K-12 Resources for Teaching About the American South
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Lumbee Fight for Justice: the Battle of Hayes Pond in Maxton, NC
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Affrilachia
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Durham’s Hayti Community: Urban Renewal or Urban Removal?
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A Red Record
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“Stealing a Little Freedom”: Enslaved Runaways in North Carolina
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Exploring Life in 1898 Wilmington & the Wilmington Coup with CROW, a novel for young adults
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Talkin' Tar Heel: How Our Voices Tell the Story of North Carolina
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Journey of Reconciliation, 1947
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Women's Rights & the NC Constitution
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Teaching Guide forRemarkable Journey: Founding the Asian Indian Community in North Carolina
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Unboxing Henry “Box” Brown
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Women's Suffrage
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Poor Power: The North Carolina Fund and the Battle to End Poverty & Inequality in 1960s America
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The Salisbury Bread Riot
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The Influence & Impactof Historically Black Colleges and Universities on the Civil Rights Movement
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Unsung Women of the Civil Rights Movement
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The Tuskegee Syphilis Experiment
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The Freedom Rides of 1961
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Learning About Latinx Immigration in North Carolina with“A Home on the Field”
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Freedom Songs
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The Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave
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American Abolitionists
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Against All Odds:The African American Founding of Princeville, North Carolina
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Female Spies in the Civil War
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As the War Turns: Exploring the Drama of the Civil War
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African Folk Tales: Resistance, Hope and Freedom
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Plessy v. Ferguson & the Roots of Segregation
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Elizabeth Keckly: From Slavery to Celebrity
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Five Pillars of Islam: Practice, Survival, Resistance and Adaption from Africa to the Americas
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Seeking Historical Detectives to Discover Who Was John Brown
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The Editor and the Dragon: How Horace Carter Fought the KKK in North Carolina
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Exploring African American Leadership & Service in North Carolina
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Governor Holden & The Kirk-Holden War
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Pauli Murray: Civil & Women's Rights Trailblazer
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Prohibition, Bootlegging, & the Origins of NASCAR
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Religion in the American South
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Five Pillars of Islam: Practice, Survival, Resistance and Adaption from Africa to the Americas
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The Loray Mill Strike & Ella Mae Wiggins
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North Carolina’s Settlements of Freedmen During the Civil War: The Roanoke Island Freedmen’s Colony and the Trent River Settlement
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Ida B. Wells and Her Light of Truth
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Surviving and Thriving Despite Jim Crow: Durham’s “Black Wall Street”
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1The 1898 Coup in Wilmington, NC
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Exploring Islam in North Carolina
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African American Troops in the Civil War
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Against Their Will: North Carolina’s Eugenics Program & In re Moore
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Exploring the Hypocrisy of American Slavery with Frederick Douglass "What to the Slave is the Fourth of July?"
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"Our Story is Told Through Our Plates": Southern Foodways
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George Henry White: The American Phoenix
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Tales and Trails of Betrayal: America’s Indian Removal Policies
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