Throughout its history, the state has had a reputation as a progressive force. This book offers both an assessment and an examination of the realities of the state's leadership.
Reconsidering Key's evaluation nearly sixty years later, contributors to this volume find North Carolina losing ground as a progressive leader in the South.
Edmonds gives a detailed and accurate record of the political careers of prominent North Carolina blacks who held federal, state, county, and municipal offices.
Party Politics in North Carolina, 1835-1860
See Nags Head inlet Robeson County, 1 5 9 Rockingham County, 246, 258 Rogers, Sion H., 352 (n. ... Shepard, William B.: seeks Whig nomination for U.S. Senate (1840), 1 12-13, 1 14, 214; attacks legislative caucus, 112-13, 160; ...
The New Deal poured millions of dollars into North Carolina, improved tobacco prices, and brought the state substantial uplift through public works projects. Yet by the end of the decade...
In this new paperback edition, Christensen provides updated coverage of recent changes in North Carolina's political landscape, including the scandals surrounding John Edwards and Mike Easley, the defeat of U.S. senator Elizabeth Dole, the ...
At the core of Making Race, Making Power is an insightful dissection of the concrete connections between political strategies of solidarity and exclusion and underlying patterns of race relations.
The convention began in the Goldsboro town hall , with William Smith O'Brien Robinson , a twenty - nine - yearold lawyer and the son of Irish immigrants , as chairman . Robinson and George T. Wassom , the black chairman of the county ...
Making of a Southern Democracy: North Carolina Politics from Kerr Scott to Pat McCrory