North Carolina

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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.

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• SOURCE: TIME
  7/1/2020
  

  The 1898 Wilmington Massacre Is an Essential Lesson in How State Violence Has Targeted Black Americans

  by David Zucchino

  The coup was the natural outgrowth of North Carolina’s – and America’s – long history of relying on white police to perpetuate white supremacy amid fears of Black uprisings.

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  6/26/2020
  

  Racist Violence in Wilmington’s Past Echoes in Police Officer Recordings Today

  by Crystal R. Sanders

  Wilmington, North Carolina police officers who spoke eagerly about the chance to kill black protesters evoke the history of a violent white supremacist coup against the city's biracial government during Reconstruction.

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• SOURCE: Charlotte Observer
  6/16/2020
  

  NC Lawmaker Blasts Black Lives Matter, Calls Protesters ‘Thugs’ And ‘Vermin’

  Republican Rep. Larry Pittman of Cabarrus County had earlier compared Abraham Lincoln to Adolf Hitler and urging public hangings for doctors performing abortions. 

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• SOURCE: Daily Tar Heel
  5/10/2020
  

  Commission on History, Race and a Way Forward Hears from UVA Leaders, Looks Ahead

  A commission at the University of North Carolina looked to the University of Virginia for guidance on reckoning with the institution's historical involvement with slavery and the Confederacy.  

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• SOURCE: Raleigh News & Observer
  5/3/2020
  

  UNC Historian Says NC Reopened Too Soon During 1918 Pandemic. Don’t Let That History Repeat.

  UNC history professor James Leloudis has studied how the global 1918 influenza pandemic tore through North Carolina.

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• SOURCE: News Observers
  2/5/20
  

  Born a slave, John Hunter lived to be 112. Then NC historian Ernest Dollar found his family.

  With luck and the internet, City of Raleigh Museum Director Ernest Dollar rescued him from wills buried in the state archive, articles printed in newspapers that no longer exist and a single line from the 1870 census.

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• SOURCE: NY Times
  11/20/19
  

  Confederate Statue in North Carolina Comes Down After 112 Years

  The statue’s removal came after months of “high emotions, division and even violence” in the small town of Pittsboro, a county official said.

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• SOURCE: NY Times
  4/8/19
  

  2 Arrested in Vandalism of Slave Memorial at University of North Carolina

  The memorial is dedicated to slaves and African-American workers at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

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• SOURCE: News Observer
  4/2/19
  

  ‘Never again.’ NC lawmakers consider requiring that the Holocaust be taught in schools.

  “The survivors are leaving us and along with their departures, we need to make sure that we live up to the mantra of ‘Never again,’” said Richard Schwartz, vice chairman of the N.C. Council on the Holocaust.

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  2/20/19
  

  Trump keeps warning of a coup. But the only one in American history was a bloody, racist uprising.

  Alfred Moore Waddell became the mayor of Wilmington, N.C., in November 1898 after leading the only successful coup on U.S. soil. 

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• SOURCE: The Atlantic
  2-21-18
  

  How the Activists Who Tore Down Durham's Confederate Statue Got Away With It

  The district attorney in Durham, North Carolina, dismissed all remaining charges in the August case. What does that mean for the future of statues around the country?

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• SOURCE: The News & Observer
  1-1-18
  

  White supremacists took over a city – now NC is doing more to remember the deadly attack

  The North Carolina government is officially recognizing what historians call the only successful coup d’etat in American history, when white supremacists overthrew the Reconstruction-era government in Wilmington in 1898.

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• SOURCE: Press Release – Business History Conference
  12-22-16
  

  Business History Conference cancels 2018 Charlotte NC annual meeting because of law that targets gay and transgender people

  The Business History Conference is the largest professional organization of business historians in the United States.

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• SOURCE: NYT
  12-19-16
  

  UNC Charlotte's Karen Cox asks: What’s the Matter With North Carolina?

  by Karen L. Cox

  "My state was once a bastion of Southern progressivism. Now it’s a battleground in the war of urban versus rural voters.”

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• 4-4-16
  

  North Carolina's Brutal Tradition of Sexual and Gender Discrimination

  by Marc Stein

  The state rejects lavender and purple state politics and turns a bright shade of red.

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• SOURCE: The Nation
  2-8-14
  

  North Carolina’s Moral Monday Movement Kicks Off 2014 With a Massive Rally in Raleigh

  by Ari Berman

  Tens of thousands of activists marched from Shaw to the North Carolina State Capitol, where they held an exuberant rally protesting the right-wing policies of the North Carolina government.

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• SOURCE: WUNC Radio
  12-16-13
  

  Professors: NC Conservative Think Tank Trying To 'Bully' Chapel Hill Instructor

  History prof. Nancy MacLean picketed in support of embattled law prof. Gene R. Nichol.