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North Carolina's first textile mills opened in the early 1800s. By the Civil War, 45 cotton and woolen mills were operating in the state. By 1960, North Carolina's 1,110 textile mills employed 55 percent of the state's manufacturing workforce. From the 1980s through the early 2000s there was a period of marked decline in the industry, Despite such, textiles continue as a recognizable force in the state, adapting to changing technologies.
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Born in Baltimore and raised in Durham, Murray became an activist for civil rights long before the 1960s Civil Rights movement. In 1941, she helped form the Congress for Racial Equality (CORE). Among many firsts, in the mid 1970s, she became the first African American woman priest ordained by the Episcopal Church,
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Barker is recognized prominently among a group of women in Edenton who protested a tax on tea in1774. Their action goes down in history as the first recorded political demonstration by women in America.
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4.From Memoir To Movie by Bloom, Sally Causey Tar Heel Junior Historian Vol. 63 Issue 2, Spring 2024
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44001
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A film, "Friends in Liberty" produced in 2009 by the North Carolina Museum of History is based on Hugh McDonald's 18 century memoir recording early events of the American Revolution in North Carolina. McDonald was a teenager when he joined the conflict. McDonald's memoir describes the Battle of Moores Creek, notes a parade on July 4, 1777 in Philadelphia and a memorable experience where McDonald and his platoon of 16 teenagers were brought before George Washington and honored after have broken through lines four times during the Battle of Germantown.
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During the colonial period and into the Revolution, British agents were deployed among the native people to build trust and influence. Devastation after the Cherokee War of 1776, however, prompted many to stay out of the Revolutionary War conflict.
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44032
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After fighting to win independence from Great Britain with its centralized government and unpopular taxation, North Carolina was in fact very reluctant to participate in the Constitutional Convention but eventually did so, initially electing Richard Caswell, William R. Davie, Willie Jones, Alexander Martin and Richard Dobbs Speight as representatives.
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