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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... Cotton dropped in price also . From 1920 to 1925 the price for cotton per pound was 22.5 cents ; by the period 1925 to 1928 the price had dropped to 17 cents per pound ( Pendleton ) . By the year 1930 , cotton prices averaged 10 cents a ...
... cotton were needed . Whereas the state of North Carolina received $ 62.4 million for its cotton crop in 1929 , it received only $ 19.5 million for its 1932 crop . Many farmers received less for the crops than they had spent to produce ...
... cotton , to- bacco , and corn crops , Rutherford County re- ported one - third of its cotton crops destroyed ( Griffin , The History of Old Tryon and Ruther- ford Counties , p . 526 ; McElvaine , Down and Out , p . 27 ) . Support of the ...
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