African-Americans in North Carolina
Crafting Lives by
Abstract: "From the colonial period onward, black artisans in southern cities--thousands of free and enslaved carpenters, coopers, dressmakers, blacksmiths, saddlers, shoemakers, bricklayers, shipwrights, cabinetmakers, tailors, and others--played vital roles in their communities. Yet only a very few black craftspeople have gained popular and scholarly attention. Catherine W. Bishir remedies this oversight by offering an in-depth portrayal of urban African American artisans in the small but important port city of New Bern. In so doing, she highlights the community's often unrecognized importance in the history of nineteenth-century black life. Drawing upon myriad sources, Bishir brings to life men and women who employed their trade skills, sense of purpose, and community relationships to work for liberty and self-sufficiency, to establish and protect their families, and to assume leadership in churches and associations and in New Bern's dynamic political life during and after the Civil War. Focusing on their words and actions, Crafting Lives provides a new understanding of urban southern black artisans' unique place in the larger picture of American artisan identity"-- Provided by publisher.
"From the colonial period onward, black artisans in southern cities--thousands of free and enslaved carpenters, coopers, dressmakers, blacksmiths, saddlers, shoemakers, bricklayers, shipwrights, cabinetmakers, tailors, and others--played vital roles in their communities. Yet only a very few black craftspeople have gained popular and scholarly attention. Catherine W. Bishir remedies this oversight by offering an in-depth portrayal of urban African American artisans in the small but important port city of New Bern. In so doing, she highlights the community's often unrecognized importance in the history of nineteenth-century black life"-- Provided by publisher.
Call Number: 305.89 B622c 2013ISBN: 9781469608754
Greater Than Equal by
Contents: The price of equality : black loyalty, self-help, and the "right kind of citizenship" -- Lessons in citizenship : confronting the limits of curricular equalization in the Jim Crow South -- The high cost of it all : James E. Shepard and higher education equalization -- A "most spectacular" victory? : teacher salary equalization and the dilemma of local leadership -- How can I learn when I'm cold? : a new generation's fight for school facilities equalization -- From equalization to integration : struggles for schools and citizenship in the age of Brown.
Call Number: 371.82 T532g 2013ISBN: 9780807839300Publication Date: 2013-08-01
Julius Chambers by
Contents: Child of the Jim Crow South -- Julius Chambers emerges -- Julius Chambers in New York -- Launching the North Carolina campaign, 1964-1965 -- Changing Charlotte -- Fighting the uneven battle: the YMCA cases and Wooten v. Moore -- Creating LDF South -- Taking charge in North Carolina -- School desegregation and the Swann case -- Opening up the workplace: the Title VII campaign -- Taking on the struggle: the Chambers firm in the criminal courts -- Securing the foundation: the Chambers firm in the early 1970s -- Epilogue: an enduring legacy.
Call Number: 340.09 R813j 2016ISBN: 9781469628547
The Tar Heel State by
Abstract: "In the past few decades North Carolina has witnessed remarkable growth in economic development and political importance, and it now ranks as the ninth most populous state in the Union. Milton Ready's The Tar Heel State: A New History of North Carolina, Revised Edition constitutes the most comprehensive, up-to-date, single-volume chronicle of the state's storied past, culminating in a thorough review of recent events that have transformed North Carolina into a southern megastate. An engaging storyteller, Ready integrates tales of famous pioneers, statesmen, soldiers, farmers, captains of industry, activists, and community leaders with more marginalized voices, including those of Native Americans, African Americans, and women to provide a full range of colorful personalities and perspectives from its scenic coast through tobacco road and the Piedmont to the glorious mountain region. This revised edition includes nearly 100 illustrations and a frank analysis of North Carolina's political, racial, and environmental challenges in the decade ahead"-- Provided by publisher.
Call Number: NC 975.6 R 287t 2020 pbk.ISBN: 9781643360973
Henry Frye by
Abstract: "Henry E. Frye came of age just as the South was beginning a change. Throughout their lives, Frye and wife, Shirley, were in the vanguard of the advances that shaped the lives of African Americans. This book traces their careers and explores the growing participation of African Americans in the civic, political and social life of North Carolina"--Provided by publisher.
Call Number: 347.75 C873h 2013 pbk.ISBN: 9780786475759
Upbuilding Black Durham by
In the 1910s, both W. E. B. Du Bois and Booker T. Washington praised the black community in Durham, North Carolina, for its exceptional race progress. Migration, urbanization, and industrialization had turned black Durham from a post-Civil War liberation community into the "capital of the black middle class." African Americans owned and operated mills, factories, churches, schools, and an array of retail services, shops, community organizations, and race institutions. Using interviews, narratives, and family stories, Leslie Brown animates the history of this remarkable city from emancipation to the civil rights era, as freed people and their descendants struggled among themselves and with whites to give meaning to black freedom.
Brown paints Durham in the Jim Crow era as a place of dynamic change where despite common aspirations, gender and class conflicts emerged. Placing African American women at the center of the story, Brown describes how black Durham's multiple constituencies experienced a range of social conditions. Shifting the historical perspective away from seeing solidarity as essential to effective struggle or viewing dissent as a measure of weakness, Brown demonstrates that friction among African Americans generated rather than depleted energy, sparking many activist initiatives on behalf of the black community. - Amazon
Call Number: 305.89 B878u 2008ISBN: 9780807831380
