Charles N. Hunter papers, 1850s-1932 and undated
Materials belonging to African American educator, journalist, and reformer Charles N. Hunter from Raleigh, North Carolina that discuss and illuminate the problems experienced by emancipated African Americans during Reconstruction and into the early 20th century, encompassing agriculture, business, race relations, reconstruction, education, politics, voting rights, and economic improvement.
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Date of Original
1850/1932
Subject
North Carolina Industrial Association
North Carolina State Fair--History
African American business enterprises--North Carolina
African American farmers--North Carolina
African American teachers--North Carolina
African American teachers--Correspondence
African Americans--History
African Americans--Education--North Carolina
African Americans--Social conditions
African Americans--History
Educators--Correspondence
Educators--North Carolina--Raleigh
Fairs--North Carolina--Raleigh
Freedmen--North Carolina
Racism--United States
Reconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877)
Temperance--United States
Durham (N.C.)--History
North Carolina--Politics and government
North Carolina--Social conditions
Race relations
North Carolina--Race relations
People
Aycock, Charles B. (Charles Brantley), 1859-1912
Bickett, Thomas Walter, 1869-1921
Borah, William Edgar, 1865-1940
Cheatham, Henry Plummer, 1857-1935
Craig, Locke, 1860-1925
Dawes, Charles Gates, 1865-1951
Douglass, Frederick, 1818-1895--Speeches
Du Bois, W. E. B. (William Edward Burghardt), 1868-1963
Hunter, Charles N., approximately 1851-1931
Lane, Lunsford, 1803-approximately 1863
Logan, John Alexander, 1826-1886
Overman, Lee S. (Lee Slater), 1854-1930
Roosevelt, Franklin D. (Franklin Delano), 1882-1945
Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919
Sumner, Charles, 1811-1874
Vance, Zebulon Baird, 1830-1894
Washington, Booker T., 1856-1915
White, George H. (George Henry), 1852-1918
Location
United States, North Carolina, Durham County, Durham, 35.99403, -78.89862
United States, North Carolina, Wake County, Raleigh, 35.7721, -78.63861
Medium
web sites
Type
InteractiveResource
Description
Materials belonging to African American educator, journalist, and reformer Charles N. Hunter from Raleigh, North Carolina that discuss and illuminate the problems experienced by emancipated African Americans during Reconstruction and into the early 20th century, encompassing agriculture, business, race relations, reconstruction, education, politics, voting rights, and economic improvement. The collection is comprised of correspondence, scrapbooks of clippings, print material such as articles and reports, and other papers, all dating from the Civil War into the first few decades of the twentieth century. Other topics include Durham and Raleigh, North Carolina history; the temperance movement, Hunter's personal matters and family finances, the North Carolina Industrial Association, and the North Carolina Negro State Fair. Significant correspondents include Charles B. Aycock, Thomas W. Bickett, William E. Borah, Craig Locke, Josephus Daniels, W.E.B. Du Bois, Charles G. Dawes, John A. Logan, Lee S. Overman, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Theodore Roosevelt, Charles Sumner, Zebulon B. Vance, and Booker T. Washington. There is also correpondence from two early African American congressmen, Henry P. Cheatham and George H. White. Also included is a draft of a speech given by Frederick Douglass in 1880 at the second Negro State Fair, and a fourth edition of Lunsford Lane's slave narrative.
Contributing Institution
David M. Rubenstein Rare Book & Manuscript Library
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