This page gathers resources in NCpedia that cover the history and heritage of African Americans in North Carolina from the colonial era to the present day. It does not include all resources in NCpedia but rather a selection that covers important topics and events, including: biographies; the art and cultural heritage of African Americans in the state; slavery and the ante-bellum era; the struggle for citizenship and civil rights; business and educational leadership; politics; and historic sites and monuments.

Contents

African American Biographies

Biographies in NCpedia: Link to all entries
African Americans: multi-part entry by historical period

Selected Historic Places

African American Dance Ensemble
Bennett College
Charlotte Hawkins Brown Museum
Coleman Manufacturing Company
Durham's Black Wall Street
First Light of Freedom
Greensboro Four Monument
Historically Black Colleges & Universities
James City
Leonard Medical School
Nina Simone Sculpture
Palmer Memorial Institute
Princeville
Richard Etheridge Statue
The Freedmen's Colony on Roanoke Island
Schools for freed peoples
Shaw University
Young Men's Institute

History of African American Education

A History of Medical Teaching in North Carolina
Era of Progress and Promise
Freedmen's Bureau
Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs)
Public Education
Rosenwald Fund
School Desegregation
Schools for Freed Peoples

African American Business History (selected entries)

African Americans: Emerging Roles
Black Freemasonry
Black Wall Street
Coleman Manufacturing Company
Colored Merchants Association
Freedman's Savings and Trust Company
North Carolina Inventors
Mechanics and Farmers Bank
National Negro Business League
North Carolina Mutual Life Insurance Company
Spaulding, Charles Clinton
Wheeler Airlines
KAY, WILLIE VIRGINIA OTEY

Organizations: Civic, Business, Political and Religious

4-H and Home Demostration
African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church
American Missionary Association
Black Panther Party
Commission on Interracial Cooperation
National Association for the Advancement of Colored People
North Carolina Industrial Association
North Carolina Teachers Association
The Pentecostal Holiness Church
Royal Knights of King David

Culture and the Arts (selected entries)

African American Dance Ensemble
African and African American Storytelling
Angelou, Maya
The Arts and Arts Organizations in North Carolina: An Overview
Bearden, Romare
Blues
Buck Dancing
Coltrane, John William
Gospel Music
History of Food
Jazz
Monk, Thelonious
Music History
Simone, Nina
Step Dancing
North Carolina Stories and Storytellers

Law, Segregation and Politics

Constitutional Convention, 1868: Black Caucus
Disfranchisement
Emancipation
Equal Rights League
Exodusters
Fourteenth Amendment
Fusion of Republicans and Populists
Great Migration
Newspapers
School Desegregation
Segregation in the 1920s
Slater Fund
State Parks
Wilmington Race Riot

Civil Rights

African American Civil Rights in North Carolina
Civil Rights Movement
Golden A. Frinks
Greensboro Four
Civil Rights Sit-Ins
Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee
Wilmington Ten

Ante-bellum to Mid-19th Century Era History

African Americans -- multi-part entry by historical period
African Americans and the Revolution
African Americans in Union-Occupied Eastern North Carolina during the Civil War
African Americans: Life Under Slavery
Anti-slavery Movement in North Carolina
Colonization Societies
Contrabands
Dunmore's Ethiopian Regiment
Forced Migration of African Americans
Freedmen's Conventions
General Demographics - Part 5: African American
Great Migration
Slave Clandestine Economy
Slave Codes
Slave Names
Slave Rebellions
Slavery Two Black Classes of Antebellum North Carolina

Educator Resources:

Grade 8: Freedom Rides of 1961. North Carolina Civic Education Consortium. https://k12database.unc.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/31/2012/04/FreedomR...

Grade 8: George Henry White: The American Phoenix. North Carolina Civic Education Consortium.https://k12database.unc.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/31/2013/11/GeorgeHe...

Grade 8: George Moses Horton. North Carolina Civic Education Consortium.https://k12database.unc.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/31/2012/05/GeorgeMo...

Grade 8: Living History: Local Voices of the Civil Rights
 

Movement. North Carolina Civic Education
 

Consortium. https://k12database.unc.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/31/2012/05/LivingHi...

 

Online Documentary Collections and Resources:

The Online Reference Guide to African American History, https://www.blackpast.org

African American Education, North Carolina Digital Collections, https://digital.ncdcr.gov/spotlights/african-american-education-in-north...

Civil Rights, North Carolina Digital Collections, https://digital.ncdcr.gov/collections/civil-rights

African American Newspapers in North Carolina, NC Digital Heritage Center, https://www.digitalnc.org/exhibits/african-american-newspapers-in-nc/

NC Federal of Negro Women's Clubs Collection, NC Central University, NC Digital Heritage Center, https://www.digitalnc.org/exhibits/north-carolina-federation-of-negro-wo...

Heritage of Black Highlanders Collection, UNC-Asheville, NC Digital Heritage Center, https://www.digitalnc.org/exhibits/heritage-of-black-highlanders/

Digital Library on American Slavery, UNC-G, http://dlas.uncg.edu/notices/

History of African American Education in North Carolina, NC Government & Heritage Library, https://statelibrary.ncdcr.libguides.com/north-carolina-african-american...

James E. Shepard Memorial Library, University Archives, Records, and History: https://www.nccu.edu/james-e-shepard-memorial-library/special-collection...

Library of Congress Online Collections related to African American History (online resource): https://www.loc.gov/collections/

Durham County Public Library, North Carolina Collection. African American History Resources (some online): https://durhamcountylibrary.org/location/main-library/the-north-carolina...

African American Documentary Resources at the Southern History Collection, Wilson Libary, UNC-Chapel Hill: https://web.lib.unc.edu/afam/index.html

Historical Resources in Print:

Batchelor, John E. 2015. Race and education in North Carolina: from segregation to desegregation. https://www.worldcat.org/title/908373826

Brown, Hugh Victor. 1964. E-qual-ity education in North Carolina among Negroes. [Raleigh, N.C.]: [Irving-Swain Press]. https://www.worldcat.org/title/1140914

Cecelski, David S. 1994. Along freedom road: Hyde County, North Carolina and the fate of Black schools in the South. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press. https://www.worldcat.org/title/28709728

Crow, Jeffrey J., Paul D. Escott, and Flora J. Hatley Wadelington. 1992. A history of African Americans in North Carolina. Raleigh: N.C. Dept. of Cultural Resources, Division of Archives and History. https://www.worldcat.org/title/27686213

Franklin, John Hope. 1995. The free Negro in North Carolina, 1790-1860. Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press. https://www.worldcat.org/title/32922639

Hornsby-Gutting, Angela. 2009. Black manhood and community building in North Carolina, 1900-1930. Gainesville: University Press of Florida. https://www.worldcat.org/title/226356622

Nieman, Donald G. 1994. African Americans and education in the South, 1865-1900. New York: Garland. https://www.worldcat.org/title/29183201

North Carolina. 2000. The rich heritage of African Americans in North Carolina. Raleigh: North Carolina Division of Tourism, Film and Sports Development. https://www.worldcat.org/title/43573454

Thuesen, Sarah Caroline. 2013. Greater than equal African American struggles for schools and citizenship in North Carolina, 1919-1965. Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press. https://www.worldcat.org/title/864555227

Watson, Alan D. 2005. African Americans in early North Carolina: a documentary history. Raleigh [N.C.]: Office of Archives and History, N.C. Dept. of Cultural Resources. https://www.worldcat.org/title/62488661

Williams, Heather Andrea. 2005. Self-taught: African American education in slavery and freedom. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press. https://www.worldcat.org/title/56794658; State Library of NC catalog: 370.8996073075 W723s 

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