New edition of “A History of African Americans in North Carolina” now available

The North Carolina Department of Cultural Resources announces:

RALEIGH – A new, revised edition of “A History of African Americans in North Carolina” is now available from the Historical Publications Section of the N.C. Office of Archives and History. The volume covers more than 400 years from the colonial period through the early 21st century. Authored by Jeffrey J. Crow, Paul D. Escott and Flora Hatley Wadelington, the title is a fitting Black History Month tribute.


First published in 1992, “A History of African Americans in North Carolina” was the first one volume survey of black history in the state, and covered through the 1990s. A 2002 revised edition included a new chapter examining the expanding political influence of African Africans and the rise of effective black politicians. The latest edition brings the discussion through the historic presidential election of Barack Obama in 2008. It also has a new cover and updated index.

Dr. Jeffrey J. Crow is deputy secretary of the Office of Archives and History in the N.C. Department of Cultural Resources. Dr. Paul D. Escott is Reynolds Professor of History at Wake Forest University. Flora J. Hatley Wadeliington is an assistant professor of history at Shaw University and St. Augustine’s College.

“A History of African Americans in North Carolina” (paperbound; pp.xii, 292; illustrations; index 2011) sells for $21.35, which includes tax and shipping. Order from the Historical Publications Section (PR), Office of Archives and History, 4622 Mail Service Center, Raleigh, NC 27699-4622. For credit card orders, call (919) 733-7442, ext. 0 or visit online http://nc-historical-publications.stores.yahoo.net. The also is available at local bookstores ad Amazon.com.

The Historical Publications Section is part of the N.C. Department of Cultural Resources.

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About Jeff Fobes
As a long-time proponent of media for social change, my early activities included coordinating the creation of a small community FM radio station to serve a poor section of St. Louis, Mo. In the 1980s I served as the editor of the "futurist" newsletter of the U.S. Association for the Club of Rome, a professional/academic group with a global focus and a mandate to act locally. During that time, I was impressed by a journalism experiment in Mississippi, in which a newspaper reporter spent a year in a small town covering how global activities impacted local events (e.g., literacy programs in Asia drove up the price of pulpwood; soybean demand in China impacted local soybean prices). Taking a cue from the Mississippi journalism experiment, I offered to help the local Green Party in western North Carolina start its own newspaper, which published under the name Green Line. Eventually the local party turned Green Line over to me, giving Asheville-area readers an independent, locally focused news source that was driven by global concerns. Over the years the monthly grew, until it morphed into the weekly Mountain Xpress in 1994. I've been its publisher since the beginning. Mountain Xpress' mission is to promote grassroots democracy (of any political persuasion) by serving the area's most active, thoughtful readers. Consider Xpress as an experiment to see if such a media operation can promote a healthy, democratic and wise community. In addition to print, today's rapidly evolving Web technosphere offers a grand opportunity to see how an interactive global information network impacts a local community when the network includes a locally focused media outlet whose aim is promote thoughtful citizen activism. Follow me @fobes

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