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Lesson I:
The Fulton Bag and Cotton Mill Strike,1914-1915: A Structured Academic Controversy
  • For Teachers (download entire Lesson Plan in pdf)
  • Student-Centered Inquiries
    • Student-centered inquiry I (download pdf)
      Propaganda as a Photographer's Tool
      Consider three questions as you try to understand the images you are viewing, in order to determining the propaganda value of a photo
    • Student-centered inquiry II (download pdf)
      A Comparison of Jacob A. Riis's, Lewis Hine’s, and O Delight Smith's Photography
      Compare photographs taken by O. Delight Smith during the Fulton Bag and Cotton Mill Strike to the child labor photographs taken by Jacob Riis and Lewis Hines
    • Student-centered inquiry III (download pdf)
      Developing Titles and Captions for Images from O. Delight Smith's Scrapbook
      Review sample titles and captions for O. Delight Smith’s photographs, and then try to create your own
  • Documents & Images
 
Lesson II:
The Uprising of '34: The General Textile Strike of 1934
 
Lesson III:
The Bell Bomber Plant in Marietta, Georgia, During World War II - A Historical Inquiry
 
 
Stories:
A six part narrative overview on the story of labor and the labor movement in the American South
  • The Colonial and Antebellum Eras
  • "New South" Era (post-Civil War)
  • The Southern Textile Industry
  • Great Depression, New Deal and World War II
  • The Post-War Era
  • Labor in the Modern Era
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