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1. Early twentieth century · 1900–1944

2. May 1935
   Efland 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.

3. January 1936
   Efland Hilda Allen asks the state for help with medical care at the Efland Home

   When superintendent Hilda Allen raised the need for medical care for the girls at the Efland Home, the state Division of Institutions and Corrections replied on January 13, 1936, only that she should get in touch with the county health officer.

4. February 26, 1936
   Efland A state field agent tells Hilda Allen the WPA cannot help the Efland Home

   Hilda Allen asked whether the Works Progress Administration could do manual work at the Efland Home. A field agent of the state Division of Institutions and Corrections answered that the WPA could not approve a project on land deeded to a private body, the North Carolina Federation of Negro Women's Clubs, and that he knew of no other source of aid.

5. June 1937
   Efland 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.

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