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A Missing Mountain Memory: The Marion Manufacturing Mill Strike of 1929
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Author
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Stevens, Megan
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Date Created
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2020
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Subjects--Topical
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History, Modern, History
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Description
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In Marion, North Carolina, the local residents of the city and surrounding region have forgotten a tragic strike that took place at one of the local mills in 1929, though it was possibly the deadliest textile mill strike in the South. The strike, ...
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The Champions of Popular Rights: North Carolina’s Political Reformation, 1850-1862
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Author
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Holt, Bradley
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Date Created
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2021
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Subjects--Topical
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History
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Description
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In the decade before the American Civil War, North Carolina voters embarked on a path to remake state politics and government in a manner beneficial to the non-plantation owning class of white men. Politically educated and mobilized through newspa...
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The South Carolina Black Code and Its Legacy
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Author
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McIntyre, Larry
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Date Created
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2016
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Subjects--Topical
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History
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Description
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In December 1865 the South Carolina State Legislature ratified a series of laws designed to control the social and economic futures of the freedpeople. Informally known as the Black Code, South Carolina’s white leadership claimed these laws protec...
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“WHAT’S PAST IS PROLOGUE”: NORTH CAROLINA’S FORGOTTEN BLACK CODE
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Author
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Warlick, Tommy
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Date Created
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2020
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Subjects--Topical
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History
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Description
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JOHN THOMAS WARLICK, IV. "What’s Past is Prologue": North Carolina’s Forgotten Black Code. (Under the direction of DR. JOHN DAVID SMITH) Between late 1865 and early 1867, after the South’s failure to preserve slavery through armed conflict, lawmak...