The Violent World Of Broadus Miller

Author : Kevin W. Young
Publisher : UNC Press Books
Page : 253 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2024-04-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9798890887627

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The Violent World of Broadus Miller by Kevin W. Young Pdf

In the summer of 1927, an itinerant Black laborer named Broadus Miller was accused of killing a fifteen-year-old white girl in Morganton, North Carolina. Miller became the target of a massive manhunt lasting nearly two weeks. After he was gunned down in the North Carolina mountains, his body was taken back to Morganton and publicly displayed on the courthouse lawn on a Sunday afternoon, attracting thousands of spectators. Kevin W. Young vividly illustrates the violence-wracked world of the early twentieth century in the Carolinas, the world that created both Miller and the hunters who killed him. Young provides a panoramic overview of this turbulent time, telling important contextual histories of events that played into this tragic story, including the horrific prison conditions of the era, the rise of the Ku Klux Klan, and the influx of Black immigrants into North Carolina. More than an account of a single murder case, this book vividly illustrates the stormy race relations in the Carolinas during the early 1900s, reminding us that the legacy of this era lingers into the present.

Author : Janette Thomas Greenwood
Publisher : Univ of North Carolina Press
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2001-02-01
Category : History
ISBN : 0807849561

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Bittersweet Legacy by Janette Thomas Greenwood Pdf

Bittersweet Legacy is the dramatic story of the relationship between two generations of black and white southerners in Charlotte, North Carolina, from 1850 to 1910. Janette Greenwood describes the interactions between black and white business and p

Author : Moses Roper
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2009-11
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1409985601

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A Narrative of the Adventures and Escape of Moses Roper from American Slavery by Moses Roper Pdf

Moses Roper (c. 1815-1891) was a mulatto slave who wrote one of the major early books about life as a slave in the United States - A Narrative of the Adventures and Escape of Moses Roper From American Slavery (1838). Moses was born in Caswell County, North Carolina. He grew up with his mother and was trained as a domestic slave until he was about seven years old when his father exchanged him and his mother for other slaves. Roper struggled tremendously when he was put to work in the fields and forests of the South-receiving harsher treatment for his inefficiency from his overseers and masters. Throughout his time in slavery, Moses attempted escape on at least 16 occasions, most of them while under his cruelest master, Mr. Gooch. He became quite famous in England because of his grand escape from American slavery and the book he later wrote about his life as a slave. In his book, he made sure to include explicit examples of the torture methods used by slave holders.

Author : Daniel S. Pierce
Publisher : Univ of North Carolina Press
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2010-04-01
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 0807895725

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Real NASCAR by Daniel S. Pierce Pdf

In this history of the stock car racing circuit known as NASCAR, Daniel S. Pierce offers a revealing new look at the sport from its postwar beginnings on Daytona Beach and Piedmont dirt tracks through the early 1970s, when the sport spread beyond its southern roots and gained national recognition. Real NASCAR not only confirms the popular notion of NASCAR's origins in bootlegging, but also establishes beyond a doubt the close ties between organized racing and the illegal liquor industry, a story that readers will find both fascinating and controversial.

Author : Gordon B. McKinney
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2010-10
Category : History
ISBN : 0807897248

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Southern Mountain Republicans 1865-1900 by Gordon B. McKinney Pdf

The first comprehensive account of U.S. involvement in the war against Zimbabwe (formerly Rhodesia), exploring how our relationship with Rhodesia helped define interracial dynamics in the United States, and vice versa.

Author : Michael A. Gomez
Publisher : Univ of North Carolina Press
Page : 385 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2000-11-09
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780807861714

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Exchanging Our Country Marks by Michael A. Gomez Pdf

The transatlantic slave trade brought individuals from diverse African regions and cultures to a common destiny in the American South. In this comprehensive study, Michael Gomez establishes tangible links between the African American community and its African origins and traces the process by which African populations exchanged their distinct ethnic identities for one defined primarily by the conception of race. He examines transformations in the politics, social structures, and religions of slave populations through 1830, by which time the contours of a new African American identity had begun to emerge. After discussing specific ethnic groups in Africa, Gomez follows their movement to North America, where they tended to be amassed in recognizable concentrations within individual colonies (and, later, states). For this reason, he argues, it is possible to identify particular ethnic cultural influences and ensuing social formations that heretofore have been considered unrecoverable. Using sources pertaining to the African continent as well as runaway slave advertisements, ex-slave narratives, and folklore, Gomez reveals concrete and specific links between particular African populations and their North American progeny, thereby shedding new light on subsequent African American social formation.

Author : Cynthia Cumfer
Publisher : UNC Press Books
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2012-09-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781469606590

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Separate Peoples, One Land by Cynthia Cumfer Pdf

Exploring the mental worlds of the major groups interacting in a borderland setting, Cynthia Cumfer offers a broad, multiracial intellectual and cultural history of the Tennessee frontier in the Revolutionary and early national periods, leading up to the era of rapid westward expansion and Cherokee removal. Attentive to the complexities of race, gender, class, and spirituality, Cumfer offers a rare glimpse into the cultural logic of Native American, African American, and Euro-American men and women as contact with one another powerfully transformed their ideas about themselves and the territory they came to share. The Tennessee frontier shaped both Cherokee and white assumptions about diplomacy and nationhood. After contact, both groups moved away from local and personal notions about polity to embrace nationhood. Excluded from the nationalization process, slaves revived and modified African and American premises about patronage and community, while free blacks fashioned an African American doctrine of freedom that was both communal and individual. Paying particular attention to the influence of older European concepts of civilization, Cumfer shows how Tennesseans, along with other Americans and Europeans, modified European assumptions to contribute to a discourse about civilization, one both dynamic and destructive, which has profoundly shaped world history.

Author : Elizabeth Lawrence
Publisher : Univ of North Carolina Press
Page : 271 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2000-11-09
Category : Gardening
ISBN : 9780807860007

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Through the Garden Gate by Elizabeth Lawrence Pdf

Through the Garden Gate is a collection of 144 of the popular weekly articles that Elizabeth Lawrence wrote for The Charlotte Observer from 1957 to 1971. With those columns, a delightful blend of gardening lore, horticultural expertise, and personal adventures, Lawrence inspired thousands of southern gardeners. "[A] fine contribution to the green-thumb genre.--Publishers Weekly

Author : Vanessa Siddle Walker
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2014-12-29
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1469613840

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Hello Professor by Vanessa Siddle Walker Pdf

Hello Professor: A Black Principal and Professional Leadership in the Segregated South

Author : Mark M. Smith
Publisher : ReadHowYouWant.com
Page : 378 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2009-09-14
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781458719805

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How Race Is Made by Mark M. Smith Pdf

For at least two centuries, argues mark smith, white southerners used all of their senses - not just their eyes - to construct racial difference and dene race. His provocative analysis, extending from the colonial period to the mid-twentieth century, shows how whites of all classes used the articial binary of ''black'' and ''white'' to justify slavery and erect the political, legal, and social structure of segregation. Based on painstaking research, how race is made is a highly original, always frank, and often disturbing book. After enslaved Africans were initially brought to America, the offspring of black and white sexual relationships (consensual and forced) complicated the purely visual sense of racial typing. As mixed-race people became more and more common and as antebellum race-based slavery and then post bellum racial segregation became central to southern society, white southerners asserted that they could relyon their other senses - touch, smell, sound, and taste - to identify who was ''white'' and who was not. Sensory racial stereotypes were invented and irrational, but at every turn, smith shows, these constructions of race, immune to logic, signied difference and perpetuated inequality. Smith argues that the history of southern race relations and the construction of racial difference on which that history is built cannot be understood fully on the basis of sight alone. In order to come to terms with the south's past and present, smith says, we must explore the sensory dynamics underpinning the deeply emotional construction of race. How race is made takes a bold step toward that understanding.

Author : Adam Lucas,Steve Kirschner,Matt Bowers
Publisher : Univ of North Carolina Press
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2009-11-02
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 0807899232

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One Fantastic Ride by Adam Lucas,Steve Kirschner,Matt Bowers Pdf

One Fantastic Ride is a behind-the-scenes portrait of the unforgettable journey to the University of North Carolina's 2009 basketball national championship, the program's fifth NCAA Tournament title. Adam Lucas, Steve Kirschner, and Matt Bowers were with the Tar Heels every step of the way, interviewing coaches, players, and staff. As the 2008-09 season opened, national pundits widely considered the Tar Heels the hands-down favorite to win the title. But injuries to key players, surprising midseason losses, and formidable ACC competition made the ride bumpier than expected. In the crucial last month of the season, however, a veteran team drew on their experience--and subtle adjustments by coaches and players--to achieve the goal they'd set for themselves after their disappointing defeat in the 2008 Final Four. More than just a season-in-the-life of a perennially excellent program, this book captures the crowning achievement of a senior class that exemplified the proud tradition of Carolina Basketball, both on and off the court. They became the most decorated class in UNC Basketball history while enjoying every aspect of their Tar Heel experience. With "Thoughts for the Day" taken directly from Carolina Basketball practice plans and more than 200 color photographs, this book is a unique keepsake for fans everywhere. Full of insights from players and coaches, One Fantastic Ride takes an intimate look at how the Tar Heels pulled it all together to come out on top.

Author : James Benson Sellers
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 1943
Category : Prohibition
ISBN : UVA:X000920387

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The Prohibition Movement in Alabama, 1702 to 1943 by James Benson Sellers Pdf

Author : John Hope Franklin
Publisher : Univ of North Carolina Press
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2000-11-09
Category : History
ISBN : 9780807866689

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The Free Negro in North Carolina, 1790-1860 by John Hope Franklin Pdf

John Hope Franklin has devoted his professional life to the study of African Americans. Originally published in 1943 by UNC Press, The Free Negro in North Carolina, 1790-1860 was his first book on the subject. As Franklin shows, freed slaves in the antebellum South did not enjoy the full rights of citizenship. Even in North Carolina, reputedly more liberal than most southern states, discriminatory laws became so harsh that many voluntarily returned to slavery.

Author : Michael O. West,William G. Martin,Fanon Che Wilkins
Publisher : Univ of North Carolina Press
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2009-09-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0807898724

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From Toussaint to Tupac by Michael O. West,William G. Martin,Fanon Che Wilkins Pdf

Transcending geographic and cultural lines, From Toussaint to Tupac is an ambitious collection of essays exploring black internationalism and its implications for a black consciousness. At its core, black internationalism is a struggle against oppression, whether manifested in slavery, colonialism, or racism. The ten essays in this volume offer a comprehensive overview of the global movements that define black internationalism, from its origins in the colonial period to the present. From Toussaint to Tupac focuses on three moments in global black history: the American and Haitian revolutions, the Garvey movement and the Communist International following World War I, and the Black Power movement of the late twentieth century. Contributors demonstrate how black internationalism emerged and influenced events in particular localities, how participants in the various struggles communicated across natural and man-made boundaries, and how the black international aided resistance on the local level, creating a collective consciousness. In sharp contrast to studies that confine Black Power to particular national locales, this volume demonstrates the global reach and resonance of the movement. The volume concludes with a discussion of hip hop, including its cultural and ideological antecedents in Black Power. Contributors: Hakim Adi, Middlesex University, London Sylvia R. Frey, Tulane University William G. Martin, Binghamton University Brian Meeks, University of the West Indies, Mona, Jamaica Marc D. Perry, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign Lara Putnam, University of Pittsburgh Vijay Prashad, Trinity College Robyn Spencer, Lehman College Robert T. Vinson, College of William and Mary Michael O. West, Binghamton University Fanon Che Wilkins, Doshisha University, Kyoto, Japan

Author : J. Duvall
Publisher : Springer
Page : 194 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2008-04-28
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780230611825

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Race and White Identity in Southern Fiction by J. Duvall Pdf

White southern writers are frequently associated with the racism of blackface minstrelsy in their representations of African American characters, however, this book makes visible the ways in which southern novelists repeatedly imagine their white characters as in some sense fundamentally black.