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 5.2) A café, whose windows label
it as the Farmers Cafe — Quick Lunch, has separate entrances
labeled “White” and “Colored.” LEARN NC, a program of the
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Education,
finds the most innovative and successful practices in K–12
education and makes them available to the teachers and students
of North Carolina — and the world.