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McGuire Collection of Letters from Black Soldiers
Collection
Identifier: SC-MS-051
Scope and Contents
This collection is comprised of 109 photocopies of letters from Black soldiers during World War II. They were used in Dr. Phillip McGuire’s book, Taps for a Jim Crow Army, published in 1983. The letters contain the many maltreatments Black soldiers dealt with during their service, including the complaints they made and corresponding consequences they suffered for speaking out. Maltreatments included but were not limited to use of racial slurs, corporal...
Dates:
1941-1946 (photocopies), 1983; Majority of material found within 1941-1946 (photocopies)
Found in:
Special Collections
McLean Page Family Papers
Collection
Identifier: SC-MS-315
Scope and Contents
This collection contains documentation of the Page family from 1911 to 2000, including accounting books, receipts, loans, correspondence, photographs, a bible, and a marriage license. McLean Page and the Page family worked as farmers, potentially sharecroppers, in Whiteville, North Carolina. Many of the papers in this collection are records of transactions for farm equipment and resources, including financial documents, loan papers, and crop lien forms. Personal to the family are photographs...
Dates:
1911-2000
Found in:
Special Collections
The Black Poet Manuscript
Collection
Identifier: SC-MS-094
Scope and Contents
The Black Poet was the 1865 annouced title of a work to be published that was to contain "a concise history of the life" of George Moses Horton, bard and recently freed enslaved individual. Richard Walser used the 1865 title for his 1996 work on Horton, since no evidence exists that the 1865 book was ever written. Walser wrote his "concise history" during part of a year he spent on a Guggenheim Fellowship. Claude Howell created the drawings for the book. This collection contains the...
Dates:
1966
Found in:
Special Collections
Wilmington, North Carolina, 1898 Coup D'état (Newspapers)
Collection
Identifier: SC-MS-132
Scope and Contents
This collection contains photocopies of issues of the Wilmington Daily Record, The Evening Dispatch, and fragments of the New York Journal around the time of and covering the Wilmington coup in 1898. The Journal makes explicit reference to the "riots" in Wilmington, gives the death toll as sixteen killed, and reprints the text of the Alex Manley...
Dates:
1898 (photocopies)
Found in:
Special Collections
"Wilmington Riot of November 10, 1898" Source Documents
Collection
Identifier: SC-MS-069
Scope and Contents
This collection was compiled in 1973 by Michael Glancy, to complete his Multiple Abilities Project research report entitled "The Wilmington Riot of November 10, 1898." The collection includes xerographic, microform, and photocopies of newspaper and periodical articles, letters, memoranda, resolutions, and memoirs of some of the principal participants in the November 10, 1898 racially-motivated coup d'etat of Wilmington, NC. Featured persons include Alfred Moore Waddell, Senator Marion...
Dates:
1865-1936 (photocopies)
Found in:
Special Collections