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21510
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Sometime before 1824, the slave celebration of Jonkonnu spread to North Carolina from the Caribbean Islands. Jonkonnu is a unique Christmas celebration in which elaborate costumes are worn and distinctive dances are danced to celebrate the holiday. The tradition was transplanted to America with Caribbean slaves and became a custom in black communities until about 1900 when it was abandoned by African-Americans.
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North Carolina Historical Review
(NoCar F251 .N892), Vol. 65 Issue 2, Apr 1988,
p127-153 , il, por, f
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21511
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Harry Golden was a famous author, lecturer, and civil rights advocate in the late 1950s. His fame brought much scrutiny to his past when a 1929 fraud conviction was brought into public light. His conviction, the result of shady stock market deal, led to a four year sentence in federal prison. While this did not harm Golden's new career, the original trial had damaged the career of Methodist bishop James Cannon who had been taken in by Golden's fake stock firm. In the 1928 election, Cannon had campaigned against anti-prohibitionist Al Smith and in retaliation, Senator Carter Glass used the scandal to weaken Cannon's political clout and moral authority.
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North Carolina Historical Review
(NoCar F251 .N892), Vol. 65 Issue 2, Apr 1988,
p154-172 , il, por, f
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21512
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Leading up to the American Revolution, a document authored by the anonymous 'Musquetoe' was released that caricatured and satirized the leading Whigs and Tories of the Lower Cape Fear River Valley in North Carolina. The document exposed how the region exhibited many of the same strains found in other regions of the colony that had already escalated into open conflict. A large conflict was between the merchant class who had recently attained gentry status and therefore remained in the Loyalist camp, and the planters who resented the rise of merchants and were more often Whigs.
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North Carolina Historical Review
(NoCar F251 .N892), Vol. 65 Issue 2, Apr 1988,
p173-207 , il, por, f
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21516
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This article looks at ordained Congregational minister, Samuel Stanford Ashley of Massachusetts and his positive influence on the educational system of North Carolina during his residence there on behalf of the American Missionary Association (AMA) between 1865 and 1871. While there he established numerous schools and an orphanage and worked to include in the state's new constitution the guarantee of a public school education for blacks, women, and the disabled. He also championed freedmen's rights and the concept of equality before the law.
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North Carolina Historical Review
(NoCar F251 .N892), Vol. 72 Issue 4, Oct 1995,
p456-483, il, por, map, f
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21518
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A look at the evolution of the Duke Endowment, created by James B. Duke in 1924, as it has succeeded in maintaining its founder's concern for education and health care despite the termination of its relationship with the Duke Power Company. In the early 1970s, the endowment's board wanted to sell its stock in Duke Power and diversify its portfolio, however the resistance of Doris Duke and a revival of utility stocks in the 1980s tabled those plans until after her death in 1993. The trustees have managed the endowment creatively and in accordance with the philanthropic intention of its founder, but James Duke's plan for \"perpetual philanthropy\" funded by Duke Power Company dividends has ended.
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North Carolina Historical Review
(NoCar F251 .N892), Vol. 74 Issue 1, Jan 1997,
p1-18, il, por, f
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21519
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An examination of two neglected accounts of the Anglo-Cherokee War of 1760-61 by Thomas Mante and James Boswell that clarify General Archibald Montgomerie's 1760 decision to halt his campaign short of relieving the besieged Fort Loudon. Mante and Boswell depict Montgomerie as an accomplished combat leader who correctly decided not to sacrifice his men in a possibly futile expedition as well as to preserve the regiment for the more important struggle against the French.
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North Carolina Historical Review
(NoCar F251 .N892), Vol. 74 Issue 1, Jan 1997,
p19-36, il, por, map
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21520
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This article concentrates on the efforts made to improve the navigability of watercourses - rivers and streams - within the state in the years between the American Revolution and the Civil War. Additional attention is given to the role of government, particularly that of the state of North Carolina, as a political force that energized improvements for the benefit of the people first through the \"quasi-public corporation\" system of encouraging private corporations to undertake navigation improvements, and then eventually moving to direct investment in corporate enterprises while assuming responsibility for supervising the more important navigation projects.
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North Carolina Historical Review
(NoCar F251 .N892), Vol. 74 Issue 1, Jan 1997,
p37-73, il, por, map, f
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21522
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Intramural play at Wake Forest College in 1882 was the first organized collegiate football games to be played in North Carolina. This led to the formation of the North Carolina Inter-Collegiate Foot-ball Association in 1888, which represented teams from Trinity College, the University of North Carolina, and Wake Forest College. While the league had problems early on, it expanded in the 1890s and promoted the new sport of football effectively throughout the South.
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North Carolina Historical Review
(NoCar F251 .N892), Vol. 65 Issue 3, July 1988,
p263-286 , il, por, f
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21523
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Between 1909 and 1917, tobacco tycoon R.J. Reynolds built a large country estate, Reynolda, just north of Winston-Salem. Primarily the project of Reynolds' wife Katherine, Reynolda was meant to be a model of scientific agriculture and an example for agriculturalists in the South.
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North Carolina Historical Review
(NoCar F251 .N892), Vol. 65 Issue 3, July 1988,
p287-313 , il, por, map, f
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21525
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This article looks at the establishment of the first state normal school for African American teachers founded in Fayetteville using two thousand dollars authorized by the North Carolina legislature. The legislature chose Fayetteville after a strong lobbying effort by the African Methodist Episcopal Zion bishop and other community leaders as well as recognition of great educational activity by black Fayetteville citizens between 1865 and 1877 and the strong educational tradition that stretched to the clandestine schooling of slaves in Fayetteville's urban areas in the 1820s. This background supported the establishment of primary and secondary schools, as well as the normal school, which became Fayetteville State University in 1969.
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North Carolina Historical Review
(NoCar F251 .N892), Vol. 74 Issue 2, Apr 1997,
p135-160, il, por
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21526
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In 1835, the North Carolina state legislature revised the state constitution to abolish the county basis for legislative representation. This allowed the legislature to review petitions for the formation of new counties without having to increase the number of General Assembly seats. Through this legislation, several new western counties were created, but by the 1850s this had stopped because of fears the sectional balance of the state would be disrupted.
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North Carolina Historical Review
(NoCar F251 .N892), Vol. 65 Issue 3, July 1988,
p314-354 , por, map, f
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21527
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This article examines North Carolina's experience with the Rosenwald Schools, using Mecklenburg County as the case study. Rosenwald Schools were an educational system for Southern black children who were excluded from white schools. Founded in the 1910s by Booker T. Washington and philanthropist Julius Rosenwald, the schools were a limited success. Over 5,300 schools were constructed throughout the South and Mecklenburg County had 26. By the 1930s though, the Rosenwald Foundation admitted that the schools were not accomplishing the desired effect of educating blacks to live in a white-dominated society. The foundation then stopped funding the schools in order to promote black and white cooperation through other methods.
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North Carolina Historical Review
(NoCar F251 .N892), Vol. 65 Issue 4, Oct 1988,
p387-444 , il, por, map, f
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21528
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In 1937, William Hayes Ackland approached Duke University and offered to endow an art museum. To receive the endowment, Ackland stipulated that his body, preserved in a sarcophagus must be kept in the museum. This requirement was received by Duke president William P. Few, who negotiated the agreement with Ackland. After both Few and Ackland died in 1940, Duke Trustees decided to back out of the agreement, to the dismay of prominent alumni. As a result of that decision the generous endowment with to the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill instead.
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North Carolina Historical Review
(NoCar F251 .N892), Vol. 65 Issue 4, Oct 1988,
p445-468 , il, por, map, f
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21529
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With the continued issue of county division politics in antebellum North Carolina, many voters abandoned their party when candidates took a stand to which they were opposed. Concurrently, a politician seized on this disunion by casting aspersion on opponents, allowing for many political upsets. This allow expands on the history of county divisions by providing insight into how grassroots issues can alter political structures.
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North Carolina Historical Review
(NoCar F251 .N892), Vol. 65 Issue 4, Oct 1988,
p468-491 , il, por, map, f
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21530
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This article looks at the career and businesses of James Sprunt, a prominent Wilmington civic leader and merchant who, between the mid-1870s and 1900, transformed his firm, Sprunt and Son, from a small trader in naval stores to the nation's largest exporter of cotton to Europe. Sprunt was appointed as North Carolina's representative to the British vice-consulate between 1884 and 1915, and then occupied an equivalent post with the German vice-consulate from 1908 to 1911. Sprunt's business ties to Germany were distasteful to the English, and Sprunt eventually was forced to resign his vice-consular post.
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North Carolina Historical Review
(NoCar F251 .N892), Vol. 74 Issue 2, Apr 1997,
p161-181, il, por, f
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