Posted in Tar Heelia on September 23, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
The cable network C-SPAN will be featuring the history and literature of Charlotte this weekend. One of their Local Content Vehicles was in Charlotte a few weeks ago, and seems to have made the rounds, visiting libraries, bookstores, historic sites, and talking to local authors. Get a sneak preview online at http://www.c-span.org/LocalContent/Charlotte/. Among many other [...]
Posted in Just A Bite, tagged black education, eric foner, gov jonathan worth, reconstruction on September 23, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
“Gov. Jonathan Worth, elected in 1865, had earlier in his career steered to passage the bill establishing public education in North Carolina, but he now persuaded the legislature to abolish the state school system altogether…. The governor feared that if white children were educated at public expense, ‘we will be required to educate the negroes [...]
