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Mattye Reed, founder, curator, and director of N.C. A & T State University's Mattye Reed African Heritage Center, was honored by the North Carolina Folklore Society with its Brown-Hudson Folklore Award.
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North Carolina Folklore Journal
(NoCar GR 110 N8 N6), Vol. 40 Issue 2, Summer/Fall 1993,
p76-79, il
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2323
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In 1880, the Outer Banks Pea Island Lifesaving Station was the nation's only station entirely manned by Blacks. Led by Richard Etheridge, the men earned a reputation for skill and courage during Reconstruction, a time of prejudice and racial tension.
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3174
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Afro-Americans during the antebellum period consisted of two groups: slaves, who were considered property; and free Blacks, whose rights, such as voting, were limited by the Constitution of 1835.
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3854
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On March 7, 1998, at Durham's Hayti Heritage Center, the North Carolina African American Network on Historic Preservation was established. The organization seeks to preserve buildings and sites that are relevant to African-American history.
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The Outer Banks Pea Island Lifesaving Station was the nation's only station manned by African Americans. Operating from the late 19th-century until 1947, when machines made rowboats obsolete, the surfmen aided over 30 distressed ships and saved over 200 people. Their most famous rescue was saving the crew of the hurricane-ravaged schooner E.S. NEWMAN on October 11, 1896.
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Several members of the Pea Island Life-saving station, including the station keeper, were dismissed for negligence in 1879. When Richard Etheridge, an Afro-American, was placed in command, the remainder of the white crew quit, and Etheridge was free to choose a crew possessing the best qualities of a lifesaver. The crew was all Afro-American. Their service in saving lives earned them a reputation for skill and courage.
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Goshen, in Jones County, was one of the first African American towns settled at the close of the Civil War. The author recounts the history of the community gleaned from visits with Goshen resident Hattie Brown, who learned the history from her grandmother.
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7961
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In the 1880s southern politicians began turning against newly freed African Americans and passed many restrictive laws against them. African Americans in North Carolina faced a dilemma--stay and face discrimination or move to an unknown life somewhere else. Many chose to go North. Between 1900 and 1940, over two million African Americans left the South. North and South Carolina and Virginia topped the list of immigrants. The McKinleys discuss the life they made for themselves in the North. Since the 1970s, many have been returning, and North Carolina has been one of the most popular states to come back to.
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In 1880, when Richard Etheridge became the first African American in command of a life saving station, the Pea Island Life Saving Station on North Carolina's Outer Banks, the four white crewmen quit. Etheridge was free to choose a crew possessing the best qualities of a lifesaver. The crew was all African American, the first such in the history of the service. Led by Etheridge, the men earned a reputation for skill and courage in saving lives during a time of prejudice and racial tension, until the station was decommissioned in 1947. Harrison recounts the station's finest hour, the rescue of the captain, his family and crew, from the schooner E. S. Newman, on the night of October 11, 1896. One hundred years later, on March 5, 1996, Etheridge and his crew were posthumously awarded the Gold Lifesaving Medal, the service's highest peacetime honor.
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On October 11, 1896, the E.S. NEWMAN, a three-mast schooner out of Stonington, Connecticut, was caught in heavy storms off the Virginia coast. Captain S.A. Gardiner ordered the ship be beached in the \"Graveyard of the Atlantic,\" and a warning rocket be fired. At the time, Captain Richard Etheridge and his crew, all of whom were black Americans, were at the Pea Island Lifesaving Station, two miles north of the wreck. Although Etheridge had no lifesaving equipment, he and his crew were able to rescue the ten aboard during the dangerous storm currents. Etheridge was born in Dare County in 1842 and was in charge of Pea Island until his death in 1900.
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9390
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Aunt Betsy Brewington died at the age of 109 on May 6, 1974. Brewington was purportedly the last person living to have been born into slavery in North Carolina.
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After years of trying and being told no, New Bern native Samuel J. Battle became New York City's first African American policeman in 1911. He was later promoted to sergeant and later detective. He has served 30 years on the force. Recently Mayor LaGuardia appointed him Municipal Parole Commissioner in New York. His term expires in January 1950.
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The author explores changes in legislation which opened up new apprenticeship opportunities for free African American children. An apprenticeship system offered the primary route for skilled African American males, though little information regarding young women is available. Statistical information concerning wages and occupations of free African Americans is provided, especially from the 1850 and 1860 periods when Federal Census Records broadened to include this information.
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North Carolina Historical Review
(NoCar F251 .N892), Vol. 19 Issue 3, July 1942,
p239-259, f
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23758
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Mamie Thompson Gumbs is the director and founder of Forest City museum MaimyEtta Black Fine Arts Museum and Historical Society and works to shed light on the black experience in the South.
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WNC Magazine
(NoCar F261 .W64), Vol. 3 Issue 1, January/February 2009,
p46-51, il, por
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27319
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Hood Tours explore Asheville’s African-American history in the areas of arts, environmentalism, and entrepreneurship. The educational experience covers both past and present African-American history with particular attention given to E.W. Pearson (1906-1946) who was a prominent historical figure in Asheville.
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