Embracing critical conversations and creative expressions for a diverse and changing South
This semester, SOHP interns Alex Ford, Destinie Pittman, Devin Holman, and Monique Laborde interviewed members of the "Black Pioneers" -- the earliest cohorts of African American students who attended UNC between 1952-1972. On December 9th, the interns will share … Read more
“Free-Market Activists and School Desegregation” Suppose that something long understood as an ending was really a beginning. What if the white South’s massive resistance to the Supreme Court’s 1954 Brown v. Board of Education decision proved to be not just the … Read more
Mishio Yamanaka, a PhD candidate in UNC's Department of History and the 2017-18 McColl Fellow, will show how Creoles of color in New Orleans achieved the partial desegregation of public schools during Reconstruction and resisted resegregation in 1877. In her … Read more