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Copyright is retained by the authors of items in these papers, or their descendants, as stipulated by United States copyright law.

Preferred Citation

[Identification of item], in the Alice Eley Jones Collection #5160, Southern Historical Collection, Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Acquisitions Information

Received from Alice Eley Jones of Murfreesboro, N.C., in May 2004 (Acc 99797) and February 2005 (Acc. 100006).

Sensitive Materials Statement

Manuscript collections and archival records may contain materials with sensitive or confidential information that is protected under federal or state right to privacy laws and regulations, the North Carolina Public Records Act (N.C.G.S. § 132 1 et seq.), and Article 7 of the North Carolina State Personnel Act (Privacy of State Employee Personnel Records, N.C.G.S. § 126-22 et seq.). Researchers are advised that the disclosure of certain information pertaining to identifiable living individuals represented in this collection without the consent of those individuals may have legal ramifications (e.g., a cause of action under common law for invasion of privacy may arise if facts concerning an individual's private life are published that would be deemed highly offensive to a reasonable person) for which the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill assumes no responsibility.

Processed by: Nathalie Wheaton, September 2004

Encoded by: Nathalie Wheaton, September 2004

Updated by: Amy Morgan and Jodi Berkowitz, January 2019

The following terms from Library of Congress Subject Headings suggest topics, persons, geography, etc. interspersed through the entire collection; the terms do not usually represent discrete and easily identifiable portions of the collection--such as folders or items.

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• African American families--North Carolina.
• African Americans--North Carolina--Hertford County.
• African Americans--North Carolina--Social life and customs.
• Ahoskie (N.C.)--History.
• Brown, Calvin Scott, 1859-1936.
• Flood, Dudley E.
• Hertford County (N.C.)--History.
• Hunter, Howard.
• Jones family.
• Jones, Alice Eley.
• Meherrin Indians--North Carolina--Hertford County.
• Murfreesboro (N.C.)--History.
• Rouson, George T.
• Rouson, Wilber Homer.
• Winton (N.C.)--History.

Alice Eley Jones of Murfreesboro, N.C., is a writer and historian, specializing in North Carolina and African American history. She taught history at North Carolina Central University in Durham, N.C., from 1987 to 1992. In 1992, she began a history consulting business called Historically Speaking and, in 2002, began a publishing company, Minnie Troy Publishers. In 2002, Jones's book Hertford County, North Carolina was released. Jones collected much material for that book, requesting that anyone with materials relating to the county contribute them for archival preservation. Her other major works include the 2004 publications Within the Hope Plantation Household: A Cultural History of Bertie County 1550-1828 and Carpentry and Woodworking Tools of Hope Plantation.

The collection includes materials collected by writer and historian Alice Eley Jones of Murfreesboro, N.C., for her book Hertford County, North Carolina for Arcadia Publishing's Black America Series. The book is about the history of Hertford County, N.C., its Native American Meherrin tribe roots and African American heritage. The materials mostly concern Ahoskie, N.C., Winton, N.C., and Murfreesboro, N.C. Articles, souvenir church programs, and other materials provide information on prominent Hertford County African Americans, including Calvin S. Brown, Dr. Dudley E. Flood, Representative Howard Hunter, Jr., the Reverend George T. Rouson, artist Wilbur Homer Rouson, and members of the Jones family.

Items separated include a compact disc containing pictures (DCD-5160/1).