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"Liberty to Slaves": the black response

Tar Heel Junior Historian Article, Online. The actions of African Americans, both free and enslaved, are examined against the backdrop of the Revolutionary War. This article originally appeared in the Fall 1992 Tar Heel Junior Historian Magazine.   details   direct link: View resource now (opens in new window).

"The Great Agitator": Golden A. Frinks

Tar Heel Junior Historian Article, Online. Golden A. Frinks is one of the great unsung heroes of the Civil Rights movement. Those closest to Frinks called him "The Great Agitator" or "Mr. Civil Rights." He became known for nonviolent acts of civil disobedience that wore down racist political practices. This article appeared in the Fall 2004 issue of Tar Heel Junior Historian magazine.   details   direct link: View resource now (opens in new window).

A Forced Migration

Tar Heel Junior Historian Article, Online. The first Africans, brought to America through forced migration, came as indentured servants to Jamestown, Virginia, in 1619. Africans brought to the colonies in later years were bought and sold as slaves. This article appeared in the Spring 2006 issue of Tar Heel Junior Historian magazine.   details   direct link: View resource now (opens in new window).

A Wagon with a Story to Tell

Tar Heel Junior Historian Article, Online. Abigail and Joshua Stanley lived in the Centre Community of southern Guilford County where their home served as a stop on the Underground Railroad. They also owned a wagon with a secret compartment. Legend says that the wagon was used to ferry African Americans to free states during the mid 1800s. This article originally appeared in the Fall 2008 Tar Heel Junior Historian Magazine.   details   direct link: View resource now (opens in new window).

African American Brilliance

Tar Heel Junior Historian Article, Online. Do you ever wonder what you would do without a toilet-tissue holder or turn signals on cars? African American North Carolinians have invented countless inventions that make our lives easier. This article appeared in the Fall 2006 issue of Tar Heel Junior Historian magazine.   details   direct link: View resource now (opens in new window).

African American Civil Rights in North Carolina

Tar Heel Junior Historian Article, Online. Explore how African Americans in North Carolina fought for civil rights from the antebellum period through the mid-1960s. This article appeared in the Fall 2004 issue of Tar Heel Junior Historian magazine.   details   direct link: View resource now (opens in new window).

African American Culture and the World Around You

NIE Article, Online. African American culture continues to influence North Carolina today through food and cooking, arts and crafts, and music and dance traditions. This article appeared in the Raleigh News & Observer, 28 January 2009.   details   direct link: View resource now (opens in new window).

African American Political Pioneers

Tar Heel Junior Historian Article, Online. Thirteen African American men served as delegates to North Carolina’s 1868 Constitutional Convention. This article gives a brief biography of each man and outlines some of the general achievements of the convention. This article originally appeared in the Fall 2008 Tar Heel Junior Historian Magazine.   details   direct link: View resource now (opens in new window).

African and African American Storytelling

Tar Heel Junior Historian Article, Online. Slavery led to changes in the tradition of African American storytelling. Learn how tales that once featured the lion, elephant, and hyena began to star the rabbit, fox, and bear. This article appeared in the Spring 2002 issue of Tar Heel Junior Historian magazine.   details   direct link: View resource now (opens in new window).

America's Music in the 1920s

Tar Heel Junior Historian Article, Online. Before there were CDs and MP3 players, people listened to the radio and phonograph records and heard live music. Explore the music styles that entertained North Carolina audiences in the twenties. This article appeared in the Spring 2004 issue of Tar Heel Junior Historian magazine.   details   direct link: View resource now (opens in new window).

An Interview with Chief Justice Henry Frye

Tar Heel Junior Historian Article, Online. Henry Frye made a significant mark on North Carolina history on September 7, 1999, when he took the oath of office as the first African American chief justice of the North Carolina Supreme Court. This article appeared in the Spring 2000 issue of Tar Heel Junior Historian magazine.   details   direct link: View resource now (opens in new window).

Antebellum North Carolina

Professional Development, Online. What was life like for North Carolinians before the Civil War? Research articles, artifacts, and visual aids will enhance your knowledge of the state's political, social, and economic climate during the antebellum era.   details   direct link: View resource now (opens in new window).

Arrivals in the East: Settlement of the Coastal Plain, 1650 to 1775

Tar Heel Junior Historian Article, Online. Read how the Coastal Plain of North Carolina was settled. Learn who immigrated to North Carolina and what conditions discouraged immigration. This article appeared in the Spring 1995 issue of Tar Heel Junior Historian magazine.   details   direct link: View resource now (opens in new window).

Assigned Places

Tar Heel Junior Historian Article, Online. What did Jim Crow laws mean for North Carolina's African Americans? Read how segregation visibly affected daily life in the Tar Heel State. This article appeared in the Spring 2004 issue of Tar Heel Junior Historian magazine.   details   direct link: View resource now (opens in new window).

Aviation in North Carolina, 1873-2003

Tar Heel Junior Historian Article, Online. Investigate state's aviation history and learn how North Carolina earned the motto First in Flight. This article appeared in the Fall 2003 issue of Tar Heel Junior Historian magazine.   details   direct link: View resource now (opens in new window).

Barbecue: Still Smoking after Three Hundred Years

Tar Heel Junior Historian Article, Online. North Carolina has developed its own type of smoked pork barbeque. Barbeque can trace its roots back to at least the colonial era and is still a major food presence in North Carolina today. This article originally appeared in the Spring 2007 Tar Heel Junior Historian Magazine.   details   direct link: View resource now (opens in new window).

Challenging the Chain Stores

Tar Heel Junior Historian Article, Online. In 1929 a new cooperative business group called the Colored Merchants Association (CMA) formed in Winston-Salem. This group’s goal was to preserve independently owned African American grocery stores who were losing business to chain stores. This article originally appeared in the Spring 2007 Tar Heel Junior Historian Magazine.   details   direct link: View resource now (opens in new window).

Charlotte Hawkins Brown: Legendary Educator

NIE Article, Online. A true legend in her time, Charlotte Hawkins Brown was not only a great educator but also a civil rights advocate. This article appeared in the Raleigh News & Observer, 6 February 2004.   details   direct link: View resource now (opens in new window).

Charlotte Hawkins Brown: The Evolution of a North Carolina Legacy

Tar Heel Junior Historian Article, Online. Read about the accomplishments of African American educator Charlotte Hawkins Brown, who founded a school for African American children in the early 1900s in North Carolina. This article appeared in the Spring 2000 issue of Tar Heel Junior Historian magazine.   details   direct link: View resource now (opens in new window).

Civil Rights in North Carolina: A Change Is Gonna Come

Professional Development, Online. Explore civil rights in North Carolina through an interactive online teacher workshop filled with valuable information and ideas for teaching. The first three sessions focus on the experiences of African Americans and American Indians in the state from 1830 to 1980. In each of these sessions, a history of civil rights is interspersed with detailed articles on an event, an issue, and a biography of a person important to the period. In the fourth session, you’ll explore the history of civil rights activism of other groups in North Carolina. The last session investigates the current and future state of civil rights. An interactive time line and oral histories are included.   details   direct link: View resource now (opens in new window).

Colonial North Carolina

History-in-a-Box. Geography played a major role in the settlement patterns of colonial North Carolina. Explore colonial family life and learn about the cultures of four groups that settled in the state’s three regions. Examine reproduction artifacts, play with toys, and listen to period music. Learn about clothing, housing, cooking, education, and trade. This project was made possible through the support of the North Carolina Society Daughters of the American Revolution.   details

Communities of Faith: American Indian Churches in Eastern North Carolina

Tar Heel Junior Historian Article, Online. In North Carolina, following the Civil War, the government passed laws segregating public facilities by race. Restrooms, theaters, and schools were divided for “white” and “colored” people, but American Indians did not consider themselves “colored,” a term used to mean African American. Many American Indians formed their own churches to separate and preserve their distinct racial and cultural identity. This article appeared in the Fall 2005 issue of Tar Heel Junior Historian magazine.   details   direct link: View resource now (opens in new window).

Contemporary Migration in North Carolina

Tar Heel Junior Historian Article, Online. Until the mid-1990s, more people migrated out of than into the state. Between 1980 and 1990, North Carolina had a net in-migration of 374,954 people. Find out what has caused this population tilt, or reversal of past trends. This article appeared in the Spring 1995 issue of Tar Heel Junior Historian magazine.   details   direct link: View resource now (opens in new window).

Don't You Know There's a War On?

Video, Online. This program explores the inspiring firsthand accounts of eleven individuals who experienced World War II. These men and women belong to what broadcast journalist Tom Brokaw calls the "greatest generation." They are ordinary citizens who did extraordinary things for their country. Whether they saw combat or collected scrap metal, North Carolinians joined countless Americans who served, sacrificed, and persevered during the war. 33 minutes   details   direct link: View resource now (opens in new window).

Don't You Know There's a War On?

At the Museum, Virtual Field Trip. This updated virtual field trip focuses on World War II from a North Carolina perspective. Hands-on activities, images and voices from World War II participants, and interactive discussion help students learn about life for North Carolinians on the home front and at war.   details

Everybody's War: North Carolina and World War II

History-in-a-Box. Everyday life changed during World War II as families were separated, food and goods were rationed, and travel and pleasure driving were curtailed. North Carolinians from the mountains to the coast helped the war effort by volunteering, by salvaging and conserving, by growing Victory gardens, and by buying war bonds. Use the scrapbook of memories; the stories of North Carolinians; and objects, images, and words of the period to teach about the changes that this war brought to our state.   details

Expanding to the West: Settlement of the Piedmont Region, 1730 to 1775

Tar Heel Junior Historian Article, Online. Discover how North Carolina's backcountry was settled. Who used the Great Indian Trading Path and the Great Wagon Road? Examine immigrants to the backcountry and learn their reasons for migrating to that area. This article appeared in the Spring 1995 issue of Tar Heel Junior Historian magazine.   details   direct link: View resource now (opens in new window).

Farm and Factory Struggles

Tar Heel Junior Historian Article, Online. The 1920s brought prosperity for some people, but for North Carolina's farmers, sharecroppers, and mill workers, this roaring decade brought more hardship. This article appeared in the Spring 2004 issue of Tar Heel Junior Historian magazine.   details   direct link: View resource now (opens in new window).

Fighter Pilot: Vernon Haywood

NIE Article, Online. Can you imagine flying more than 6,000 hours in your lifetime? North Carolina's Colonel Vernon Haywood began flying in World War II with the Tuskegee Airmen, an African American fighter squadron. By the time he retired in 1971, he had spent enough hours behind the controls of military airplanes to fill 250 days! This article appeared in the Raleigh News & Observer, 7 November 2003.   details   direct link: View resource now (opens in new window).

Footsteps of Change with VISTA

Tar Heel Junior Historian Article, Online. Alice Eley Jones reflects on her experiences as an African American growing up in segregated North Carolina and recalls how she joined the grassroots fight for civil rights. This article appeared in the Fall 2004 issue of Tar Heel Junior Historian magazine.   details   direct link: View resource now (opens in new window).

Friends in Liberty: North Carolina and the American Revolution Teacher Supplement

Classroom Activity, Online. Activities, ideas, and resources designed to supplement and reinforce information presented in the video, Friends in Liberty: North Carolina in the American Revolution.   details   direct link: View resource now (opens in new window).

Love May Lead to Freedom, but It Usually Takes a First Few Steps: The Story of the 1960 Greensboro Sit-Ins

Tar Heel Junior Historian Article, Online. Discover how four young African American men from North Carolina began one of the most influential demonstrations of the Civil Rights movement by sitting down at a Woolworth's lunch counter on February 1, 1960. This article appeared in the Fall 2004 issue of Tar Heel Junior Historian magazine.   details   direct link: View resource now (opens in new window).

Marks on the Land We Can See: Routes of Carolina's Earliest Explorers

Tar Heel Junior Historian Article, Online. American Indian Pathways formed an extensive network that connected communities across the country. European soldiers and settlers, traders, debtors, escaped indentured servants and slaves, and raiding parties used these paths. This article appeared in the Fall 2007 issue of Tar Heel Junior Historian magazine.   details   direct link: View resource now (opens in new window).

Moving through History

Tar Heel Junior Historian Article, Online. Immigration and migration have always affected the people of North Carolina. The earliest American Indians likely emigrated 15,000 years ago from Asia. Europeans immigrated to North Carolina beginning in the 1500s. Africans underwent a forced migration as slave laborers, and some Cherokee were forced to immigrate to Oklahoma by the federal government. This article appeared in the Spring 2006 issue of Tar Heel Junior Historian magazine.   details   direct link: View resource now (opens in new window).

Nat Turner's Revolt in Virginia Raises Concerns in Neighboring North Carolina

Tar Heel Junior Historian Article, Online. Nat Turner led a slave uprising in Virginia in 1831 in which approximately sixty whites were killed. This revolt contributed to white fear of slave revolt throughout the south including North Carolina. This article originally appeared in the Fall 1996 Tar Heel Junior Historian Magazine.   details   direct link: View resource now (opens in new window).