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For many years North Carolinians had led separate lives in public activities, public schools, and sporting events, based on whether they were white, African American, or Native American. For many Native American communities in Robeson County and elsewhere, segregation in sporting events would end in 1967. Brayboy discusses what basketball was like before integration.
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What do all the words in the title have in common? They are official state symbols. Pierce relates how a grassroots movement by Lake Norman Elementary School in Mooresville resulted in the NC General Assembly passing and Governor Beverly Perdue signing a law making stock car racing a state symbol. Why? Many sports played in the state originated elsewhere, but stock car racing has the deepest historical connection to the sport than any other state.
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In Gastonia, the year 1967 brought an end to school segregation and the merger of historically black Highland High School with all-white Ashley High School. Grundy relates how basketball players from the two schools overcame their differences, worked together, shared skills and ideas, and went on to win the 4A state basketball championship.
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Grundy discusses how attitudes and values of a community determined the type of uniforms girls wore while playing basketball.
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Seaman recounts the reasons for and the results of the violent and rebellious attempt by Native Americans living in Eastern North Carolina in 1711 to regain their independence. This period is known as the Tuscarora War.
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17274
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It may seem strange today, but North Carolina often got ignored during the colonial period. But once North Carolina got really going, it became an impressive place for development.
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Wood discusses how North Carolina developed from a fledgling spot on the British Empire map to a powerful colonial state.
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17277
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Chased out of the Caribbean and Charles Town, South Carolina, autumn 1718, the dreaded buccaneer Blackbeard and his fleet needed a safe haven. They found one in the friendly Outer Banks of North Carolina. But authorities hunting pirates knew where to find them and other pirates and renegades.
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Religion played an important role from the beginning of European exploration and settlement in the New World. Early North Carolina experienced constant tension, though, over religion. In the 1700s the colony developed as an independent place, mostly tolerant of different faiths but ministers and missionaries to the North Carolina colony found spreading religion difficult.
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Among the most important businesses in early America was the ordinary, also called a tavern, a public house of entertainment, or an inn.
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11.The Miller and His Mill by Powell, Ainsley Tar Heel Junior Historian Vol. 51 Issue 2, Spring 2012
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The mill tells an important story about colonial life and the colonial economy. Colonial mills in the Mountain and Piedmont regions used the energy from water, and wind usually powered the Coastal Plain mills' machinery. These mills were usually grist or sawmills.
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The German religious immigrants known as the Moravians, settled in North Carolina in and around what is now the city of Winston-Salem. Although some groups struggled with the institution of slavery, the Moravians took enslaved Africans and baptized them into the church, allowing them to work, live, and worship together in close quarters.
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Just outside Burlington, you can visit the Alamance Battleground State Historic Site. There, North Carolina governor William Tryon and his soldiers defeated a group of reform-minded farmers known as the Regulators in 1771.
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18371
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As the 1800s began North Carolina and its neighbors faced continuing conflict including confusion over geographic boundaries, war with Great Britain and Mexico, where North Carolinians played active roles in compromise.
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18373
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Today, it is difficult to imagine the North Carolina coast in danger from a foreign nation, but during the 1800s the coastline was at threat to naval attack from European nations and the U.S. navy during the Civil War. The North Carolina coast thus featured several fort systems along the coast.
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