Life and labor in the Depression

Last winter we released our version of the North Carolina Collection’s Tobacco Bag Stringing: Life and Labor in the Depression, which presents images and text from a report documenting the importance of tobacco bag stringing work in North Carolina during the Great Depression. To help teachers make use of these fascinating (not to mention interdisciplinary) materials, we’ve just published a series of elementary and secondary activities to accompany this project. Students will learn what tobacco bag stringing is, study primary source materials, and practice critical thinking and analysis skills.