Propaganda and Control: The Suppression of Anti-War Dissent in North Carolina during World War I

This thesis focuses on the suppression of anti-war dissent in North Carolina during the First World War, primarily centered on the North Carolina Council of Defense. It outlines the different methods they used to suppress dissent and influence public opinion to support the war. It also includes an analysis of how the state government targeted dissent from African Americans and German Americans, arguing that the Council's primarily goal was to maintain the state's rigid social hierarchy.