Mary Hilliard Hinton was the leader of North Carolina's anti-suffrage movement. The movement was successful in the state, but the Nineteenth Amendment to the Constitution was eventually ratified, thereby undermining this success.
Nellie Rowe was librarian of the Greensboro Public Library for almost thirty years. Rowe was active in the state and national library associations and served as president of the North Carolina Library Association for two years.
Valeria Lynch Lee, a native of Hollister in Halifax County, is the moderator for the University of North Carolina Center for Public Television's Black Issues Forum, a member of the University of NC Board of Governors, and an advocate of philanthropy.
Economic opportunity for women in North Carolina has historically been dismal. This status has been changing for some time, however, and women have more opportunities now than ever before.
North Carolinians engaged in heated debate over the proposed Equal Rights Amendment (ERA) that would have given women the same rights as men. North Carolina legislators voted against ratification of the amendment six times from 1973 to1982.
In 1972 the grave of a Native American woman was unearthed in Stokes County by anthropologists from UNC-Chapel Hill. Later, using forensic reconstruction, the Office of State Archaeology and the NC Museum of History re-created the woman's appearance.
Between 1900 and 1960 the automobile significantly changed recreation in North Carolina by making travel cheaper and easier, recreation sites more accessible, and support businesses, such as gift shops and restaurants, more widespread.