Exploring the History, Literature, and Culture of the Tar Heel State
“…I was lecturing in North Carolina when your letter arrived — which reminds me that some of the Negro leaders in Greensboro… are so timid that they are not accepting as fast the new responsibilities of freedom as they might, which of course they rationalize as the sole fault of white people. Fortunately, this is not true of all…. ”
— From a letter to a reader by Ralph Ellison, author of “Invisible Man,” on March 31, 1953. Quoted in “Letters from Black America” by Pamela Newkirk (2009)
Instead of (or in addition to) lamenting the shrunkenness of your Sunday paper, check out these digital destinations:
— Who knew that Charlotte as recently as 1931 was home to a post of the Grand Army of the Republic?
— Harper Lee, Margaret Mitchell, Ralph Ellison… Jim Ross.
— Can’t see the Capitol for the trees? Here’s why.
— Preliminary pruning reduces North Carolina’s Civil War death toll to 36,000 tops.
— “Did German U-boat sailors see a movie in Southport during World War II?”
— Charlotte’s role in Solomon Burke’s “Everybody Needs Somebody to Love.”