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An area near Swansboro known as the Hammocks, as much as S.R. Simmons Camp, helped shape the character of generations of rural, black high school students. Recollections such as former camper and camp director Willie Randolph attest the enduring impact of what’s also described as a beach resort and community retreat.
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S.B. Simmons Camp--Hammocks Beach--Swansboro; New Farmers of America--organization--black farmers ; Hammocks Beach State Park; North Carolina Teachers Association--teachers--African American ; North Carolina Teachers Association--teachers--Black Americans ; The Hammocks--Gertrude Hurst; Sharpe, William (Bill) Pleasants, 1903-1970; Bear Island State Park--African Americans; Bear Island State Park--Black Americans
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23931
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During the age of Jim Crow, African Americans were denied access to shared public places, including leisure spaces. This article examines the establishment of Hammocks Beach as a blacks-only beach, while simultaneously highlighting the larger African American struggle for social freedom in North Carolina and challenging the progressive image of the state regarding integration.
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North Carolina Historical Review
(NoCar F251 .N892), Vol. 92 Issue 2, April 2015,
p145-164, il, por, f
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4475
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The names of Dr. William Sharpe, Gertrude Hurst, and John Hurst are bound to Hammocks Beach State Park's history. Sharpe bought the land in 1914, and Hurst, an Afro-American outdoorsman, managed it for over forty years. Sharpe planned to will the Hursts the property, but they knew they lacked funds to develop it. At their suggestion, Sharpe gave it to the North Carolina Teachers Association, an African American teachers' organization. In 1961, association gave it to the state for a park.
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3807
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A chance visit to Bear Island in 1914 by William Sharpe, who became the island's fourth owner since 1713, would eventually lead to the creation of Hammocks Beach State Park in 1961. The park, consisting of the island and two mainland acres, is one of the state's last unspoiled barrier islands.
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10725
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The travel and tourism era of North Carolina started the day Bill Sharpe took his typewriter to the Sir Walter Hotel room that served as the first makeshift office of the Advertising Division of North Carolina. The year was 1937, and before that time, many Tar Heels had never thought of their state's attractions as of sufficient economic importance to constitute an \"industry.\" The State Legislature passed a law authorizing the Advertising Division and Governor Clyde Hoey gave Bill Sharpe the responsibility of making it a reality. Sharpe went on the direct the office under four governors and became one of America's top publicists.
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30780
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Bill Sharpe has published the second volume of NEW GEOGRAPHY OF NORTH CAROLINA. The book is a mix of geography, history, anecdotes, social life, and economic report of a selection of counties in North Carolina.
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17258
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Bill Sharpe, a somewhat obscure newspaperman beyond his home territory of Winston-Salem, has become known in the last two years all over North Carolina and throughout the country. On July 1, 1937, Governor Clyde Hoey appointed him head of the News Bureau of the State Advertising Commission which was then in the Department of Conservation and Development. This article describes Sharpe's work as the state's top publicist.
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