By Vikki Bynum In October, 1868, and August, 1869, Rep. Cuffee Mayo of Granville County, North Carolina, gathered with a group of mostly mixed-race men to sign petitions
Race and Reconstruction in North Carolina: Rep. Cuffee Mayo of Granville County
“Free People of Color” in Slaveholding North Carolina: The Andersons of Granville County
By Vikki Bynum Late last year, I was contacted by Raymont Hawkins-Jones, a descendant of a family I’d written about many years earlier: the Andersons of Granville County, North Carolina. The Andersons […]
A North Carolina Community in Crisis, 1868-1869
By Victoria Bynum Some time ago, I posted an essay about the Ku Klux Klan’s terrorization of Orange County, North Carolina, in the years following the Civil War. Recently, I recovered from […]
Exploring the Many Facets of Mixed-Race Identity
By Vikki Bynum, Moderator In recent weeks, The Family Origins of Vernon Dahmer, Civil Rights Activist, by Yvonne Bivins and Wilmer Watts Backstrom, published December 6, 2009, on Renegade South, has received […]
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