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
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 […]
The Ku Klux Klan in Post-Civil War North Carolina
I think of historians as investigative journalists of the past. I especially feel that way when I write an essay or book based on court records. My first book, Unruly Women, was such a work, and […]
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