Charles N. Hunter and race relations in North Carolina

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Davis Library (5th floor)

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E185.97.H84 H35 1987 c. 2
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E185.97.H84 H35 1987 c. 3
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North Carolina Collection (Wilson Library)

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C970 J28 v. 60 c. 2
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C970 J28 v. 60 c. 3
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C970 J28 v. 60 c. 4
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C970 J28 v. 60 c. 5
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C970 J28 v. 60 c. 6
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North Carolina Collection (Wilson Library) — Cotten

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CC970 J28 v. 60
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Summary

Charles N. Hunter, one of North Carolina's outstanding black reformers, was born a slave in Raleigh around 1851, and he lived there until his death in 1931. As public school teacher, journalist, and historian, Hunter devoted his long life to improving opportunities for blacks.



A political activist, but never a radical, he skillfully used his journalistic abilities and his personal contacts with whites to publicize the problems and progress of his race. He urged blacks to ally themselves with the best of the white leaders, and he constantly reminded whites that their treatment of his race ran counter to their professed religious beliefs and the basic tenets of the American liberal tradition. By carefully balancing his efforts, Hunter helped to establish a spirit of passive protest against racial injustice.



John Haley's compelling book, largely based on Hunter's voluminous papers, affords a unique opportunity to view race relations in North Carolina through the eyes of a black man. It also provides the first continuous survey of the black experience in the state from the end of the Civil War to the Great Depression, an account that critiques the belief that race relations were better in North Carolina than in other southern states.

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