Record #:

16214

Author(s):

Abrams, Douglas Carl

Abstract:

The Works Progress Administration (WPA), a New Deal agency, employed 125,000 of the state's men and women. These people of all races completed 3,984 jobs across the state between 1935 and 1940. A variety of projects were completed from construction of new facilities and records made of rural folk artists.

Source:

Tar Heel Junior Historian (NoCar F 251 T3x), Vol. 49 Issue 2, Spring 2010, p24-26, il

Subject(s):

Depressions--1929

Record #:

35961

Author(s):

Stone, Laurell; Robinson, Caryn

Abstract:

Vats that kept horses and cattle clean and tick free were first provided during the Great Depression. Stories that attested to the importance of the vats came from Buxton natives attesting to vats in towns like Waves, Avon, and Rodanthe. Buxton. Included were descriptions of the vats and pictures of vats in Avon.

Source:

Sea Chest (NoCar F 262 D2 S42), Vol. 2 Issue 3, Spring/Summer 1975, p53-57

Subject(s):

Horses; Cattle; Depressions--1929; Rodanthe--Social life and customs; Outer Banks; Outer Banks--Economic conditions

Record #:

16212

Author(s):

Cole, Olen, Jr.

Abstract:

President Franklin Delano Roosevelt developed the Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) as part of his New Deal plan to aid young men during the Great Depression. CCC camps were not predetermined to be segregated but poor race relations in the south made it necessary separate African American and white workers. In North Carolina between 1933 and 1942, eleven African American CCC camps functioned across the state and performed tasks building roads, clearing forests, and planting vegetation to lessen soil erosion.

Source:

Tar Heel Junior Historian (NoCar F 251 T3x), Vol. 49 Issue 2, Spring 2010, p12-15, il

Subject(s):

Depressions--1929