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 1.10)
Illustration from a 1915 magazine article shows a woman whose car has a flat tire. Caption read, “If the gallant rescuer isn’t at hand, she must wait till he appears.”