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History's Shadow: Slavery and Status Moderator: Anna Krome-Lukens, Ph.D. candidate in history, UNC-Chapel Hill Panelists: Edward Ayers Grace Hale Shannon Eaves
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Literature Into Law: Interrogating Democracy in the Post-Reconstruction Nation On Tourgée as national civil rights advocate and architect of Homer Plessy’s case, as well as the historical reception of his concept of “color-blind” justice. Moderator/panelist Alfred Brophy, Judge John J. Parker Distinguished Professor of Law, UNC School of Law, writes about the racial history of the South and its contemporary impact. His books include Reconstructing…
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A Fool's Errand? Reconstructing the Narrative of Freedom in North Carolina On Tourgée’s life as lawyer, judge, public servant, and novelist in Reconstruction North Carolina, 1865-79. Moderator/panelist Ann McColl, attorney and independent scholar, is legislative director for the North Carolina Board of Education. She is the creator of Constitutional Tales, a dramatic presentation that brings the Constitutional Convention of 1868 to life. Panelists Frank…
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Mark Elliott is an associate professor of history at UNC Greensboro. He is author of Color-Blind Justice: Albion Tourgée and the Quest for Racial Equality from the Civil War to Plessy v. Ferguson (2006).
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Blair Kelley is an associate professor of history at North Carolina State University. In Right to Ride: Streetcar Boycotts and African American Citizenship in the Era of Plessy v. Ferguson (2010), she examines some of the earliest struggles against Jim Crow, situating Plessy within a larger context of protest and resistance.
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