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November 10, 2022 32 mins

Kelly Dunbar is the Gilder Lehrman American History Teacher of the Year, representing North Carolina.

Kelly Dunbar comes on the show to talk about her area of research and fascination  - Black women pioneers  in North Carolina right after the American Civil War.

Dunbar’s Research Presentation:
https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1Wgds3aOKSYxvKzQ6m3zW_AgVNmfASurJDAQZiU-6b2c/edit

Must Reads from Dunbar:
Mary Othella Burnette, Lige of the Black Walnut Tree

Darwin J. Waters, "Life Beneath the Veneer:  The Black Community in Asheville,
North Carolina from 1793 to 1900". (He is an amazing historian and has a radio show called "The Harvey and Waters Show".

Diana Ramey Berry and Kali Nicole Gross, A Black Woman's History of the United States

Sarah Judson, "Civil Rights and Civic Health:  African American Women's Public Health Work in Early Twentieth-Century Atlanta" NWSA Journal

https://mountainx.com/arts/midwives-and-doulas-past-and-present-in-wnc/

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