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Dan Tucker is a folk character brought to life by 19th-century minstrels. Greensboro native Calvin Henderson Wiley revived Dan Tucker in his novel, \"Roanoke,\" set on the North Carolina coast.
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10214
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Rogers recounts the life of Calvin Henderson Wiley, who was North Carolina's first superintendent of common schools.
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We the People of North Carolina (NoCar F 251 W4), Vol. 7 Issue 7, Nov 1949, p17-19, por, bibl
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15122
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It due to the efforts of Calvin H. Wiley that the public schools of North Carolina were given their start. He was the driving factor behind the establishment of funding for these institutions. He was also the first Superintendent and contended with the lack of uniformity in textbooks throughout the public school system.
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The State (NoCar F 251 S77), Vol. 8 Issue 41, Mar 1941, p6, 22
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18603
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Built in 1820, the historic house, Woodbourne, in Guilford County was the home of Calvin Wiley's parents. Wiley was a writer and published a number of books in the mid-19th century. He founded the Southern Weekly Post in Raleigh and the North Carolina Presbyterian in Fayetteville. Elected to the General Assembly in 1850, he helped pass the law establishing the office of state superintendent of common schools and served as the first superintendent from 1852 to 1865.
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The State (NoCar F 251 S77), Vol. 10 Issue 4, June 1942, p4, 22, il
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20209
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Although typically remembered as the first superintendent of common schools in North Carolina, Calvin Henderson Wiley was part of a small group of determined North Carolinians who established a state literature.
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20216
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This article concludes another piece from July, 1954 that looks at the push for a common literature of North Carolina through the letters of its most staunch promoter, Calvin Henderson Wiley.
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20437
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Calvin Henderson Wiley was a lawyer and a State Representative for Guilford County between 1850 and 1851. All but two of these letters were previously unpublished. The letters cover a period from 1840 to the early 1850s and are between Wiley and his mother or sister or to his childhood friend Jeremy F. Gilmer. These letters deal with concern for his family, his aspiration for public office, and the daily functions of the legislature.
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20452
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Calvin H. Wiley served as the state's first superintendent of public schools but is most recognized as being the author of the North Carolina Reader. During the mid-19th century there was a growing demand for Southern literature. Wiley's volume became an important piece in this regard and was read by generations of school children to instill state and southern pride. The author looks at the growing consciousness to highlight southern writers and the link between writing and patriotism within the state.
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20574
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Calvin H. Wiley was the Superintendent of Common Schools from 1852 to 1865 in North Carolina. Though a slave owner, Wiley held more sympathetic views towards African Americans. By analyzing Wiley's portrayal of African Americans in two of his novels, \"Alamance\" and \"Roanoke,\" the author evaluates Wiley's perspective on slavery and how this differed from his peers.
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20767
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This article is a memoir written by Mary C. Wiley about her recollections of her father, the first superintendent of the Public Schools of North Carolina, Calvin Henderson Wiley. The author's narrative provides a description of her childhood home and of the spaces and things that belonged to her father, as well as of stories told to her by him. Additional biographical information is provided in the footnotes.
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20792
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This is a reprint of letters written by the fist superintendent of the North Carolina common Schools Calvin H. Wiley while he was in Knoxville, Tennessee serving as the Superintendent of the American Bible Society for Middle and East Tennessee. An introduction and running narrative from the author, Wiley's daughter, provides context for the letters as well as some biographical information on Wiley.
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21532
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This article examines the personal letters between Calvin Henderson Wiley, North Carolina's first superintendent of public schools and politician John Wilson Cuningham. These letters tell scholars how public events in North Carolina were perceived through the eyes of these two prominent citizens.
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21649
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This article examines failed attempts by North Carolina antebellum schoolbook publishers to convince public schools of the need for textbooks that had a Southern point of view. Calvin Henderson Wiley, North Carolina's state superintendent of common schools from 1853 to 1865, was a leading voice on this subject and wrote the 'North Carolina Reader' from a Southern point of view. The book did not sell well because of the under developed book distribution network of the South and the extra cost special textbooks required.
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