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Episodes from "African-American History from 1863 to the Present," University of North Carolina at Pembroke (Fall 2009): 1 through 10 of 16

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  1. Land for African American Schools
    date July 4, 1912map New Hanover, North Carolinatags Education, african americans

    “After a lengthy and at times acrimonious debate, the House today passed a bill conveying to the board of education of New Hanover County, N.C., thirty-four acres of land in the city of Wilmington for the erection of an industrial school for Negroes,” reported the Raleigh News and Observer. African Americans in the early twentieth century faced poverty, joblessness, poor housing, unequal justice,...

  2. No Blacks in New County Jury Lists
    date July 12, 1935map Richmond, North Carolinatags African-Americans, Law, Juries

    “Negroes have not served on juries in North Carolina since the White Supremacy Campaign in 1898,” noted the Richmond County Journal.  Yet In 1935, commissioners faced a decision of the United States Supreme Court that African Americans could not be systematically excluded from jury lists. African Americans were excluded anyway. The Richmond County Journal stated that the Register of Deeds, Mr.Battley,...

  3. State Begins to Hire More Black Workers
    date October 2, 1968map Cumberland, North Carolinatags african americans, employment

    On October 2, 1968, the North Carolina Good Neighbor Council submitted a survey to Raleigh demonstrating that blacks were being hired for more positions within the state government. That rise came over the previous two years. There were still state agencies that are all white, but those agencies did not include education, health or hospitals. “The study showed that 38 percent of the blacks employed...

  4. Penders Advertisment
    date December 20, 1933map Wake, North Carolinatags African American Women, employment, African-Americans

    The Pender’s grocery advertisement from the Raleigh Observer depicted a wealthy and very happy white family enjoying a lovely Christmas dinner. The family is being served dinner by a maid, that also appeared to be in a good mood in the advertisement. This advertisement was an illustration of the menial work black women had to do in the 1930s. Domestic jobs were usually the most common types of work...

  5. Student Demonstrations at Fayetteville State University
    date April, 1968 to 1968map Cumberland, North Carolinatags African-Americans, Education, Protest

    The Raleigh Observer reported that by April 1968 the students at Fayetteville State University were outraged due to the lack luster condition of their campus. A small group of students seized control of the administration building and phone systems on Thursday. The students were all male upperclassmen. Dr. Jones, the college president was the first to discover the students and speak with them. According...

  6. The Ford Company
    date July 8, 1935map Cumberland, North Carolinatags Fordism, Ford Company

    The new Ford engine gave drivers the “Power To Go And Power To Stop,” proclaimed the Fayetteville Observer.  This was a slogan for the Ford Company in July 1935.  The advertisement in the Fayetteville Observer promoted the performance of the Ford V-8 engine.  “The Ford thus gives you double safety.  The way it drives helps you to avoid danger.  The way it is built provides unusual protection...

  7. Man's Heart Transcends Apartheid
    date January 4, 1968map Durham, North Carolinatags South Africans, Apartheid, Civil Rights

    In South Africa, the walls of apartheid were about to be transcended by the loss of a young “cape colored” in January 1968. Young Clive Haupt was a “colored” of South Africa who died at the age of 24; while his death was tragic; it had also achieved something, though it was small. While Clive was dead, his heart was to be given to Dr. Phillip Blaiberg, a white South African man. Though this...

  8. Black Men in Baseball
    date April 10, 1935map Wilson, North Carolinatags African-Americans, Segregation, Baseball

    A pair of “big league” Negro baseball teams, the Homestead Grays of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and the Newark, New Jersey, Dodgers played in Wilson, North Carolina, in 1935.  The teams were members of the Negro National League.  Buck Leonard, a Rocky Mount, N.C. native, was first baseman and captain of the Grays.  Leonard stated, “this league is the only way for ‘us’ to play baseball. ...

  9. A Tax Outrage
    date February 12, 1878map WAKE, North Carolinatags taxes, Economy

    “We have paid an insane tax to the government says the North and East.  We of the West and the South have complained true, but not unreasonably, our burdens are heavier than we can bear, heavier than we ought to bear, or than we will bear.”  The northern and southern parts of the state debated tax policy during an 1878 session of the state legislature in Raleigh, North Carolina.  Both sides...

  10. "More Negroes Being Hired"
    date October 2, 1968map Wake, North Carolinatags Black Labor, African American jobs

    The North Carolina Good Neighbor Council, according to the Rockingham Daily Journal, indicate that by 1968, more African Americans were finding jobs in North Carolina State Government than ever before. The jobs of interest were in education, health, or hospitals, while fields not associated with education, health, or hospitals were still filled with white employees.  A survey was preformed to indicate...

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