| David
Cecelski (Ph.D., Harvard) is an independent historian and
writer who has taught at Duke University, UNC at Chapel
Hill, and East Carolina University. A native of Craven County,
he is the author of Along Freedom Road: Hyde County, North
Carolina, and the Fate of Black Schools in the South; A
Historians Coast: Adventures Into the Tidewater Past; Waterman's
Song: Slavery and Freedom in the Maritime South, as well
as co-editor of Democracy Betrayed: The Wilmington Race
Riot of 1898 and Its Legacy and William Singleton's Recollections
of My Slavery Days.
"People
That Do Right": The Civil Rights Movement in North
Carolina
In this presentation, Dr. Cecelski draws on stories of the
civil rights movement in eastern North Carolina between
World War II and roughly 1975. This lecture is based on
historical research from Dr. Cecelski's first book, Along
Freedom Road, and from his popular oral history series,
"Listening to History," that is published monthly
in the Raleigh News and Observer.
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