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Crossing the Line - Women's Interracial Activism in South Carolina during and after World War II - Cherisse Jones-Branch

Crossing the Line - Women's Interracial Activism in South Carolina during and after World War II - Cherisse Jones-Branch

Although they were accustomed to a segregated society, many women in South Carolina--both black and white, both individually and collectively--worked to change their state's unequal racial status quo. In this volume, Cherisse Jones-Branch explores the early activism of black women in organizations including the NAACP, the South Carolina Progressive Democratic Party, and the South Carolina Federation of Colored Women's Clubs. At the same time, she discusses the involvement of white women in such groups..

DKK 279.95
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Race, Place, and Memory - Deep Currents in Wilmington, North Carolina - Margaret M. Mulrooney

Race, Place, and Memory - Deep Currents in Wilmington, North Carolina - Margaret M. Mulrooney

A revealing work of public history that shows how communities remember their pasts to fit specific narratives, this book charts the ebb and flow of racial tension in Wilmington, North Carolina, from the 1730s to the present. Margaret Mulrooney argues that while the city has celebrated its white colonial revolutionary origins, it has ignored the revolutionary acts of its African American citizens.

DKK 1155.95
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Black Manhood and Community Building in North Carolina, 1900-1930 - Angela Hornsby Gutting

Black Manhood and Community Building in North Carolina, 1900-1930 - Angela Hornsby Gutting

> \Hornsby-Gutting's examination of the involvement of black men in the institutional life of their turn-of-the-century North Carolina communities expands our understanding of gendered activism in the Jim Crow South.\--Beverly G. Bond, University of Memphis Historical treatments of race during the early twentieth century have generally focused on black women's activism. Leading books about the disenfranchisement era hint that black men withdrew from positions of community leadership until later..

DKK 298.95
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Stinking Stones and Rocks of Gold - Phosphate, Fertilizer, and Industrialization in Postbellum South Carolina - Shepherd W. McKinley

Stinking Stones and Rocks of Gold - Phosphate, Fertilizer, and Industrialization in Postbellum South Carolina - Shepherd W. McKinley

In the first book ever written about the impact of phosphate mining on the South Carolina plantation economy, Shepherd McKinley explains how the convergence of the phosphate and fertilizer industries carried long-term impacts for America and the South. This top-down, bottom-up history analyses an alternative path for all peoples in the post-emancipation South.

DKK 298.95
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The Having of Negroes Is Become a Burden - The Quaker Struggle to Free Slaves in Revolutionary North Carolina - Michael J. Crawford

The Having of Negroes Is Become a Burden - The Quaker Struggle to Free Slaves in Revolutionary North Carolina - Michael J. Crawford

Presents the compelling story of colonial manumission movements among North Carolina Quakers in this illuminating volume. Embedding complete primary documents within the context of his own interpretive analysis, Michael Crawford effectively shows how the consequences of this group's antislavery activism radiated out from a few individuals to the region, the state, and, eventually, the nation.

DKK 263.95
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Woody Ornamentals for Deep South Gardens - David J. Rogers

Woody Ornamentals for Deep South Gardens - David J. Rogers

No other book offers such complete information about trees, shrubs, woody vines, and ground covers for USDA Zone 8, an area that begins at the Texas-Mexico border and cuts a wide swath across the Deep South to include Louisiana, southern Arkansas, the southern halves of Mississippi, Alabama, Georgia, and South Carolina, the Florida Panhandle and north-central Florida, and parts of coastal North Carolina and Virginia. It includes all areas with an average minimum temperature between ten and twenty..

DKK 273.95
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A Desolate Place for a Defiant People - The Archaeology of Maroons, Indigenous Americans, and Enslaved Laborers in the Great Dismal Swamp - Daniel O.

A Desolate Place for a Defiant People - The Archaeology of Maroons, Indigenous Americans, and Enslaved Laborers in the Great Dismal Swamp - Daniel O.

In the 250 years before the Civil War, the Great Dismal Swamp of Virginia and North Carolina was a brutal landscape. It was also a protective refuge for marginalized individuals. In the first thorough archaeological examination of this unique region, Daniel Sayers exposes and unravels the complex social and economic systems developed by these defiant communities that thrived on the periphery.

DKK 328.95
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A Desolate Place for a Defiant People - Daniel Sayers

A Desolate Place for a Defiant People - Daniel Sayers

In the 250 years before the US Civil War, the Great Dismal Swamp of Virginia and North Carolina was a brutal landscape. It was also a protective refuge for marginalised communities, including Native Americans, African-American maroons, free African Americans, and outcast Europeans. Daniel Sayers examines the area's archaeological record, exposing and unravelling the complex social and economic systems developed by these defiant communities that thrived on the periphery.

DKK 1033.95
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The Stroessner Regime and Indigenous Resistance in Paraguay - Rene Harder Horst

The Stroessner Regime and Indigenous Resistance in Paraguay - Rene Harder Horst

\Engaged, nuanced, and accessible--this untold story of Paraguay's indigenous peoples constitutes an important addition to the English-language literature on this understudied country.\--John Charles Chasteen, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill \Provides original insights into the makings of indigenous policy during Paraguay's Stroessner era and the democratic opening after 1989 . . . shows how state policies were buffeted by external actors but also how indigenous peoples fought back...

DKK 328.95
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God's Fields - Landscape, Religion, and Race in Moravian Wachovia - Leland Ferguson

God's Fields - Landscape, Religion, and Race in Moravian Wachovia - Leland Ferguson

\Provides a fascinating and nuanced study of the transformations in religious and social ideals among Moravians as they worked to implement their aspirations in the harsh realities of a North Carolina landscape shaped by racism. Ferguson reveals the intersecting dynamics of religious aspirations, sectarian prejudices, conflicting designs across cultural landscapes, paradoxical divergences of religious ideals and social realities, and the life stories of African Americans working to navigate such..

DKK 288.95
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Bridging Race Divides - Black Nationalism, Feminism, and Integration in the United States, 1896-1935 - Kate Dossett

Bridging Race Divides - Black Nationalism, Feminism, and Integration in the United States, 1896-1935 - Kate Dossett

\Bridging Race Divides breaks new ground in African American and women's history by challenging assumptions about African American women's relationship to black nationalist movements in the United States\--Sarah Judson, University of North Carolina, AshevilleHigh-profile rivalries between black male leaders in the early twentieth century have contributed to the view that integrationism and black nationalism were diametrically opposed philosophies shaped primarily by men. Bridging Race Divides challenges..

DKK 320.95
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Southern Ladies, New Women: Race, Region, And Clubwomen In South Carol 1890-1930 - Joan Marie Johnson

Southern Ladies, New Women: Race, Region, And Clubwomen In South Carol 1890-1930 - Joan Marie Johnson

Joan Marie Johnson investigates how the desire to create a distinctive southern identity influenced black and white clubwomen at the turn of the 20th century and motivated their participation in efforts at social reform. Often doing similar work for different reasons, both groups emphasized history, memory, and education. Focusing particularly on South Carolina clubs, \Southern Ladies, New Women shows that white women promoted a culture of segregation in which southern equaled white and black equaled..

DKK 288.95
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T. Thomas Fortune, the Afro-American Agitator - A Collection of Writings, 1880-1928

T. Thomas Fortune, the Afro-American Agitator - A Collection of Writings, 1880-1928

\Alexander's important documentary edition restores T. Thomas Fortune's central place in African American thought and activism during the age of Jim Crow. His well-executed edition is essential for all college, university, and public library collections.\--John David Smith, University of North Carolina, Charlotte \Fortune is one of the most significant figures in American history, not just African American history. Alexander has created a reader that permits all of us to hear from one of the most..

DKK 333.95
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