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1920–1930
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  • North Carolina in the early 20th century: Primary sources and readings explore North Carolina in the first decades of the twentieth century (1900–1929). Topics include changes in technology and transportation, Progressive Era reforms, World War I, women's suffrage, Jim Crow and African American life, the cultural changes of the 1920s, labor and labor unrest, and the Gastonia stirke of 1929. (Page 6.9)

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Photo of Gid Tanner holding a fiddle

Size: 499×411

Color has been added to this black-and-white photograph of Gid Tanner holding a fiddle. Tanner achieved fame as an old-time fiddler with his band, the Skillet Lickers, in the 1920s and 1930s.