North Carolina Century: Tar Heels Who Made a Difference,

North Carolina Century: Tar Heels Who Made a Difference, 1900-2000
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This collection profiles the people who helped shape life in North Carolina in the twentieth century. It includes 160 biographical sketches of Tar Heels who made a difference, highlighting their accomplishments in the areas of agriculture, the arts, business, education, law, media, politics, popular culture, public service, religion, social movements, and sports.

Some of those profiled are familiar because of their prominence in public life--Thomas Wolfe, John Hope Franklin, Doris Betts, Jesse Helms, Doc Watson, and Richard Petty, for example. Others are less well known today but made contributions that deserve to be remembered: James E. Shepard, founder of what is now North Carolina Central University; Ellen Winston, the first U.S. Commissioner of Welfare; and former state Supreme Court Justice Henry Frye, the first African American elected to the General Assembly in the twentieth century. All had a hand in shaping North Carolina between 1900 and 2000, a period during which the state emerged from the aftermath of the Civil War and became a model for development and progressive movements across the South.
Country USA
Brand University of North Carolina Press
Manufacturer Levine Museum of the New South
Binding Hardcover
ItemPartNumber 160 photographs, index
UnitCount 1
EANs 9780807827574
ReleaseDate 0000-00-00

Country	USA
Brand	University of North Carolina Press
Manufacturer	Levine Museum of the New South
Binding	Hardcover
ItemPartNumber	160 photographs, index
UnitCount	1
EANs	9780807827574
ReleaseDate	0000-00-00

North Carolina Century: Tar Heels Who Made a Difference, 1900-2000