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Category Archives: Events
Soul City Film Screening Tonight on UNC-TV
Soul City (Warren Co., NC) was established as a planned community in 1970s under the direction of civil rights leader Floyd B. McKissick. Disenchanted with the systemic suppression, poverty, and racism typical after migration to northern urban centers, he envisioned … Continue reading
Posted in African American, Events, In the News, Southern Oral History Program
Tagged activism, African American, civil rights, community development, Documenting the American South, Floyd McKissick, North Carolina, Soul City, Southern Historical Collection, Southern Oral History Program, Warren County
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October Has Come Again: Southern Literary Symposium
October 30 @ 2:00 pm – 4:30 pm Hill Ballroom, Carolina Inn, Chapel Hill, NC In his 1935 novel Of Time and the River, Thomas Wolfe wrote, “October had come again, and he would lie there in his mother’s house … Continue reading
A Visit Home for the Meck Dec
Library lore says that Carolyn Wallace, Director of the Southern Historical Collection from 1975-1987, once declared that the Mecklenburg Declaration of Independence was the single most valuable item in our entire collection. It is thus no surprise that we have … Continue reading
Posted in Digital SHC, Events, Exhibitions, In the News, Links, Politics, Revolutionary War
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Have You Heard of the Montford Point Marines?
On Saturday, August 1, 2015, I had the honor of attending a ceremony for the presentation of the Congressional Gold Medal to the family of Sgt. James Andrew Felton (1919-1994), a Montford Point Marine. The Congressional Gold Medal is the highest civilian … Continue reading
J. Eugene Grigsby, Jr.: Artist and Teacher
Guest Poster: SHC Student Worker, James A. Moore (UNC Class of 2015) We here at the Southern Historical Collection are ecstatic to announce the opening of a new art exhibition in the library at the Sonja Haynes Stone Center. The exhibit, … Continue reading