Twentieth Century

Table of Contents

Twentieth Century Overview

Two World Wars

1920s

1920s: A Decade of Change

1920s Segregation

Golden Age of Sports

Roaring Twenties

Women in the 1920s

See also: Farm and factory struggles in the 1920s, Transportation in the 1920s

Great Depression

Great Depression and the New Deal

Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC)

Works Progress Administration (WPA)

See also: Textile Strike of 1934

World War II

Tar Heels in World War II

American Indians in World War II

British Atlantic Coast Naval Actions

Military Construction at Home

Military Women

POWs in North Carolina

Propaganda

U-Boats Off the Outer Banks

Women Airforce Service Pilots (WASP)

Civil Rights

African American Civil Rights in North Carolina

1958 - Lumbee Face the Klan

Double Voting

Greensboro Four

School Desegregation

Sit-Ins

Wilmington Ten

See also: "Great Migration" and North Carolina