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The General Assembly enacts a compulsory school law. Griffith’s controversial silent film The Birth of a Nation (1915). The General Assembly charters Cullowhee Normal and Industrial School (now Western Carolina University) in Cullowhee. The Bijou will operate until 1956, when it will be possibly the oldest continuously operated theater in the country.
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Two years later a building is erected, making it the first permanent movie theater in the state. The Bijou Theater in Wilmington opens in a tent. Southern Power Company (now Duke Power Company) is formed.
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The General Assembly charters Appalachian Training School (now Appalachian State University) in Boone. He advises African Americans to content themselves as an agrarian people, to eschew migration, and to seek the type of education that will promote community building. Washington addresses the North Carolina Industrial Association’s annual fair. North Carolina passes its first child labor laws.īooker T. The North Carolina Historical Commission (now the Division of Archives and History) is established. He stays aloft for 12 seconds on the first trip.
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The North Carolina Good Roads Association is founded to promote a highway commission to maintain roads in the state.ĭecember 17: Orville Wright flies the first power-driven airplane at Kill Devil Hills.
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The state’s first automobile registration takes place in Charlotte. The North Carolina Federation of Women’s Clubs is organized.Ĭharlotte Hawkins Brown opens Palmer Memorial Institute in Sedalia. It will evolve into the North Carolina Museum of History. The Hall of History is founded by Colonel Fred Olds in Raleigh. September: President William McKinley is assassinated in Buffalo, N.Y. Ransom Olds produces 1,500 Oldsmobiles, the first mass-produced automobiles in the United States. Unfortunately, many mills fail to abide by the agreement. The leaders pledge cooperation with state officials and call for legislative restraint in dealing with labor-management issues. More than 100 manufacturers agree to maintain a 66-hour work week and not to employ children under age 12 during the school year (with exceptions for children of widows and the disabled). Textile mill leaders meet in Charlotte to discuss self-regulation.
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Reginald Fessenden conducts successful radio experiments, during which he transmits messages from Roanoke Island to Cape Hatteras and Cape Henry, V.A. November: Democrats regain control of the governorship and the legislature through a virulent white supremacy campaign. The amendment includes a grandfather clause that allows illiterate whites to vote but effectively disfranchises the state’s African American citizens. The North Carolina Literary and Historical Association is founded to foster growth in these fields, as well as to “engender an intelligent, healthy state pride.”įebruary 21: An amendment to the North Carolina Constitution is adopted that institutes a literacy test for voting.
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The average wage for a family of five, with the father and four children ages 14 to 21 working in a prosperous textile mill, is $17 to $21 per week, or no more than $1,000 per year. The state has 217 textile mills and 101 tobacco factories in operation. 1900-1920 1900 North Carolina Census Data