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- Early twentieth century · 1900–1944
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Hilda C. Allen becomes superintendent of the Efland Home after a poor state report
Following a critical June 1935 state inspection and complaints about the home's management, the board's executive committee met in Durham in July and soon hired Hilda C. Allen as superintendent, keeping Lula Henderson as matron.
People: Hilda C. Allen · Lula B. Henderson
Subject: North Carolina Industrial Home for Colored Girls (Efland Home)
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Matron Lula B. Henderson and farm manager Lewis Walker are hired at the Efland Home
After J. A. Lassiter's husband was let go in March 1935, the home hired Lula B. Henderson as matron and Lewis Walker to run the farm in April. Henderson's husband, a retired minister living in Chapel Hill, taught the girls under the Emergency Relief Administration's adult education program.
People: Lula B. Henderson
Subject: North Carolina Industrial Home for Colored Girls (Efland Home)
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A runaway tells a Greensboro official that the new Efland Home matron whipped her with a board
During a wave of runaways in May 1935, a month after Lula B. Henderson was hired as matron, Corinne Cannady of Greensboro returned a twelve-year-old girl who said the matron had whipped her with a board and that girls were locked in small rooms on bread and water for days. Cannady asked the state welfare commissioner, Mrs. W. T. Bost, for an investigation at once.
Subject: North Carolina Industrial Home for Colored Girls (Efland Home)
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Hilda Allen resigns as superintendent, leaving Lula Henderson in charge of the Efland Home
Saying she could not handle all her duties, Hilda C. Allen resigned in early May 1937 after making real gains in the home's conditions, and matron Lula Henderson took charge.
People: Hilda C. Allen · Lula B. Henderson
Subject: North Carolina Industrial Home for Colored Girls (Efland Home)
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A state welfare agent records the Efland Home matron's account of beating a girl
In a report of June 16, 1937, state welfare agent William R. Johnson wrote that matron Lula Henderson, by then the only adult in charge, told him and two other visitors that she had choked and beaten a girl who snatched her whip from her. He also found a girl locked in a room as punishment.
Subject: North Carolina Industrial Home for Colored Girls (Efland Home)
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State inspectors find the Efland Home failing and tell its board to fund it or close it
State welfare agents W. C. Ezell and T. L. Grier visited on July 2, 1937, and found the heat, plumbing and building in poor repair, about twenty acres in crops, the only cow dead and the mules unfit. Grier judged the home was not rehabilitating its girls and told the federation's board to raise enough money to fix it or shut it down.
People: Lula B. Henderson
Subject: North Carolina Industrial Home for Colored Girls (Efland Home)
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Lula Henderson reports jobs found for former Efland Home girls
In January 1938 Lula Henderson reported that former residents of the Efland Home had been placed in work in Mebane, Greensboro, Washington, D.C., and Seneca, South Carolina. Churches and patrons gave clothing, food and supplies, but not enough to keep up the home.
Subject: North Carolina Industrial Home for Colored Girls (Efland Home)
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