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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... percent of the tenants were white , but that percent increased in the 1930s . The percent rose to 58.5 percent in 1930 , to 65.5 percent in 1935 , and to 66 percent in 1940 ( Lefler , 1963 , pp . 613-614 ) . Throughout the decade of the ...
... percent ) in the state were either very young or very old at the beginning of the Great Depression . This distribution is signifi- cant because more than 40 percent were not of what is usually considered a child - bearing age . These ...
... percent of the girls between the ages of fourteen and nineteen in the nation were working ; 40 percent of the boys within this age group held jobs ( Wecter , p . 181 ) . Both the state and the federal government began work to improve ...
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