In this interview, George Simkins discusses why he decided to challenge Cone Hospital in court. He also describes the processes of initiating a lawsuit.
- ANCHOR
- Introduction to NC Digital History, ANCHOR
- Two Worlds: Prehistory, Contact, and the Lost Colony (to 1600)
- Colonial North Carolina (1600-1763)
- Introduction to Colonial North Carolina (1600-1763)
- Planting a Colony
- The Founding of Virginia
- Supplies for Virginia Colonists, 1622
- A Little Kingdom in Carolina
- The Charter of Carolina (1663)
- The Lords Proprietors
- Primary Source: A Declaration and Proposals of the Lords Proprietors of Carolina (1663)
- William Hilton Explores the Cape Fear River
- Primary Source: A Brief Description of the Province of Carolina
- Land Ownership and Labor in Carolina
- Primary Source: The Fundamental Constitutions of Carolina (1669)
- Culpeper's Rebellion
- Settling the Coastal Plain
- The Present State of Carolina [People and Climate]
- Primary Source: An Act to Encourage the Settlement of America (1707)
- The Arrival of Swiss Immigrants
- Primary Source: A German Immigrant Writes to Home
- Quakers
- Graveyard of the Atlantic
- Primary Source: Of the Inlets and Havens of This Country
- The Life and Death of Blackbeard the Pirate
- The Tuscarora War and Cary's Rebellion
- Cary's Rebellion
- The Tuscarora War
- Who Owns the Land?
- Primary Source: John Lawson's Assessment of the Tuscarora
- Primary Source: The Tuscarora Ask Pennsylvania for Aid
- Primary Source: A Letter from Major Christopher Gale, November 2, 1711
- Primary Source: Christoph von Graffenried's Account of the Tuscarora War
- The Fate of North Carolina's Native Peoples
- Carolina Becomes North and South Carolina
- From Africa to America
- The Lives of African People Before the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade
- Primary Source: Leo Africanus Describes Timbuktu
- A Forced Migration
- Primary Source: Olaudah Equiano Remembers West Africa
- Primary Source: Venture Smith Describes His Enslavement
- Primary Source: Falconbridge's Account of the Slave Trade on the Coast of Africa
- African and African American Storytelling
- Settling the Piedmont
- Expanding to the West: Settlement of the Piedmont Region, 1730 to 1775
- Mapping the Great Wagon Road
- The Moravians: From Europe to North America
- Primary Source: Summary of a Report Sent to Bethlehem
- From Caledonia to Carolina: The Highland Scots
- Primary Source: William Byrd on the People and Environment of North Carolina
- Governing the Piedmont
- Daily Life and Work
- The Importance of Rice to North Carolina
- Primary Source: Janet Schaw on American Agriculture
- Naval Stores and the Longleaf Pine
- The Value of Money in Colonial America
- Marriage in Colonial North Carolina
- Families in Colonial North Carolina
- Learning in Colonial Carolina
- Primary Source: Jesse Cook's Orphan Apprenticeship
- Benjamin Wadsworth on Children's Duties to Their Parents
- North Carolina's First Newspaper
- Poor Richard's Almanack
- Primary Source: Nathan Cole and the First Great Awakening
- Mapping Life in a Colonial Town
- Colonial Cooking and Foodways
- Material Culture: Exploring Wills and Inventories
- About Wills and Probate Inventories
- Primary Source: Probate Inventory of Valentine Bird, 1680
- Primary Source: Will of Susanna Robisson, 1709
- Primary Source: Probate Inventory of Darby O'Brian, 1725
- Primary Source: Will of Samuel Nicholson, 1727
- Primary Source: Will of William Cartright, Sr., 1733
- Primary Source: Probate Inventory of James and Anne Pollard, Tyrrell County, 1750
- Primary Source: Will of Richard Blackledge, Craven County, 1776
- Primary Source: Probate Inventory of Richard Blackledge, Craven County, 1777
- Inventories
- The French and Indian War (Intro)
- Revolutionary North Carolina (1763-1790)
- The Regulators: Introduction
- The Regulators
- Primary Source: George Sims' An Address to the People of Granville County
- Primary Source: The Regulators Organize
- Primary Source: Herman Husband and "Some grievous oppressions"
- Primary Source: Edmund Fanning Reports to Governor Tryon
- Primary Source: Orange County Inhabitants Petition Governor Tryon
- Primary Source: Songs of the Regulators
- Primary Source: The Cost of Tryon Palace
- Primary Source: Chaos in Hillsborough 1770
- Primary Source: An Act for Preventing Tumultuous and Riotous Assemblies
- Primary Source: An Authentick Relation of the Battle of Alamance
- Primary Source: Aftermath of the Battle of Alamance
- Beginnings of the American Revolution: Resistance and Revolution
- Timeline of Resistance, 1763–1774
- Dashed Hopes for the Frontier
- Taxes, Trade, and Resistance
- The Stamp Act Crisis in North Carolina
- Primary Source: A Pledge to Violate the Stamp Act
- Primary Source: The First Provincial Congress
- Primary Source: The "Edenton Tea Party"
- Primary Source: Political Cartoon, "A Society of Patriotic Ladies"
- Primary Source: Backcountry Residents Proclaim Their Loyalty
- Primary Source: The Committees of Safety
- Primary Source: Loyalist Perspective on the Violence in Wilmington
- War and Independence
- Timeline of the Revolution 1775–1779
- Which Side to Take: Revolutionary or Loyalist?
- The Mecklenburg Declaration
- Primary Source: The Mecklenburg Resolves
- Josiah Martin and His Exit from New Bern
- "Liberty to Slaves": The Response of Free and Enslaved Black People to Revolution
- Thomas Peters, Black Loyalist and African Nationalist
- The Black Pioneers Loyalist Company
- Primary Source: Lord Dunmore's Proclamation
- Primary Source: A Virginian Responds to Dunmore's Proclamation
- The Battle of Moores Creek Bridge
- Primary Source: Mary Slocumb at Moores Creek Bridge: The Birth of a Legend
- A Call for Independence
- Primary Source: Minutes on The Halifax Resolves
- Primary Source: The Declaration of Independence
- North Carolina’s Signers of the Declaration of Independence
- Primary Source: Plans for Democracy
- Primary Source: "Creed of a Rioter"
- Primary Source: The North Carolina Constitution and Declaration of Rights
- Nancy Hart, Revolutionary Woman
- American Indian People in North Carolina's Revolution
- The Cherokees' and Catawbas' Stance in the Revolutionary War
- Primary Source: Boundary Between North Carolina and the Cherokee Nation, 1767
- Primary Source: The Transylvania Purchase and the Treaty of Sycamore Shoals, March 17, 1775
- The Rutherford Expedition
- Primary Source: A Letter to Brigadier General Rutherford
- Primary Source: Cherokee Leaders Speak About Land Cessions
- The Abduction of Jemima Boone
- The War in the South
- Timeline of the Revolution, 1780–1783
- Backcountry Loyalists in North Carolina
- The Southern Campaign
- Important Revolutionary War Sites: Quaker Meadows, N.C.
- The Battle of Kings Mountain
- The Overmountain Men and the Battle of Kings Mountain
- Primary Source: Diary Reporting Chaos in Salem
- The Battle of Guilford Courthouse
- David Fanning and the Tory War of 1781
- Skirmish at the House in the Horseshoe
- Primary Source: A Petition to Protect Loyalist Families
- A New National Government
- The First National Government: The Articles of Confederation
- Primary Source: The Articles of Confederation
- The Constitutional Convention
- Primary Source: The Constitution of the United States
- Primary Source: Debating the Federal Constitution
- Primary Source: North Carolina Demands a Declaration of Rights
- Primary Source: The Bill of Rights
- The Regulators: Introduction
- Early National (1790-1836)
- Creating a State
- An Agricultural State
- Primary Source: Thomas Jefferson on Manufacturing and Commerce
- Primary Source: Rachel Allen's Experience as Midwife and use of Herbal Medicine
- Primary Source: A Father's Advice to His Sons
- Eli Whitney and the Cotton Gin
- The Growth of Slavery in North Carolina
- Primary Source: Excerpt from Schoepf on the Auction of Enslaved People in Wilmington
- Christian Revival
- The Second Great Awakening
- Into the Wilderness: Circuit Riders Take Religion to the People
- A Camp Meeting Scene
- What a Religious Revival Is
- Primary Source: Description of a Nineteenth Century Revival
- Rock Springs Camp Meeting
- Primary Source: "Be saved from the jaws of an angry hell"
- Primary Source: John Jea's Narrative on Slavery and Christianity
- Primary Source: Excerpt from "Elizabeth, a Colored Minister of the Gospel, Born in Slavery"
- John Chavis
- The Development of Sacred Singing
- The Rip Van Winkle State
- Searching for Greener Pastures: Out-Migration in the 1800s
- Migration Into and Out of North Carolina: Exploring Census Data
- Primary Source: North Carolina's Leaders Speak Out on Emigration
- Archibald Murphey
- Primary Source: "A poor, ignorant, squalid population"
- Primary Source: Archibald Murphey Proposes a System of Public Education
- Primary Source: Archibald Murphey Calls for Better Inland Navigation
- Canova's Statue of Washington
- Education
- Primary Source: A Free School in Beaufort
- Primary Source: Rules for Students and Teachers
- Primary Source: John Chavis Opens a School for White and Black Students
- Primary Source: Education and Literacy in Edgecombe County, 1810
- Primary Source: "For What Is a Mother Responsible?"
- The University of North Carolina Opens
- Primary Source: Student Life at UNC
- Cherokee Mission Schools
- Primary Source: A Bill to Prevent All Persons from Teaching Slaves to Read or Write, the Use of Figures Excepted (1830)
- Primary Source: Advertisements for Child Academies
- Primary Source: First Year at New Garden Boarding School
- Timeline of North Carolina Colleges (1766–1861)
- Gold Rush
- Traveling the State
- State and National Politics
- The Stanly-Spaight Duel
- The Louisiana Purchase
- The War of 1812
- Primary Source: Debating War with Britain: For the War
- Primary Source: Debating War with Britain: Against the War
- Primary Source: The Burning of Washington
- Primary Source: Dolley Madison and the White House Treasures
- The Expansion of Slavery and the Missouri Compromise
- Nat Turner's Rebellion (Intro)
- Nat Turner's Rebellion
- Mapping Rumors of Nat Turner's Rebellion
- Primary Source: "Fear of Insurrection"
- Primary Source: Reporting on Nat Turner: The North Carolina Star, Sept. 1
- Primary Source: Reporting on Nat Turner: The Raleigh Register, Sept. 1
- Primary Source: Reporting on Nat Turner: The Raleigh Register, Sept. 15
- Primary Source: News Reporting of Insurrections in North Carolina
- Primary Source: Hysteria in Wilmington
- Primary Source: Letter Concerning Nat Turner's Rebellion
- Primary Source: Remembering Nat Turner
- Cherokee Removal and the Trail of Tears
- The Cherokee and the Trail of Tears
- The Cherokee Language and Syllabary
- Primary Source: Andrew Jackson Calls for Indian Removal
- Primary Source: "We have unexpectedly become civilized"
- Primary Source: The Indian Removal Act of 1830
- Primary Source: Cherokee Nation v. the State of Georgia, 1831
- Primary Source: Chief John Ross Protests the Treaty of New Echota
- Primary Source: A Soldier Recalls the Trail of Tears
- Primary Source: The Legend of Tsali
- Reform
- Whigs and Democrats
- Reform Movements Across the United States
- Primary Source: 1835 Amendments to the North Carolina Constitution
- Ratifying the Amendments
- Primary Source: North Carolina's First Public School Opens
- Criminal Law and Reform
- Dorothea Dix Hospital
- Primary Source: Dorothea Dix Pleads for a State Mental Hospital
- Primary Source: The Raleigh Female Benevolent Society
- Antebellum (1836–1860)
- A Slave State
- Distribution of Land and Slaves
- Social Divisions in Antebellum North Carolina
- Primary Source: North Carolina v. Mann
- Primary Source: The Quakers and Anti-Slavery
- Levi Coffin and the Underground Railroad
- Negotiated Segregation in Salem
- Primary Source: Ned Hyman's Appeal for Manumission
- Primary Source: A Petition to Free a White Slave
- Primary Source: A Sampling of Black Codes
- Primary Sources: Advertising Recapture and Sale of Enslaved People
- Primary Source: Freedom-Seekers and the Great Dismal Swamp
- Primary Source: Antislavery Feeling in the Mountains
- Farms and Plantations
- Primary Source: James Evan's Seasons on a Farm
- Primary Source: Henry William Harrington Jr.'s Diary
- Primary Source: Diary of a Farm Wife
- Primary Source: The Duties of a Young Woman
- Primary Source: Southern Cooking and Housekeeping Book, 1824
- Primary Source: Thomas Bowie's diary
- Primary Source: Court Days
- Primary Source: A Bilious Fever
- Bright Leaf Tobacco
- Primary Source: Frederick Law Olmstead on Naval Stores in Antebellum North Carolina
- Primary Source: Stagville Plantation Expenses Records
- Plantation Records: Property
- Primary Source: Stagville Plantation Expansion Records
- Antebellum Homes and Plantations
- Life Under Enslavement
- The Life of an Enslaved Person
- Primary Source: Excerpt from James Curry's Autobiography
- Primary Source: Interview with Fountain Hughes
- Primary Source: Harriet Jacobs Book Excerpt
- Primary Source: Lunsford Lane Buys His Freedom
- Primary Source: James Curry Escapes from Slavery
- Jonkonnu in North Carolina
- Primary Source: Cameron Family Plantation Records
- Business and Industry
- Technology and Transportation
- Music and the Arts
- Joining Together in Song: Piedmont Music in Black and White
- Primary Source: African American Spirituals
- Primary Source: The Gospel Train
- Primary Source: I'm Gwine Home on de Mornin' Train
- Primary Source: Long Way to Travel
- Frankie Silver: Female Folklore Legend
- Primary Source: The Ballad of Frankie Silver
- Primary Source: All Hail to Thee, Thou Good Old State
- Primary Source: The Old North State
- George Moses Horton
- Primary Source: George Moses Horton's "Death of an Old Carriage Horse"
- Towards Secession
- From Pro-Slavery to Secession
- The Mexican-American War
- The California Gold Rush
- The Compromise of 1850
- A Divided Nation
- Primary Source: Hedrick's Defense
- Primary Source: UNC Dismisses Benjamin Hedrick
- Primary Source: Helper's The Impending Crisis of the South
- Primary Source: Furor Over Hinton Helper's Book
- The Election of 1860
- A Slave State
- Civil War and Reconstruction (1860-1876)
- Secession
- Timeline of the Civil War, January–June 1861
- Secession and Civil War
- Fort Sumter
- Primary Source: North Carolinians Debate Secession
- Primary Source: A Virginia Boy Volunteers
- Primary Source: A UNC Student Asks to Sign Up
- Primary Source: North Carolina Secedes
- Primary Source: The North Carolina Oath of Allegiance
- Primary Source: "The Southern Cross"
- The War Begins, 1861
- North and South in 1861
- Timeline of the Civil War, July 1861-July 1864
- The Civil War: from Bull Run to Appomattox
- North Carolina as a Civil War Battlefield: May 1861-April 1862
- The Union Blockade
- Primary Source: Rose O'Neal Greenhow Describes the Battle of Manassas
- Tar Heels Pitch In
- Primary Source: Girls Helping the Cause
- The Burnside Expedition, 1862
- The War Continues, 1862–1864
- North Carolina as a Civil War Battlefield, May 1862–November 1864
- Primary Source: The Raleigh Standard Protests Conscription
- Primary Source: Running the Blockade
- Primary Source: Cargo Manifests of Confederate Blockade Runners
- Primary Source: Freed People at New Bern
- Primary Source: The Emancipation Proclamation
- Primary Source: Iowa Royster on the March into Pennsylvania
- African American Soldiers
- The Thomas Legion
- Primary Source: The Capture of Plymouth
- Civil War Casualties
- A Soldier's Life
- The Life of a Civil War Soldier
- Small Arms in the Civil War
- Civil War Uniforms
- Soldiers' Food
- Primary Source: Rose O'Neal Greenhow to Jefferson Davis
- Primary Source: "My dear little darling"
- Primary Source: Life in Camp
- Primary Source: A Plea for Supplies
- Civil War Army Hospitals
- Primary Source: Enduring Amputation
- Salisbury Prison
- Primary Source: Vance's Proclamation Against Deserters
- Primary Source: "I am sorry to tell that some of our brave boys has got killed"
- The Home Front
- Primary Source: "My dear I ha'n't forgot you"
- Zebulon Vance
- The Roanoke Island Freedmen's Colony
- Paper Money in the Civil War
- Primary Source: Pleading for Corn
- Primary Source: A Female Raid
- Primary Source: "No one has anything to sell"
- The Shelton Laurel Massacre
- Primary Source: The Home Guard
- Primary Source: A Civil War at Home: Treatment of Unionists
- The Lowry War
- Primary Source: Life Under Union Occupation
- The War Comes to an End, 1864–1865
- Timeline of the Civil War, August 1864–May 1865
- North Carolina as a Civil War Battlefield, November 1864–May 1865
- Primary Source: The Destruction of the CSS Albemarle
- Wilmington, Fort Fisher, and the Lifeline of the Confederacy
- Primary Source: Lincoln's Plans for Reconstruction
- Primary Source: An Account of Stoneman's Raid
- Sherman's March Through North Carolina
- Primary Source: "Where Home Used to Be"
- Primary Source: The Battle of Bentonville
- The Assassination of Abraham Lincoln
- Johnston Surrenders
- Mustering Out of the Confederate Army
- Primary Source: Parole Signed by the Officers and Men in Johnston's Army
- Primary Source: "For us the War is Ended"
- Primary Source: Catherine Anne Devereux Edmondston and the Collapse of the Confederacy
- Primary Source: May 1865 Advertisements
- Freedom
- Primary Source: What Justice Entitles Us To
- Primary Source: Character of Men Employed as Scouts
- Early Schools for Freed People
- Primary Source: Freedmen's Schools the school houses are crowded, and the people are clamorous for more
- Primary Source: Louisa Jacobs on Freedmen
- Primary Source: Address of The Raleigh Freedmen's Convention
- Primary Source: Reuniting Families
- Making Marriages Legal
- Primary Source: Charges of Abuse
- Juneteenth
- Reconstruction (Intro)
- Reconstruction
- Timeline of Reconstruction in North Carolina
- Reconstruction in North Carolina
- Primary Source: Johnson's Amnesty Proclamation
- Primary Source: Amnesty Letters
- Primary Source: Black Codes in North Carolina, 1866
- Primary Source: Catherine Edmondston and Reconstruction
- Primary Source: Amending the U.S. Constitution
- African Americans Get the Vote in Eastern North Carolina
- Primary Source: Military Reconstruction Act
- Disabled Veterans of the Civil War, Part I
- Disabled Veterans of the Civil War, Part II
- Disabled Veterans of the Civil War, Part III
- Carpetbaggers
- John Adams Hyman
- The 1868 Constitution
- Jim Crow
- "Redemption" and the End of Reconstruction
- Redemption and Redeemers in the South
- Primary Source: Republican Rule
- Primary Source: Conservative Opposition
- Primary Source: The Rise of the Ku Klux Klan
- Primary Source: Governor Holden Speaks Out Against the Ku Klux Klan
- The Kirk-Holden War
- Primary Source: The Murder of "Chicken" Stephens
- Primary Source: "Address to the Colored People of North Carolina"
- The Compromise of 1877
- The Lost Cause
- Secession
- North Carolina in the New South (1870-1900)
- Changes in Agriculture
- Life on the Land: The Piedmont Before Industrialization
- A Revolution in Agriculture
- Sharecropping and Tenant Farming
- Primary Source: Life on the Land: Voices
- Primary Source: A Sharecropper's Contract
- The Struggles of a Tenant Farmer
- Primary Source: The Evils of the Crop Lien System
- Tobacco Farming the Old Way
- The History of the State Fair
- The African American State Fair
- Cities and Industry
- Growth and Transformation: the United States in the Gilded Age
- Primary Source: Henry Grady and the "New South"
- Industrialization in North Carolina
- The Growth of Cities
- Immigration in U.S. History
- Railroads in Western North Carolina
- The Dukes of Durham
- The Tobacco Industry and Winston-Salem
- The Textile Industry and Winston-Salem
- Primary Source: Small-Town Businesses, 1903
- Primary Source: New Machine Shop in Plymouth, N.C.
- The Belk Brothers' Department Stores
- Factories and Mill Villages
- Work in a Textile Mill
- Primary Source: Working in a Tobacco Factory
- Life in the Mill Villages
- Primary Source: Mill Villages
- Mill Village and Factory: Voices
- Inventions in the Tobacco Industry
- The Bonsack Machine and Labor Unrest
- Workers' Pay and the Cost of Living
- The Struggles of Labor and the Rise of Labor Unions
- Primary Source: The Knights of Labor
- Primary Source: Opposition to the Knights of Labor
- Primary Source: Tobacco Workers Strike
- Education and Opportunity
- Timeline of North Carolina Colleges and Universities, 1865–1900
- North Carolina State University
- A Women's College
- Primary Source: Student Life at the Normal and Industrial School
- Primary Source: Wealth and Education by the Numbers, North Carolina 1900
- The Colored State Normal Schools
- Primary Source: African American College Students, 1906
- The Biltmore Forest School
- Athletics
- Life in the Gilded Age
- Biltmore Estate
- Primary Source: Charles Waddell Chesnutt's "The Bouquet"
- Primary Source: Southern Women and the Bicycle
- Primary Source: Bicycles and the Public
- The Roller Skate Craze
- Advertising New Products
- Cities and Public Architecture
- Sanitariums
- Primary Source: Warm Springs Hotel Advertisement
- Primary Source: Tourism Advertisement for Southern Pines, NC
- Richard Etheridge
- North Carolina in an American Empire
- Politics and Populism
- The Rise of Populism
- Populists, Fusionists, and White Supremacists: North Carolina Politics from Reconstruction to the Election of 1898
- Primary Source: Leonidas Polk and the Farmers' Alliance
- Primary Source: Chatham County Farmers Protest
- Marion Butler and Fusion Politics
- George Henry White: a Biographical Sketch
- 1898 and White Supremacy
- Primary Source: The Wilmington Record Editorial
- Primary Source: The Democrats Appeal to Voters
- The Wilmington Coup
- Primary Source: The "Revolutionary Mayor" of Wilmington
- Primary Source: Letter from an African American Citizen of Wilmington to the President
- Primary Source: J. Allen Kirk on the 1898 Wilmington Coup
- Primary Source: The Suffrage Amendment
- Voter Registration Cards
- Primary Source: Governor Aycock on "The Negro Problem"
- Wilmington Massacre November 1898
- Changes in Agriculture
- North Carolina in the Early 20th Century (1900–1929)
- Turn of the 20th Century Technology and Transportation
- Primary Source: New Bern Daily Journal on Municipal Electric Services
- Electric Streetcars
- Idol’s Dam and Power Plant
- Primary Source: Max Bennet Thrasher on Rural Free Delivery
- Primary Source: Consequences of the Telephone
- The Road to the First Flight
- Announcing the First Flight
- Primary Source: Newspaper Coverage of the First Flight
- Henry Ford and the Model T
- Primary Source: Women and the Automobile
- Primary Source: Letter Promoting the Good Roads Movement
- WBT Charlotte in the Golden Age of Radio
- Sour Stomachs and Galloping Headaches
- The Progressive Era
- Reform and a New Era
- Primary Source: History of Women's Clubs
- Primary Source: Charles Brantley Aycock and His Views on Education
- Primary Source: Woman's Association for Improving School Houses
- Statewide Prohibition
- Primary Source: Railroad Quarantines
- Winston-Salem's Early Hospitals
- Primary Source: Food Adulteration
- Primary Source: Upton Sinclair's The Jungle
- Primary Source: Bulletin on Sanitation and Privies
- World War I
- Timeline of World War I
- The United States and World War I
- Propaganda and Public Opinion in the First World War
- "Over There"
- The War and German Americans
- The Increasing Power of Destruction: military technology in World War I
- Primary Source: The Importance of Camp Bragg
- Primary Source: Speech on Conditions at Camp Greene
- Primary Source: Diary of a Doughboy
- Primary Source: Letter Home from the American Expeditionary Force
- Primary Source: Governor Bickett's speech to the Deserters of Ashe County
- Rescue at Sea
- North Carolina and the "Blue Death": The Flu Epidemic of 1918
- Primary Source: Bulletin on Stopping the Spread of Influenza
- Primary Source: Speech on Nationalism from Warren Harding
- African American Involvement in World War I
- The Treaty of Versailles
- Women's Suffrage
- Timeline of Women's Suffrage
- The Long Struggle for Women's Suffrage
- Primary Source: Equal Pay for Equal Work
- Gertrude Weil
- Primary Source: Proceedings from the North Carolina Equal Suffrage League
- Primary Source: Alice Duer Miller's "Why We Oppose Votes for Men"
- Our Idea of Nothing at All
- Votes for Women
- Gertrude Weil Urges Suffragists to Action
- North Carolina and the Women's Suffrage Amendment
- Gertrude Weil Congratulates — and Consoles — Suffragists
- Lillian Exum Clement
- Jim Crow and Black Wall Street
- The Birth of "Jim Crow"
- A Sampling of Jim Crow Laws
- Primary Source: Letter Detailing Triracial Segregation in Robeson County
- Primary Source: George White Speaks Out Against Lynchings
- The Great Migration and North Carolina
- Durham's "Black Wall Street"
- W. E. B. Du Bois on Black Businesses in Durham
- The North Carolina Mutual Life Insurance Company
- Charlotte Hawkins Brown
- Primary Source: Charlotte Hawkins Brown's Rules for School
- Primary Source: 1912 Winston Salem Segregation Ordinance Enacted
- Rosenwald Schools in North Carolina
- Black Student Activism in the 1920s and 1930s
- The Roaring Twenties
- The Booming Twenties
- How the Twenties Roared in North Carolina
- "Eastern North Carolina for the farmer"
- "Home folks and neighbor people"
- North Carolina Debates Evolution
- Thomas Wolfe
- Asheville Reacts to Look Homeward, Angel
- From Stringbands to Bluesmen: African American Music in the Piedmont
- Hillbillies and Mountain Folk: Early Stringband Recordings
- Jubilee Quartets and the Five Royales: From Gospel to Rhythm & Blues
- The "Flapper"
- Going to the Movies
- Industry and Labor
- The Gastonia Strike (Intro)
- Turn of the 20th Century Technology and Transportation
- The Great Depression and World War II (1929 and 1945)
- Understanding the Great Depression
- Relief, Recovery, and Reform
- Ending Child Labor in North Carolina
- Primary Source: Excerpt of Child Labor Laws in North Carolina
- Primary Source: Statute on Workplace Safety
- The Fair Labor Standards Act
- Tobacco Bag Stringing: Life and Labor in the Depression
- Primary Source: Interviews on Rural Electrification
- Primary Source: Mary Allen Discusses a Farm Family in Sampson County
- The Live at Home Program
- 4-H and Home Demonstration During the Great Depression
- Eugenics in North Carolina
- Primary Source: Records of Eugenical Sterilization in North Carolina
- The Blue Ridge Parkway
- Roads Taken and Not Taken: Images and the Story of the Blue Ridge Parkway “Missing Link"
- The Great Smoky Mountains National Park
- Life During the Depression
- Primary Source: Louella Odessa Saunders on Self-Sufficient Farming
- Primary Source: A Textile Mill Worker's Family
- Primary Source: Juanita Hinson and the East Durham Mill Village
- Primary Source: Begging Reduced to a System
- Primary Source: Working as a Waitress
- Primary Source: Federal Writers' Project, "He never wanted land till now"
- Health and Beauty in the 1930s
- Paul Green
- Paul Green's The Lost Colony
- Krispy Kreme
- Primary Source: Lasting Impacts of the Great Depression
- War Begins
- Fighting the War
- The United States in World War II
- Timeline of World War II: 1942–1945
- The Science and Technology of World War II
- The USS North Carolina
- Midway
- D-Day
- Primary Source: Landing in Europe, Through the Eyes of the Cape Fear
- Liberating France
- Primary Source: Soldier Interview on Battle of the Bulge
- Iwo Jima
- The Soldier's Experience
- Primary Source: Enlisting for Service in World War II
- Primary Source: Basic Training in World War II
- Face to Face with Segregation: African American marines at Camp Lejune
- Primary Source: Black Soldiers on Racial Discrimination in the Army
- Music and Morale
- Primary Source: The Story of a B-17 crew
- Primary Source: Richard Daughtry on Surviving the Blitz
- Primary Source: James Wall on Serving in the Air Force
- Primary Source: Norma Shaver and Serving in the Pacific
- The War at Home
- Primary Source: Roosevelt's Fireside Chat 21
- Primary Source: Roosevelt's Fireside Chat 23
- North Carolina's Wartime Miracle: Defending the Nation
- Japanese-American Imprisonment: Introduction
- Japanese-American Imprisonment: WWII and Pearl Harbor
- Japanese-American Imprisonment: Executive Order 9066 and Imprisonment
- Japanese-American Imprisonment: Prison Camps
- Japanese-American Imprisonment: Legal Challenges
- Japanese-American Imprisonment: Closing Facilities and Life After
- Primary Source: Poster Announcing Japanese American Removal and Relocation
- Rosie the Riveter
- Germans Attack Off of North Carolina's Outer Banks
- Primary Source: Wartime Wilmington, Through the Eyes of the Cape Fear
- Primary Source: Margaret Rogers and Prisoners of War in North Carolina
- Rationing
- War Bonds
- Covering the Beat: UNC in the WWII Era
- Feed a Fighter
- Food for Fighters
- Victory Gardens
- 4-H and Home Demonstration Work during World War II
- Primary Source: 4-H Club Promotional Materials
- Primary Source: 4-H Club Instructions
- Primary Source: Joining a 4-H Club
- Primary Source: Report on 4-H club contributions to the war effort
- Primary Source: North Carolina's Feed a Fighter Contest
- Victory — and After
- Postwar North Carolina (1945-1975)
- Introduction
- The Cold War Begins
- Postwar Life
- The GI Bill
- The Interstate Highway System
- Interstate Highways from the Ground Up
- Changes in Agriculture 1860-
- Growing Tobacco
- The Influence of Radio
- The Grandfather Mountain Highland Games
- The Andy Griffith Show
- Selling North Carolina, One Image at a Time
- More than Tourism: Cherokee, North Carolina, in the Post-War Years
- The Singing on the Mountain
- Scottish Heritage at Linville
- The Harriet-Henderson Textile Workers Union Strike: Defeat for Struggling Southern Labor Unions
- W. Kerr Scott: From Dairy Farmer to Transforming North Carolina Business and Politics
- Governor Terry Sanford: Transforming the Tar Heel State with Progressive Politics and Policies
- The Struggle for Civil Rights, 1930–1959
- Origins of the Civil Rights Movement
- April 1947: Journey of Reconciliation
- The Piedmont Leaf Tobacco Plant Strike, 1946
- Desegregating the Armed Forces
- Primary Source: A Black Officer in an Integrated Army
- Primary Source: The 1950 Senate Campaign
- Alone but Not Afraid: Sarah Keys v. Carolina Coach Company
- The Montgomery Bus Boycott
- The Lumbees Face the Klan
- Robert F. Williams and Black Power in North Carolina
- The NAACP in North Carolina: One Way or Another
- Pauli Murray and 20th Century Freedom Movements
- School Desegregation
- Brown v. Board of Education and School Desegregation
- Primary Source: Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas
- The Pupil Assignment Act: North Carolina's Response to Brown v. Board of Education
- With All Deliberate Speed: The Pearsall Plan
- Perspective on Desegregation in North Carolina: Harry Golden's Vertical Integration Plan
- Primary Source: Billy Graham and Civil Rights
- The Little Rock Nine
- Desegregation Pioneers
- Youth Protest: JoAnne Peerman
- Primary Source: Interview with William Culp
- Primary Source: Swann v. Charlotte-Mecklenburg Board of Education
- The Impact of Busing in Charlotte
- Opposition to Busing
- Perspectives on School Desegregation: Fran Jackson
- Perspectives on School Desegregation: Harriet Love
- Achieving Civil Rights, 1960–1965
- The Civil Rights Movement, 1960–1980
- Sit-Ins
- The Greensboro Sit-Ins
- Primary Source: Picketers Wanted
- The Freedom Riders
- Desegregating Public Accommodations in Durham
- Desegregating Hospitals
- The March on Washington, 1963
- The Precursor: Desegregating the Armed Forces
- The Civil Rights Act of 1964
- The Struggle for Voting Rights
- The Selma-to-Montgomery March
- The Voting Rights Act of 1965
- The Lumbee Organize Against the Ku Klux Klan January 18, 1958: The Battle of Hayes Pond, Maxton, N.C.
- Protest, Change, and Backlash: the 1960s
- Lyndon Johnson and the Great Society
- The North Carolina Fund
- Primary Source: Billy Barnes on Fighting Poverty
- Harold Cooley, Jim Gardner, and the Rise of the Republican Party in the South
- Primary Source: UNC Students Against The Speaker Ban
- Primary Source: Jesse Helms' Viewpoint on the Speaker Ban
- The Women's Movement
- Primary Sources: Segregated Employment Ads
- Primary Source: Bill Hull on Gay Life in Midcentury North Carolina
- The Aftermath of Martin Luther King's Assassination
- Interpreting Historical Figures: Howard Lee
- Interpreting Historical Figures: Senator Sam Ervin
- The Vietnam War
- Outline of the Vietnam War
- The Vietnam War: A Timeline
- Something He Couldn't Write About: Telling My Daddy's Story of Vietnam
- A Soldier's Experience in Vietnam: Herbert Rhodes
- A Soldier's Experience in Vietnam: Tex Howard
- A Soldier's Experience in Vietnam: John Luckey
- A Soldier's Experience in Vietnam: Robert L. Jones
- A Soldier's Experience in Vietnam: Johnas Freeman
- The My Lai Massacre - March 16, 1968
- Anti-War Demonstrations
- Campus Protests
- The Limits of Change: The 1970s
- A Lifetime of Change
- Recent North Carolina
- Introduction
- From Carter to G.W. Bush: U.S. Politics of the Turn of the 20th Century
- Politics, Personalities, and Issues
- The Changing Economy
- The Environment
- The Environmental Justice Movement
- Moving Cape Hatteras Lighthouse
- Coastal Erosion and the Ban on Hard Structures
- The Impact of Hog Farms
- Regulating Hog Farms
- Cane Creek Reservoir
- Air Pollution
- Drought and Development
- The Mountains-to-Sea Trail
- Hugh Morton and North Carolina's Native Plants
- Grandfather Mountain: Commerce and Tourism in the Appalachian Environment
- Hurricane Floyd
- Ten years Later: Remembering Hurricane Floyd's Wave of Destruction
- Hurricane Floyd's Lasting Legacy
- How Does a Hurricane Form?
- Understanding Floods
- Mapping Rainfall and Flooding
- The Evacuation
- Rising Waters
- Damage from Hurricane Floyd
- Floyd and Agriculture
- Cleaning Up After the Flood
- The Problems of Flood Relief
- Preventing Future Floods
- Reclaiming Sacred Ground: How Princeville is Recovering from the Flood of 1999
- Natural Disasters and North Carolina in the second half of the 20th Century
- New North Carolinians
- Appendices
- Appendix A. Reading Primary Sources: an introduction for students
- Appendix B. Wills and inventories: a process guide
- Appendix C. John Lawson
- Appendix D: Rip Van Winkle
- Appendix E: The Confessions of Nat Turner
- Appendix F: Political Parties in the United States
- Appendix G: North Carolina's Governors
- Appendix H. The Election of 1860: Results by State
- Appendix I: Remembering the Revolution
- Appendix J: Reading Narratives of Enslaved People from the WPA interviews
- Appendix K: Organization of Civil War armies
- Appendix L: A March in the Ranks Hard-Prest, and the Road Unknown
- Appendix M: Memorial Day
- Appendix N: Pilot Training Manual for the B-17 Flying Fortress
- Guides for Reading Primary Sources
- Reading Primary Sources: thinking about thinking
- Reading Primary Sources: Letters
- Reading Primary Sources: Newspaper Advertisements
- Reading Primary Sources: Newspaper Editorials
- Reading Primary Sources: Narratives of Enslaved People
- Reading Newspapers: Reader Contributions
- Reading Newspapers: Factual Reporting
- Analyzing Political Cartoons
- About ANCHOR
Table of Contents
- Introduction to NC Digital History, ANCHOR
- Two Worlds: Prehistory, Contact, and the Lost Colony (to 1600)
- Colonial North Carolina (1600-1763)
- Revolutionary North Carolina (1763-1790)
- Early National (1790-1836)
- Antebellum (1836–1860)
- Civil War and Reconstruction (1860-1876)
- North Carolina in the New South (1870-1900)
- North Carolina in the Early 20th Century (1900–1929)
- The Great Depression and World War II (1929 and 1945)
- Postwar North Carolina (1945-1975)
- Recent North Carolina
- Appendices
- Guides for Reading Primary Sources
- About ANCHOR
Desegregating Hospitals
Credit text
George Simkins interviewed by Karen Karen Kruse Thomas, April 6, 1997. Interview R-0018. Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007), Southern Historical Collection, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
People
Lawson Andrew Scruggs, one of the first three black doctors licensed by the state of North Carolina, practiced at Leonard (Shaw) and St. Agnes Hospitals.
Places
Table of Contents
- Introduction to NC Digital History, ANCHOR
- Two Worlds: Prehistory, Contact, and the Lost Colony (to 1600)
- Colonial North Carolina (1600-1763)
- Revolutionary North Carolina (1763-1790)
- Early National (1790-1836)
- Antebellum (1836–1860)
- Civil War and Reconstruction (1860-1876)
- North Carolina in the New South (1870-1900)
- North Carolina in the Early 20th Century (1900–1929)
- The Great Depression and World War II (1929 and 1945)
- Postwar North Carolina (1945-1975)
- Recent North Carolina
- Appendices
- Guides for Reading Primary Sources
- About ANCHOR