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William Churton
William Churton was a white colonial surveyor and cartographer. Born in England, he arrived in colonial North Carolina in 1748 and began working for the Granville Land Office in Edenton. From then until his death in 1767, Churton played a significant role in surveying and mapping the land of colonial North Carolina, contributing to the…
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William B. Aycock
William Brantley Aycock was a white educator and legal scholar. Born in Lucama, North Carolina, in 1915, he received his bachelor’s degree in education from North Carolina State University and his master’s degree in history from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. After working as a public school teacher and serving in the…
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Paul Green
Paul Green was a white dramatist, writer, and professor who was born in rural Harnett County, North Carolina, in 1894. As a child, Green worked on his family’s farm and immersed himself in literature and music. To save money to attend the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, he for a time worked as…
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Betty Smith
Betty Smith was a white novelist and playwright born in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, New York, in 1896, a grandchild of German immigrants. Although she never received a high school diploma or earned a college degree, Smith took classes at the University of Michigan and was admitted to a playwriting program at the Yale Drama School. She…
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Hillsborough Recorder
The Hillsborough Recorder was a widely-read newspaper in Hillsborough, Orange County, and beyond that was published from 1820 to 1879. The Recorder was established and published by Connecticut native Dennis Heartt at a time when there were not many newspapers being printed in central and western North Carolina; the Recorder became what one historian called…
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Carolina PlayMakers at UNC-Chapel Hill
The Carolina PlayMakers were founded in 1918 by Frederick H. Koch, a white professor of dramatic literature and playwriting at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Koch established the group as a means through which his students could experience their written work performed. Koch and the drama program attracted numerous playwrights, novelists, short-story…
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James Taylor
James Taylor is a white acclaimed singer-songwriter. Born in Boston in 1948, he moved to the Morgan Creek neighborhood of Chapel Hill, North Carolina, with his family as a young child. Taylor spent his formative years in Chapel Hill, attended local schools, and played music with his siblings and friends. In 1968, he released his…
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Kay Kyser
James Kern “Kay” Kyser was a white big band leader, performer, and radio and television personality who was born in Rocky Mount, North Carolina, in 1905. As a student at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, he was a cheerleader, member of the Carolina PlayMakers, and leader of a local band. While not…
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Thomas Wolfe
Thomas Wolfe was a white novelist and playwright who was born in Asheville, North Carolina, in 1900. At just 15 years old, he enrolled at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where he joined the Carolina PlayMakers and wrote plays with company leader and drama professor Frederick Koch. Wolfe later attended Harvard University,…
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William Hooper
William Hooper was a white attorney, judge, politician, and one of three North Carolina signers of the Declaration of Independence. Although his father was a staunch Loyalist, Hooper eventually came to support Patriot causes and American independence after moving from Massachusetts, where he was born and raised, to Wilmington, North Carolina. In Wilmington, he became…
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