Line 139:
====North Carolina====
North Carolina, alongtook witha allleadership therole southernin states,modernizing imposedthe strictsouth, legal segregationnotably in theexpansion earlyof 20thpublic century.education Theand poor rural backwardthe state tookuniversity asystem regionaland leadership roleimprovements in modernizingtransportation, thewhich economyearned init society,the basednickname on"The expandedGood rolesRoads forState."<ref>{{Cite publicweb education,|title=Good stateRoads universities,Campaign and{{!}} moreNCpedia roles for|url=https://www.ncpedia.org/good-roads-campaign middle|access-classdate=2024-05-12 women|website=www.ncpedia.org}}</ref> State leaders included Governor [[Charles B. Aycock]], who led both the educational and the white supremacy crusades; diplomat [[Walter Hines Page]]; and educator [[Charles Duncan McIver]]. Women were especially active through the [[WCTU]], inthe churchBaptist activism, promoting prohibitionchurch, overseas missions, and local public schools, and in the cause of prohibition, leading North Carolina to become the first southern state to implement statewide [https://www.ncpedia.org/anchor/statewide-prohibition Theyprohibition]. Progressives worked to limit child labor in the textile mills, and supported public health campaigns to eradicate [[hookworm]] and other debilitating diseases.<ref>{{Cite Theybook promoted|last=Link gender|first=William equalityA. and|title=The womanparadox suffrage,of andSouthern demandedprogressivism, a1880-1930 single|date=1996 standard|publisher=Univ. of sexualNorth moralityCarolina forPress men|isbn=978-0-8078-4589-9 and|edition=Nachdr. women|series=The Fred. InW. theMorrison blackseries community,in [[CharlotteSouthern Hawkinsstudies Brown]],|location=Chapel builtHill}}</ref> While the [[Palmermajority Memorialof Institute]]North Carolininans continued to educatesupport thetraditional blackgender leadership classroles, Brownand workedstate withlegislators [[Bookerdid T.not Washington]]ratify (inthe his[[Nineteenth roleAmendment withto the [[NationalUnited NegroStates BusinessConstitution|Nineteenth LeagueAmendment]]) until 1971, whoProgressive providedreformers ideaslike [[Gertrude Weil]] and accessDr. to[[Elizabeth NorthernDelia philanthropy.<ref>WilliamDixon-Carroll|Elizabeth A.Delia Link,Dixon ‘’NorthCarroll]] Carolina:lobbied Changefor and[[Women's Traditionsuffrage in athe SouthernUnited State’’States|woman (2009) ppsuffrage]]. 285–313.</ref>
Following the [[Wilmington massacre|Wilmington Massacre]], North Carolina imposed strict legal segregation and rewrote its constitution in order to [[Disfranchisement|disfranchise]] Black men through poll taxes and literacy tests. In the Black community, [[Charlotte Hawkins Brown]] built the [[Palmer Memorial Institute]] to provide a liberal arts education to Black children and promote excellence and leadership. Brown worked with [[Booker T. Washington]] (in his role with the [[National Negro Business League]]), who provided ideas and access to Northern philanthropy.<ref>William A. Link, ‘’North Carolina: Change and Tradition in a Southern State’’ (2009) pp. 285–313.</ref><ref>{{Cite book |last=Gilmore |first=Glenda Elizabeth |url=https://www.worldcat.org/title/on1052404500 |title=Gender and Jim Crow: women and the politics of White supremacy in North Carolina, 1896-1920 |date=2019 |publisher=The University of North Carolina Press |isbn=978-1-4696-5188-0 |edition=Second edition |series=Gender & American culture |location=Chapel Hill |oclc=on1052404500}}</ref>
===Midwest===
|
Article Images