Record #:

22578

Author(s):

Janken, Kenneth R.

Abstract:

In February 1971, Wilmington, North Carolina endured racially-charged violence that led to the trial of nine black males and one white female for crimes of arson and shooting. The 'Wilmington Ten' were sentenced to a combined 282 years in prison. Forty years later, North Carolina governor Beverly Perdue pardoned the group due to outrageous conduct and misappropriation of justice from the state in the 1970s.

Source:

North Carolina Historical Review (NoCar F251 .N892), Vol. 92 Issue 1, January 2015, p1-48, por Periodical Website

Subject(s):

Race relations--Wilmington; Wilmington Ten

Record #:

21459

Author(s):

Janken, Kenneth R.

Abstract:

A look at the history of and controversy surrounding the 1944 publication of \"What the Negro Wants\" by the University of North Carolina Press as an example of racial paternalism and a startling instance of southern liberal hypocrisy in the prehistory of the civil rights movement. The publication was a collection of essays written by fourteen African American leaders calling for an end to segregation and dispensing with the idea of reforming the old system of race relations in favor of establishing a new one.

Source:

North Carolina Historical Review (NoCar F251 .N892), Vol. 70 Issue 2, April 1993, p153-179, il, por, f Periodical Website

Subject(s):

Civil rights movement; What the Negro Wants (Publication)