This page features resources related to African Americans in North Carolina during the 21st century. Researchers will find documents pertaining to civil rights, education, health, and society and family. Subject terms, alternate titles, and significant dates within the publication are included under each resource description.
Ijames, Earl. Digitization of North Carolina USCT Roster: a Lecture by Earl Ijames and Rhonda Jones, 2009.
This is a recorded presentation given by Earl Ijames of the North Carolina Museum of History regarding the digitization of records that showcase the history of African American involvement during the Civil War and the Reconstruction Era.
Subjects: Early 21st Century, Relationship with Whites, War, Military Action and Service, Society and Family Life, Manumission and Free Rights
Dorosin, Mark, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Center for Civil Rights, and Z. Smith Reynolds Foundation. Comprehensive Analysis of the History, Educational Impacts and Legal Implications of Maintaining Three Separate School Districts in Halifax County, NC 2011: Executive Summary, 2011.
This document contains a report which gives an overview of education in Halifax County, North Carolina. The study looks at the organization of the school district, as well as explores the fairness of the way the system treated different races.
Subjects: Early 21st Century, Education, Society and Family Life, Civil Rights, Legal
Alternate Titles: Unless Our Children Begin to Learn Together: the State of Education in Halifax County, NC; State of Education in Halifax County, NC
Bryan, Sarah and Beverly Patterson. African American music trails of eastern North Carolina, 2013.
Includes information about the talented musicians, as well as a CD to hear the recordings of Funk and Jazz
Subjects: African Americans, Music, Popular Music, Folk Music, Gospel Music, Jazz, Rhythm and Blues Music, Rap, Blues
Cathey, Boyd D. Legacy Preserved: North Carolina's Local Records Education Assistance Program, 1996-1999, 2000.
This document contains an overview of the work undertaken by the Local Records Education Assistance Program in North Carolina. This includes summaries of projects that were geared specifically towards the preservation of African American history and records, and using Historically Black Colleges and Universities.
Subjects: Early 21st Century, Education, Public Institutions and Services, Society and Family Life
Edwards, Jessica M. and Paul A. Buescher. Cervical Cancer Disparities Between African-American Women and White Women in North Carolina, 1995-1998, 2002.
This document contains a study that examines the differences in the way that African American women and white women experience the diagnosis and treatment of cervical cancer. The statistics include comparisons of incidence and mortality rates, as well as an analysis of the stage at which the diagnosis was made.
Subjects: Early 21st Century, Health, Society and Family Life
Butler, Sana. Sugar of the Crop, 2009.
This is a recorded presentation given by Sana Butler describing her research for her book, Sugar of the Crop, in which she interviewed the children of enslaved people to determine the post-Civil War family structure of African Americans.
Subjects: Early 21st Century, Society and Family Life, Relationship with Whites, Manumission and Free Rights
North Carolina, African American Heritage Commission. Envisioning the Future of North Carolina's African American Heritage, 2011.
This document gives an overview of the work of the North Carolina African American Heritage Commission. It explains and discusses the work they have already undertaken, as well as their plans for the future.
Subjects: Early 21st Century, Society and Family Life, Public Institutions and Services