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Advisors and Directors

Board of Advisors

Honorary Chairs

Governor James B. Hunt, Jr.
Governor James G. Martin

Co-Chairs

James A. Anderson, Ph.D., Fayetteville
James R. Leutze, Ph.D., Wilmington

Deborah Barnes, Ph.D., Greensboro, NC
Reginald M. “Reggie” Barton, Jr., New York, NY
Frank Block, Wilmington, NC
Mark Bradley, Ph.D., Alexandria, VA
Jimmy Braswell, Hamilton, NC
Martha Brown, Winston-Salem, NC
Norwood Bryan, Fayetteville, NC
O. Vernon Burton, Ph.D., Ninety Six, SC
John Caldwell, Fayetteville, NC
Jonathan Charleston, Fayetteville, NC
Kevin Cherry, Ph.D., Raleigh, NC
Jeffrey J. Crow, Ph.D., Cary, NC
Angela Crumpler, Garner, NC
William A. Darity, Jr., Ph.D., Durham, NC
Morgan P. Dickerman, Wilson, NC
Samuel B. Dixon, Edenton, NC
John Duval, Ph.D., Fayetteville, NC
Jubal Early, Charlotte, NC
Lisbeth “Libba” Evans, Winston-Salem, NC
Dr. Matthew A. Farina, Southern Pines, NC
Charen Fink, Southport, NC
Chris Fonvielle, Ph.D., Wilmington, NC
David Goldfield, Ph.D., Charlotte, NC
Demetrius Haddock, Fayetteville, NC
R. Phillip Haire, Sylva, NC
Michael Hill, Raleigh, NC
Frank B. Holding, Jr., Raleigh, NC
Charles Broadfoot Holmes, New York, NY
Kenneth B. Howard, Raleigh, NC
Terry Hutchens, Fayetteville, NC
Adrienne Israel, Ph.D., Greensboro, NC
Thomas Lambeth, Winston-Salem, NC
Michelle Lanier, Raleigh, NC
Ken Lautzenheiser, Tarboro, NC
Karl McAlister, Dillon, SC
Gerald Prokopowicz, Ph.D., Greenville, NC
Joel W. Rose, Clinton, NC
Wallace L. Rueckel, Jr., Southport, NC
Don Saunders, Greensboro, NC
Jordan Shaw, Charlotte, NC
Brig. Gen. (US Army Ret.) Steve Smith, Hillsborough, NC
Musette Steck, Southport, NC
Ron Sunderland, Fayetteville, NC
Angela Thorpe, Raleigh, NC
Josephine “Josie” Walker, Raleigh, NC
Darin Waters, Ph.D., Raleigh, NC
Harry Watson, Ph.D., Chapel Hill, NC

Board of Directors

Chair:  John M. “Mac” Healy, Fayetteville
Vice Chair:  Mary Lynn Bryan, Fayetteville
Treasurer (nominated):  Tim Richardson, Fayetteville
Secretary:  Margaret Dickson, Raleigh

Charles Anderson, Fayetteville
James A. Anderson, Ph.D., Fayetteville
John Caldwell, Fayetteville
Demetrius Haddock, Fayetteville

Robert H. Kluttz, Jr., Winston-Salem
Ted Kunstling, MD, Raleigh
James Leutze, Ph.D., Wilmington
O. Ray Manning, Jr., Fayetteville

Michael McElreath, Ph.D. (Ex Officio), Carrboro
Benjamin F. Speller, Jr., Ph.D., Edenton
Kelli Cardenas Walsh, Ph.D., Fayetteville

 

Antebellum pic - NC History Center on the Civil War, Emancipation & Reconstruction
Antebellum

Before the Civil War, the region’s geography, population, economics, and laws shaped the diverse lives of North Carolinians. Enslaved and free Black people rebelled against the institution of enslavement through violent revolt...

Civil War pic - Post Reconstruction pic - Antebellum pic - NC History Center on the Civil War, Emancipation & Reconstruction
The Civil War

After the election of Republican candidate Abraham Lincoln in November 1860, South Carolina and six other states seceded before he took office, but President Buchanan did not initiate hostilities...

Post Reconstruction - NC History Center on the Civil War, Emancipation & Reconstruction
Emancipation

In May 1861, General Benjamin F. Butler gave semi-protected status and partial freedom to enslaved people who escaped to Union lines from Confederate territory, considering them essentially “contraband of...

Reconstruction pic - Civil War pic - Post Reconstruction pic - Antebellum pic - NC History Center on the Civil War, Emancipation & Reconstruction
Reconstruction

President Andrew Johnson’s limited Presidential Reconstruction prioritized reconciliation between the North and South. Its effect was to restore the status quo regarding old wealth and power in the South and the political oppression of...

Post Reconstruction pic - Antebellum pic - NC History Center on the Civil War, Emancipation & Reconstruction
Post-Reconstruction

In the 1880s, struggling farmers united in the Farmers’ Alliance, a national movement that sought agricultural reform and railroad oversight, and formed groups throughout the South...

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