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- Reading primary sources: Slave narratives
- This interactive guide to reading a slave narrative steps through layers of questions, guiding the reader through the process of historical inquiry. This edition is one in a series of guides on reading historical primary sources.
- Format: interview (multiple pages)
- The Great Depression: Impact over time
- In this lesson students listen to oral history excerpts from Stan Hyatt from Madison County and evaluate how the Great Depression affected one North Carolina family over time.
- Format: lesson plan (multiple pages)
- Tobacco bag stringing: Secondary activity two
- In this lesson, students will read and evaluate primary source letters from the Great Depression about the effects of the Fair Labor Standards Act on North Carolina's tobacco bag stringers.
- Format: lesson plan (multiple pages)
- Tobacco bag stringing: Life and labor in the Depression
- Images and text from a report in the North Carolina Collection at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill documenting tobacco bag stringing work in North Carolina and Virginia in 1939.
- Format: series (multiple pages)
- The effects of the Great Depression in North Carolina
- This lesson is designed to give the students a better understanding of the personal effects of the Great Depression on the people of North Carolina. It also uses the student's creativity to help others understand these effects.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 8 Social Studies and Theater Arts Education)
- By Yvonne Carroll.
- Tobacco bag stringing: Elementary activity two
- This activity for grades 3–6 will teach students how examining photographs can help them to better understand the past. This activity can be used as an introduction to looking at primary source photographs.
- Format: lesson plan (multiple pages)
- Tobacco bag stringing
- This article introduces the concept of tobacco bag stringing and discusses its importance as a source of income for women in North Carolina and Virginia during the Great Depression. Adapted for elementary students.
- Format: article
- Adapted by Pauline S. Johnson.
- Race in her lifetime
- In this lesson, students will use oral histories to trace the life of Rebecca Clark, an African American who was born in rural Orange County just before the Depression and witnessed the changes in civil rights over the years.
- Format: lesson plan (multiple pages)
- Analyzing children's letters to Mrs. Roosevelt
- Students will analyze letters that children wrote to Eleanor Roosevelt during the Great Depression.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 11–12 Social Studies)
- By Angie Panel Holthausen.
- Letter of April 1, 1939
- In Tobacco bag stringing: Life and labor in the Depression, page 1.4
- Box 132, R. #1, Leaksville, N.C., April 1, 1939. Mr. Sherlock Bronson, Box 644, Richmond, Va. Dear Sir: I am kindly writing asking you please not to take the stringing of bags away from Mrs. Jones, our Agent for our community. For two years I have stringing...
- Bonus marchers and police battle in Washington, DC
- Original caption read, "'Bonus Marchers' and police battle in Washington, DC. The marchers came to Washington, DC, to demand their veterans 'bonus' payment early from Congress. After several months of camping near the Anacostia River and after several confrontations...
- Format: image/photograph
- Primary source letters lesson plan
- In Tobacco bag stringing: Secondary activity two, page 1
- This is one of a series of activities that will help educators use the Tobacco Bag Stringing project materials in their classrooms. Throughout the series students will learn about tobacco stringing, study primary source...
- Format: lesson plan
- By Pauline S. Johnson.
- Mrs. Cornelia Neal
- In Tobacco bag stringing: Life and labor in the Depression, page 2.11
- NEAL, MRS. CORNELIA, (colored), age 66, husband 70; two children and four grandchildren living with her. INCOME: They raise some of their food and a little tobacco. HOME CONDITIONS: The house has eight rooms and there are 62 acres of land. they own 2 mules,...
- Tobacco bag stringing: Elementary activity one
- This activity for grades 3–6 will help students understand what tobacco bag stringing was and why it was important to communities in North Carolina and Virginia. Students will read and analyze an adapted introductory article about tobacco bag stringing.
- Format: lesson plan (grade 3–5 Social Studies)
- By Pauline S. Johnson.
- Mrs. Leacey Royal
- In Tobacco bag stringing: Life and labor in the Depression, page 2.4
- MRS. LEACEY ROYAL, aged 27, married and has 4 children. Husband is 29. They reside in Reddies River, N.C. INCOME: Husband works on P.W.A. sixteen days a month and gets $24. They have no other income. EXPENSES: They use everything they make for food. Taxes...
- Mrs. B. F. Stayley
- In Tobacco bag stringing: Life and labor in the Depression, page 2.5
- STAYLEY, MRS. B.F., married and has 14 children but all of them are away from home. Her age is 65; her husband's age is 69. Reside at Reddis [sic] River, N.C. INCOME: Husband makes all his money by farming and by lending money. They have one son who is a school...
- Letter of March 31, 1939
- In Tobacco bag stringing: Life and labor in the Depression, page 1.3
- Taylorsville, N.C., March 31, 1939. Mr. Sherlock Bronson Richmond, Virginia Dear Mr. Bronson: I am deeply grateful to you and to all others who have made it possible for us to carry on this work, The Stringing of Tobacco Bags, in our county. It is our greatest...
- Mrs. Eugenia Allen
- In Tobacco bag stringing: Life and labor in the Depression, page 2.10
- ALLEN, MRS. EUGENIA, (colored); married and has three children and four grandchildren living with her; aged 51; husband aged 59. Reside at Reidsville, N.C. INCOME: They raise corn and tobacco to sell, and all the food they need. Taxes are about $35.00 a year...
- Proposed amendment to the Fair Labor Standards Act
- In Tobacco bag stringing: Life and labor in the Depression, page 1.7
- It is declared to be the policy of this Act not to displace the use of cotton or cotton materials and the administrator shall by regulations or by order exempt any work where the application of the provisions of Section 6 may result in the use of other materials...
- Brevard Station Museum
- This museum provides a collection of interesting stories, facts, recollections, pictures and tidbits relating to the history of Stanley, Gaston County, North Carolina.
- Format: article/field trip opportunity
