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“I never made no more than nine dollars a week, and you can’t do for a family on such money. I’m the mother of nine. Four died with the whooping cough. I was working nights. . . "
-Ella May Wiggins
The Communist National Textile Workers organized many unions in the 570 mills of Gastonia. Ella May Wiggins and many other women lead the fight for the Loray Mill Strike to ask for better working conditions, a minimum wage, and equal pay for equal work for women and children.
"Good health, since it produces high spirits, vitality, cheerfulness, and leadership, will help to make you popular.
Pine Needles- Greensboro Yearbook
Student Council of the Women's Association fought for a women's dormitory on campus.
Becker, Glover, Wheeler.The New Woman: Debating Women’s Roles in the 1920s. Discovering the American Past. (Wadsworth Cengage Learning, 2012)
Dorothy Brown. Setting A Course American Women in the 1920s (Boston, M.A. Twayne Publishers, 1987)
Healthy, Happy, Womanhood: A Pamphlet for Girls and Young Women. Pamphlet found on Wed. 1920. US Public Health Service Treasury Department
Home Economics Club. The Tecoan. Photograph in Yearbook. 1924. East Carolina Teachers College.
League of Women Voters of North Carolina Goldsboro, N.C. Women Register and Vote. Advertisement found on Web. 1920. UNC-Chapel Hill. http://docsouth.unc.edu/nc/league1/menu.html
League of Women Voters of North Carolina Goldsboro, N.C. Women Register and Vote. Advertisement found on Web. 1920. UNC-Chapel Hill. http://docsouth.unc.edu/nc/league2/image.html
Mabel Thomas. The Tecoan. Photograph in Yearbook. 1923. East Carolina Teachers College.
Meredith College, A Standard College For Young Women. Hill’s Raleigh City Directory, (1927. Hill Directory Co., Inc.)
Pine Needles Greensboro, N.C. Senior Class, North Carolina College for Women 1921. Photograph found on Web. 1921. UNC-Chapel Hill http://docsouth.unc.edu/nc/pineneedles/ill168.html
UNC Department of Community Studies. National Communication Association. Image found on Web. 2015. NCA