RELATED EVENTS
Celebrate North Carolina: Turning Points in African American History
Saturday, May 22
10:00-11:15 a.m. At 9:30 a.m. coffee and doughnuts will be available.
During this panel discussion, Dr. Tyson will center on the 1898 Wilmington Race Riot, Dr. Hildebrand will discuss the impact of the Civil War on African Americans in North Carolina, and Dr. Kelley will focus on the Civil Rights movement. Dr. Jeffrey J. Crow, Deputy Secretary, N.C. Office of Archives and History, Department of Cultural Resources, will serve as moderator.
Information about each panelist follows.
Dr. Timothy B. Tyson, Senior Research Scholar, Center for Documentary Studies at Duke University, and Visiting Professor of American Christianity and Southern Culture, Duke Divinity School. Tyson is the author of Blood Done Sign My Name, which was recently released as a motion picture.
Dr. Reginald F. Hildebrand, Associate Professor, Department of African and Afro-American Studies, UNC-Chapel Hill.
Dr. Blair LM Kelley, Associate Professor, Department of History, N.C. State University.
Kelley's recent book Right to Ride (UNC Press, 2010) examines the earliest struggles against Jim Crow laws across the South, when ordinary men and women risked lynching and race riots to contest the segregation laws that divided trains and streetcars by race.
2nd Saturdays: Juneteenth
Saturday, June 12
12 noon-4 p.m. (drop-in program)
Get ready to celebrate Juneteenth by making a woven paper basket, and watch artists Jonathan Daniel and Bill Newman demonstrate weaving. Learn more about this holiday proclaiming the end of slavery in the United States. The program is part of the 2nd Saturdays series, which features arts, heritage, food and fun at 37 state historic sites and museums. Visit www.ncculture.com.
Music of the Carolinas: Gospel Jubilators
Sunday, June 13
3-4 p.m.
This all-male vocal group performs a cappella music with rare purity and soul, highlighting vocal traditions of the golden age of 1930s and 1940s gospel. PineCone co-sponsors the performance.
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