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43625
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The first student drawn cartoons at what is now UNC-Chapel Hill appeared in student publications like the "Yackety Yack" and "Carolina Coll Weevil".
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43626
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Dr. John Cockman and his family have a long history with the love of music. As a professor of physics at Appalachian State University in Boone, Dr. Cockman spends much of his time instructing students and playing bluegrass music with his wife and six children. During the summer, John and his family even teach local friends and students the art of playing guitar, fiddling, singing and dancing for free.
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Richard Yarborough relives his most memorable moments with his aunt, Caterina Jarboro. Caterina was a famed opera star throughout the late 1920s and 1930s, becoming "the first Black woman to be featured in a White opera company in the United States."
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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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43999
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In 1775, Governor Dunmore of Virginia offered freedom to African Americans enslaved by Patriots if they would serve the British Army. An estimated 3,000 Black men, women and children fled North Carolina with the British to Canad during the conflict. Another 5,000 Black men chose to fight with the American army. Some like Ned Griffen were compensated but others struggled to gain the respect they deserved, particularly in later years as southern states tightened restrictions on free and enslaved persons.
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44000
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Federalists believed the United States would fail without a stronger central government and supported ratification and adoption of the Constitution. Perhaps nowhere in the new nation was the battle between Federalists and Anti-Federalists more contested than in North Carolina. Initially the state voted in Hillsborough in 1788 not to ratify the document but at the same time did not reject it. Another convention in Fayetteville in 1789 eventually succeeded when protections argued by the Anti-Federalists were met with amendments to the Constitution.
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43997
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the author makes the case that as the reality of an American Revolution became clear, North Carolinians of all persuasions reckoned and decided as to how they would move forward based on their own situations. for example, the Cherokee were irritated with colonists encroachment on their lands, or they sided with Great Britain as well as western North Carolinian who believed those in the eastern part of the colony that controlled the local government were far worse than Parliament or the king.
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Some of the greatest concentrations of Loyalists in North Carolina were centered around Wilmington and the coastal regions. Another contingent was located in the back-country, including a band headed by the feared commander David Fanning.
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Flora McDonald had celebrity status with Highland Scots in North Carolina when she moved to the colony in the early 1770s. Her stay, however, was brief, when her family chose to support England over the patriot cause. She left North Carolina for good in 1779.
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Built on land seized by the Union army during the Civil War, James City, named for Horace James, developed as a significant community inhabited by former enslaved persons after the war. Despite building business, homes and paying taxes, the original owner, James A. Bryan of New Bern, sued and won to retrieve the property. In April 1893, Gov. Carr traveled from Raleigh with the state militia to enforce the eviction of residents. In the end a compromise was reached, whereby residents would pay rents to Bryan.
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A political showdown between North Carolina Republican Governor William Woods Holden and the KKK, the Kirk-Holden War developed after the assassinations of an African American town council member in Alamance County and Republican state senator John W. Stephens in the Caswell County Courthouse. Holden's decision to send out the militia ultimately framed his impeachment in 1871.
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After the close of the Civil War, Congress passed several reconstruction acts that specified those things southern states must do before being readmitted to the Union. One of the requirements was adoption of a new state constitution. A convention to to accomplish this goal opened on January 14, 1868. One of the provisions made in the new constitution was universal male suffrage. Considered very progressive for its time, the new constitution was challenged by conservatives, who termed it the "radical Reconstruction constitution".
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44033
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Several themes will be emphasized in the celebration, including "Visions of Freedom", "Gathering of Voices" and "Common Ground".
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On October 25, 1774, 51 Edenton area women signed a document indicating their resolve to boycott English tea. News of the event ended up in a London newspaper on January 16, 1775. It is considered the first political protest by women in America.
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It is approximated that nearly 200,000 people lived in North Carolina in 1765. Subsistence living with some necessities dependent on mercantile trade generally shaped the life of most of the region's inhabitants.
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