Contract & Outline

Mission Statement

The goal of this project is to teach the history and acknowledge the legacy of the American Enka Corporation’s mill village in Asheville, North Carolina. The target audience is the general public, especially former employees and their families.

I. Introduction

  1. Short overview of Asheville history in the early 20th century.
  2. Overview of The Great Depression because Enka opened right in the middle of the Depression.
  3. Overview of the American Enka Corporation and how it got its start in the United States.
  4. Explanation of why Enka is important to WNC and what mill village life meant to those working for the company.

II. Community Layout

  1. Overall layout of the Enka Village.
  2. Types of houses provided for workers and officers.
  3. Architectural drawings of officers’ homes.
  4. Maps of the overall village.

III. Community Life

  1. Talk about what families did in their free time.
  2. Enka Lake Club
  3. Vacations, sports, recreation
  4. Gardening

IV. World War II

  1. Enka employees’ participation in WWII.
  2. How Enka helped with the war.

V. Labor Relations

  1. Talk about working at Enka.
  2. Include some primary sources such as newspaper articles about strikes and unionization as it pertains to the American Enka Corporation.

VI. Wesley Lee v. American Enka Corporation 

  1. Summarize the court case and why it is relevant.
  2. Include scans of the documentation.

VII. Oral History Interview

  1. Transcript and audio from an oral history interview conducted with Pat Beaver, former resident of Enka Village. Interview topics included life in the village and growing up there.

VIII. Conclusion

Conclusion: The American Enka Corporation was a unique mill village where workers were given much more than employment

IX. Bibliography

List of all primary and secondary sources used in the senior capstone project.

X. Historiography

Sources include Jacqueline Dowd Hall’s Disorderly Women, Nan Chase’s Asheville: A History, Jacqueline Dowd Hall’s Like a Family: The Making of A Southern Cotton Mill World, Travis Byrd’s Unraveled, Kathryn Anne Frank’s Enka North Carolina: New Planning in an Early Twentieth Century Southern Mill Town, and more.

Tools I plan to use:

  • I am using the most current theme, 2021. 
  • Plugins I will use:
    • FooGallery so people can open up the scans and photographs included and zoom into them. 
  • I will be including a timeline using Timeline JS.
  • I plan to use Apple’s Photos application to edit any pictures I take myself and then WordPress editing to edit any other photos or files.

Schedule of milestones (when critical pieces are drafted/ready to present)

  • First draft is due October 6, 2021.
  • Second draft is due October 27, 2021.
  • Third and final draft is due November 19, 2021.
  • Presenting at the Undergraduate Research Symposium on November 23, 2021.

Content Deadlines

  • September 18: Layout of the menu, topics and subtopics that will translate into pages/sub-pages.
  • September 26: Selection and uploading of images that you will use.
  • September 28: List of questions for oral history interview complete.
  • September 30: Completion of storyline.
  • October 1st: Oral History Interview
  • October 3: Narrative layout complete
  • October 4: Uploaded interview footage & transcript.
  • October 5: Image & other media layout complete
  • October 15: Revision of grammar, writing, spelling, etc complete.
  • October 20: Revision of layout complete.
  • October 25: Revision of narrative, images, other media complete.
  • November 5: Final revision of grammar, writing, spelling, etc complete.
  • November 10: Final revision of layout.
  • November 13: Final revision of narrative, images, other media.
  • November 14: Any final changes complete.
  • November 19: SUBMITTED.
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