North Carolina

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  4/6/2021
  

  ‘This is Environmental Racism’: How a Protest in a North Carolina Farming Town Sparked a National Movement

  After decades of struggle with little access to resources or power, activists in the environmental justice movement have placed racial equity at the center of the President's environmental agenda.   

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• SOURCE: National Geographic
  3/22/2021
  

  This U.S. Governor was Impeached—For Cracking Down on the KKK

  Governor William Woods Holden responded to a brazen campaign of KKK terrorism with a declaration of martial law in two North Carolina counties. The backlash led to his impeachment. 

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• SOURCE: Made By History at the Washington Post
  2/22/2021
  

  The Campaign to Free the Wilmington 10 Holds the Key to Successful Activism Today

  by Kenneth Janken

  A campaign to free 10 racial justice protesters in 1972 worked because it connected the cause to the problems with police, poverty, and racism experienced by a broad cross section of the community, and "recognize[d] racism not as separate from history but as part of historical processes and political economy."

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• SOURCE: Mother Jones
  2/4/2021
  

  How to Teach History in a Community Still Reckoning With Its Past

  "For the African American community, it was still this large, looming scar, and the white community literally didn’t even know what had happened. It had just been erased. There was this disconnect in the community."

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• SOURCE: The Conversation
  2/8/2021
  

  Why a Shootout Between Black Panthers and Law Enforcement 50 Years Ago Matters Today

  by Paul Ringel

  A 50 year-old police attack on members of the High Point chapter of the Black Panther Party has been largely forgotten, but it shows the historical development of a pattern of law enforcement that targets Black militants and allows white supremacist radicals free rein. 

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• SOURCE: New York Daily News
  2/2/2021
  

  North Carolina Stops Issuing Confederate Flag License Plates

  "North Carolina will no longer issue new license plates bearing the Confederate flag and will stop renewing plates that already have the symbol, the state’s department of motor vehicles said."

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• SOURCE: WFAE
  2/3/2021
  

  Controversial NC Social Studies Guidelines Strike A Nerve With Public And Officials

  "Members of the state Board of Education say they’ve gotten thousands of emails about proposed new social studies standards just since last week’s special meeting. The debate over how to address racism, oppression and gender identity is clearly striking a nerve."

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• SOURCE: The New Yorker
  2/1/2021
  

  The Plan to Build a Capital for Black Capitalism

  Thomas Healy's book "Soul City" looks at a short-lived experiment to create a capital city for Black capitalism in America, part of a long series of political debates about whether the pursuit of economic power by Black Americans would overcome racism. 

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• SOURCE: Mother Jones
  

  We’ve Had a White Supremacist Coup Before. History Buried It

  LeRae Sikes Umfleet's 2009 book explored the 1898 Wilmington insurrection and showed “how people could get murdered in the streets and no one held accountable for it.”

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• SOURCE: Asheville Citizen-Times
  12/11/2020
  

  What Was the Dixie Highway, Anyway?

  Historian Tammy Ingram discusses the Dixie Highway, about which she wrote the book, as a rare project of early 20th-century highway building and tourism development that was completed. 

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• SOURCE: Made By History at the Washington Post
  12/8/2020
  

  Even if Georgia Turns Blue, North Carolina may not Follow

  by Michael Bitzer and Virginia Summey

  North Carolina's politics have long been characterized by a competition between fairly evenly balanced forces of conservatism and moderation. Democrats who hope to permanently tip the state in their favor are likely to be disappointed. 

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• SOURCE: New York Review of Books
  11/9/2020
  

  An American Pogrom (Review)

  by David W. Blight

  David W. Blight reviews a new book on the 1898 Wilmington massacre and the violent overthrow of multiracial democracy in North Carolina. 

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• SOURCE: Charlotte Observer
  10/26/2020
  

  In Battleground North Carolina, Donald Trump Is Taking Jesse Helms’s Last Stand

  Donald Trump's chances in North Carolina depend on whether he can successfully deploy the politics of white resentment mastered by the state's longtime senator Jesse Helms. 

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• SOURCE: Greensboro News & Record
  10/6/2020
  

  'This is What We Support': Nearly 41 Years Later, City Apologizes for Greensboro Massacre

  The Greensboro Police Department knew through informants that the Ku Klux Klan and American Nazi Party planned to attack a 1979 anti-Klan march of the Communist Workers Party, but neither warned the marchers nor stopped the violence. Five marchers were killed and none of the attackers were convicted of crimes.

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• SOURCE: Racist Roots: Origins of North Carolina's Death Penalty
  10/5/2020
  

  “The Death Penalty Is Another Confederate Monument We Must Tear Down.”

  A collaborative project examines the history of capital punishment in North Carolina, beginning with an introduction by death penalty litigator Henderson Hill. 

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• SOURCE: New York Times
  9/1/2020
  

  Roanoke’s ‘Lost Colony’ Was Never Lost, New Book Says

  Historians Malinda Maynor Lowery and Lauren McMillan discuss the evidence behind a new book's claim that the "lost" inhabitants of the Roanoke colony were absorbed by the Croatoan indigenous people of the area. 

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• SOURCE: CNN
  8/20/2020
  

  UNC Fiasco Reveals Truth About Reopening Colleges

  by David M. Perry

  University administrations need to be more transparent and accountable for how they are handling reopening under COVID. 

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• SOURCE: The Bitter Southerner
  8/4/2020
  

  Somebody Died, Babe: A Musical Coverup of Racism, Violence & Greed

  by Kevin Kehrberg & Jeffrey A. Keith

  The song "Swannanoa Tunnel" has been changed through generations of recordings by white musicians, concealing its origins as a song sung by Black convict-lease laborers who were forced to work in deadly conditions, often as punishment for minor crimes (or no crimes at all). 

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• SOURCE: History.com
  7/28/2020
  

  How the Greensboro Four Sit-In Sparked a Movement

  Scholars including Jeanne Theoharis and Will Guzmán describe the roots and impact of the 1960 Woolworth sit-ins in Greensboro, North Carolina. 

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• SOURCE: ABC11 (NC)
  7/23/2020
  

  North Carolina Committed Genocide Against Black People from 1958-1968, Duke Researchers Say

  "When you use the term genocide, it really brings home the fact that this isn't just over reproductive behavior, it's really about eliminating a group of people," said a co-author of the study.