mill owners often maintained the reduced wages for the workers . A male loom fixer , for ex- ample , who had made $ 32.50 a week in 1920 made only $ 21.41 in 1922 ( Tindall , pp . 334- 339 ) ...
... owners and textile workers widened . Mill owners often maintained the reduced wages for the workers . A male loom fixer , for ex- ample , who had made $ 32.50 a week in 1920 made only $ 21.41 in 1922 ( Tindall , pp . 334- 339 ) ...
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African Americans agricultural ARCHIVES AND HISTORY Arthur Rothstein Asheville banks became began Burns Carolina Quest Carolinians Cherokee church corn cotton COURTESY NORTH CAROLINA crops decade Delano Depression DIVISION OF ARCHIVES Dorothea Lange Ellenboro Farm Security Administration federal government federal photographs Forest City Franklin Franklin Delano Roosevelt FSA-OWI COLLECTION Gastonia Grove Park Grove Park Inn Hoey Home Demonstration Clubs increased industry land Lefler LIBRARY OF CONGRESS lives Marion Post Wolcott mill villages National Emergency Council North Car NORTH CAROLINA DIVISION olina owners Parramore pellagra percent Photograph by Marion PHOTOGRAPHS DIVISION plants potatoes President Roosevelt PRINTS AND PHOTOGRAPHS problems programs radio Resettlement Administration Roy Stryker rural Rutherford County sharecropper social South Southern teacher tenant farmers textile workers Tindall tion tobacco tographs Tugwell union United University of North Vachon wages Walker Walker Evans Wecter women