James City: A Black Community in North Carolina, 1863-1900, Paperback - Joe A. Mobley

Reducere. Examines the history of James City, a black community located near New Bern. Established in 1863 as a camp for destitute former slaves, James City ...

Reducere. Recounts events leading to the establishment of twenty-nine lifesaving stations along North Carolina's treacherous coastline and the role of their ...

Reducere. Since its establishment in 1792 as the permanent and unalterable seat of government of the state of North Carolina, " Raleigh has seen many changes...

Reducere. While Washington, D.C., is still often referred to as "Chocolate City, " it has undergone significant demographic, political, and economic change i...

Reducere. DescriptionIn the 1910s, both W. E. B. Du Bois and Booker T. Washington praised the black community in Durham, North Carolina, for its exceptional ...

Reducere. DescriptionDavid Ruggles (1810-1849) was one of the most heroic--and has been one of the most often overlooked--figures of the early abolitionist m...

Reducere. DescriptionMonumental in scope and vividly detailed, Chocolate City tells the tumultuous, four-century story of race and democracy in our nation's ...

Reducere. It's Halloween night, and creatures and critters from near and far are starting to gather outside the front door. And now here comes a whole army o...

Reducere. An examination of the origin and legacies of the captive exchange economy within and among the Native Americans and Euro-American communities throu...

Reducere. DescriptionWhile African Americans comprise just five percent of the total population of Minnesota today, the state boasts many successful, creativ...

Reducere. Some know Oklahoma's Black towns as historic communities that thrived during the Jim Crow era--this is only part of the story. In this book, Karla ...

Reducere. In the mid-1960s, African American artists and intellectuals formed the Black Arts movement in tandem with the Black Power movement, with creative ...

In this first historically comprehensive book on Lost Cove, North Carolina, the author paints a portrait of an isolated yet thriving settlement tha...

Reducere. What was it like to grow up black and female in the segregated South? To answer this question, LaKisha Simmons blends social history and cultural s...

Reducere. Queer history is a living practice. Talk to any group of LGBTQ people today, and they will not agree on what story should be told. Many people desi...

DescriptionBlack gospel music grew from obscure nineteenth-century beginnings to become the leading style of sacred music in black American communi...

Publisher: Hub City PressAuthor(s): Brent MartinNumber of pages: 160Collection: Cold Mountain Fund SeriesPublication date: 2022Dimensions: 195 x 24...

Reducere. Like many black school principals, Ulysses Byas, who served the Gainesville, Georgia, school system in the 1950s and 1960s, was reverently addresse...

Reducere. In this nuanced and groundbreaking history, Donna Murch argues that the Black Panther Party (BPP) started with a study group. Drawing on oral histo...

Reducere. DescriptionIn 2012, Chicago's school year began with the city's first teachers' strike in a quarter century and ended with the largest mass closure...

Reducere. The Hatfield-McCoy feud, the entertaining subject of comic strips, popular songs, movies, and television, has long been a part of American folklore...

Reducere. In 2015, the beautiful jazz funeral in New Orleans for composer Allen Toussaint coincided with a debate over removing four Confederate monuments. M...

Reducere. America is at war with itself over the right to vote, or, more precisely, over the question of who gets to exercise that right and under what circu...

Reducere. How is the state produced? In what ways did enslaved African Americans shape modern governing practices? Ryan A. Quintana provocatively answers the...

Reducere. Lawrence Reddick (1910-1995) was among the most notable African American intellectuals of his generation. The second curator of the Schomburg Libra...

Reducere. Draws upon 17th- and 18th-century sources to trace the history of African Americans, slave and free, in North Carolina through 1800. The documents ...

Reducere. Joe Miller brings us the first-ever stand-alone guidebook to backpacking in North Carolina, a state long known as a terrific backpacking destinatio...

Reducere. In 2007, while researching mountain culture in upstate South Carolina, anthropologist John M. Coggeshall stumbled upon the small community of Liber...

Reducere. Featuring over 600 wildflowers, flowering shrubs, and vines, this user-friendly field guide is the first to focus on the rare, fragile lands and sp...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Barbara RansbyOne of the most important African American leaders of the twentieth century and perhaps the most influential ...

Reducere. 2020 Museum of African American History Stone Book Award2020 Lillian Smith Book AwardFinalist, 2020 Pauli Murray Book PrizeFor generations, histori...

Now in English for the first time, Keila Grinberg's compelling study of the nineteenth-century jurist Antonio Pereira Reboucas (1798-1880) traces t...

Reducere. Dispelling much of what he terms the 'mythology' of the Scotch-Irish, James Leyburn provides an absorbing account of their heritage. He discusses t...

Publisher: Waterford Press LtdAuthor(s): James KavanaghCollection: Waterford Explorer GuidePublication date: 2022Dimensions: 103 x 209 x 5Cover typ...

Reducere. During his tenure as Chancellor of North Carolina State University, Larry K. Monteith witnessed the state's transformation from a largely agrarian-...

There are over 80, 000 people on probation in North Carolina. This book sets out the law and procedure of how probation officers and the court syst...

DescriptionHope, sacrifice, and restoration: throughout the American Civil War and its aftermath, the Foster family endured all of these in no smal...

Reducere. DescriptionThe first documented discovery of gold in the United States was in 1799 at John Reed's farm in Cabarrus County. This book traces the his...

The place of women's rights in African American public culture has been an enduring question, one that has long engaged activists, commentators, an...

Reducere. The twin acts of singing and fighting for freedom have been inseparable in African American history. May We Forever Stand tells an essential part o...

Reducere. With an executive order from President Franklin Roosevelt in 1941, the United States Marine Corps--the last all-white branch of the U.S. military--...

Reducere. DescriptionWhen traditionally white public schools in the South became sites of massive resistance in the wake of the Supreme Court's Brown v. Boar...