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- Collection: Postwar North Carolina
"The Reconstruction Prospect," November 12, 1867
We have favored the holding of a Convention asauthorized by Congress, and of doing all that couldfairly and honorably be done to effect reconstructionand restore the State to civil government, but we canplainly see that almost a death-blow has been…
"The Rise of the Ku Klux Klan," 1880
We had only proceeded a short distance further on our way, when we were confronted by the charred remains of what had been a dwelling house.
“What’s that?†I asked for the hundredth time, addressing Jones.
“That†said he, “is the…
"The Story Of The Wilmington, North Carolina, Race Riots" Raleigh News and Observer, November 27, 1898
THE STORY OF THE WILMINGTON, NORTH CAROLINA, RACE RIOTS.
By COL. ALFRED M. WADDELL.
Leader in the Reform Movement and Now Revolutionary Mayor of Wilmington.
(Special Correspondence of Collier’s Weekly.)
My active connection with what has been…
"The Supplementary Bill," March 28, 1867
I have considered the bill entitled “An act supplementary to an act entitled ‘An act to provide for the more efficient government of the rebel states passed March 2, 1867, and to facilitate restoration,’†and now return it to the House of…
Tags: congress, johnson, reconstruction, State Government
"THE TRIAL OF THE GOVERNMENT," May 26, 1866
IT seems to us they greatly mistake the tem-
per of the loyal majority of the American
people who suppose that because there are dif-
ferences among them upon certain points of
policy, they will, therefore, from sheer impa-
tience, grow careless…
Tags: reconstruction, Republican, States' Rights, Suffrage
"The Vampire that Hovers Over North Carolina (Negro Rule)," News and Observer, September 27, 1898
Negro Rule
The Vampire That Hovers Over North Carolina
Tags: Race relations, State Government, Suffrage
"The Wilmington Race Riot of 1898." Colonel Thomas W. Clawson August 24, 1898
Tags: Free Blacks, Freedpeople, Race relations, Racism
"The Winston Situation," Raleigh News and Observer, July 13, 1900
The Winston Situation Holton & Co., has a Democratic Registrar arrested by a Federal Deputy Marshal because he will not register negro boys.
Tags: Race relations, State Government, Suffrage
"These Three Have Met Again," Raleigh News and Observer, May 24, 1900
These Three Have Met Again
Tags: Race relations, State Politics, Suffrage
"Trent River Settlement," June 9, 1866
GENERAL STEEDMAN’S TOUR. Our artist, Mr. Davis, gives the following description of illustrations on page 361: “The Inspection Tour of Generals Steedman and Fullerton has certainly had one good result, the removal from authority of a…
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Benjamin Sherwood Hedrick, 1827-1886

Benjamin Hedrick (1827-1886), a chemistry professor at UNC, was dismissed from his job in 1856 after openly claiming that he supported the Republican…