North Carolina in the 1950s : The Decade in Motion (North Carolina through the Decades)

Gerard, Philip

John F Blair Publisher（2023/04発売）

• 製本 Hardcover:ハードカバー版／ページ数 132 p.
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9781949467925
• DDC分類 975.6043

Full Description

Notable events of the 1950s in North Carolina, the second book in this North Carolina history series.This book is the second in a series of small, richly illustrated books about North Carolina history through the decades. Originally published as hugely popular serialized articles for Our State magazine, this book chronicles events in North Carolina in the 1950s—a decade which began with a postwar boom in transportation, travel, and progress while some North Carolinians also began to speak out for their rightful piece of prosperity and freedom. The volume is not a textbook overview of the state's history. Rather, each chapter focuses on a lively and illuminating set of events in the era such as the fight for recognition by the Lumbee Tribe, the opening of an art museum with a collection owned by the people of North Carolina, the formation of Research Triangle Park, and the birth of the civil rights era at a small lunch counter.

The book contains color vintage photographs and illustrations. The author—writer, professor, and musician, Philip Gerard—has published widely, including an iconic novel about the Wilmington coup of 1898, Cape Fear Rising, and is beloved in North Carolina, especially among Our State readers.

Contents

Introduction: The 1950s—The Decade in Motion

Fast Food and Flicks: At the Drive-In

Seabreeeze: Rythm and Beach Music

UNC on the Air

A Man and His Mountain

Justice in Black and White

Piedmont Airlines Takes Flight

Long Live the Lumbee 

The Shape of Things To Come

The Art of the Impossible

The Squire of Haw River

Last Train Out