Column: The tumultuous 1950 Senate Primary race
Primary season is upon us here in North Carolina, and many will head to the polls on May 17 to nominate candidates for hundreds of offices up for election in the fall.
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Primary season is upon us here in North Carolina, and many will head to the polls on May 17 to nominate candidates for hundreds of offices up for election in the fall.
In discussions regarding the history of American civil rights, integration is sometimes treated as an instantaneous event. In popular history, Brown v. Board of Education marked the end of segregation in schools, the Civil Rights Act of 1964 ended segregation in public facilities and the Fair Housing Act ended segregation in American housing.
If you are looking for a typical winter wonderland, North Carolina is not the place for you.
What exactly is the “University of North Carolina”?
Kenan Stadium. Kenan Center. Kenan-Flagler Business School. Kenan Hall. It seems you can’t walk around UNC without seeing the name “Kenan” etched into the walls somewhere.
Let me preface this by saying that I love history.
The late 1960s were characterized by an upswell of civil strife across the world.
If you want to catch a baseball game in the Triangle nowadays, your options certainly aren’t limited. Durham has been home to the Durham Bulls since the early twentieth century, and Zebulon in Wake County has hosted the Carolina Mudcats since 1991. Aside from the pros, UNC, N.C. State and Duke have fielded fairly strong teams in their own right.
1931 was not an ideal time to be living in rural North Carolina. Not only was the Great Depression in full swing, but for the people of Western North Carolina, a great beast was wreaking havoc.
They knew it was a dangerous task.
At exit 486, you leave U.S. Highway 64 to find yourself on a two-lane road. From your car, the community you enter looks just like many others that dot the landscape of Eastern North Carolina: a Lions Club sign greets you to the town, as do a squat town hall and homes with neatly trimmed lawns. The quiet Tar River passes slowly by, separating it from its larger neighbor, Tarboro.
When I say “party at UNC,” you probably think of booze-soaked fraternity dudes doing morally questionable things with a keg, a hose and a funnel. Or maybe you think of scumbags who convene in large groups during a global pandemic because “haha, we’re in college, we’re supposed to have fun!”
The past few years at UNC have been characterized by heightened levels of activism and unrest, particularly with regards to racial justice and equality on campus. On Aug. 20, 2018, it seemed to reach its peak with the toppling of Silent Sam by protesters.
When former President Franklin Delano Roosevelt ran for office in 1932, he made sweeping promises to put the nation back on track following the Great Depression. Over the next several years, the federal government would create a wide array of programs to get people working again, ranging from the National Recovery Administration, which incentivized companies to create more jobs, to the Federal Arts Project, a program devised to “provide work relief for artists in various media” across America.
For the past several days, the 2020 Republican National Convention has (sort of) been taking place in Charlotte. President Donald Trump, the party's nominee for president, and Vice President Mike Pence addressed their fellow Republicans, as did other party leaders like South Carolina Sen. Tim Scott and former UN Ambassador Nikki Haley.
Did you know North Carolina faced major shortages even before the pandemic began? Not in hospital beds, masks or ventilators, but in human capital.
Six weeks after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, a steamship named City of Atlanta charted a course from New York City to Savannah. As a precautionary measure to avoid the perilous periscopes of enemy U-boats that had already claimed other Atlantic vessels, the ship’s lights were dimmed and the vessel clung close to the shoreline.
To say April 1865 wasn’t a great month for the Confederate States of America would be putting it mildly. Over just four short weeks, the Confederacy lost its capital, its two largest armies, its last hopes for legitimacy and President Abraham Lincoln, who was arguably the only Republican in Washington who didn’t want to wreak complete hellfire upon them. As a member of this morally bankrupt and dying confederacy, North Carolina saw its fair share of action during those 30 days.
By January 1961, the United States was well into the Cold War. Citizens had spent the last decade digging bomb shelters in their backyards and filling them with supplies to survive the nuclear apocalypse, and the government produced cute films about how to avoid getting your face melted by a nuclear blast. People feared that, one day, some deranged leader in Moscow would send the missiles and bombs into their cities and end their livelihoods in the blink of an eye.
As coronavirus wraps around the globe, causing school and business closures, erratic economic swings and a critical toilet paper shortage, some have compared the ongoing struggle to contain the virus to a warlike effort. Like in the great wars of history, governments and private entities are dedicating mammoth amounts of resources and manpower to eradicate the illness.