The Museum of History produces the Tar Heel Junior Historian magazine biannually. Its purpose is to present the history of North Carolina to students in grades 4 through 12 through with scholarly articles and images on a range of historical topics. Many articles about civil rights have appeared in issues of Tar Heel Junior Historian; click on the links below to read them yourself and print them out for your students. Links to the same articles are included throughout the workshop where appropriate. Adobe Acrobat is required to open the files. Some of the files are large and may take some time to open.

African American Rights

• "Assigned Places," (segregation in the 1920s) The Twenties Roar through North Carolia issue (Spring 2004)
• "African Americans in Union-Occupied Eastern North Carolina during the Civil War," The Civil War at Home issue (Fall 2000)
• "The Two Black Classes of Antebellum North Carolina," Antebellum Life issue (Fall 1996)
• "Henry Frye, Chief Justice," Legends of North Carolina issue (Spring 2000)
• "The Supreme Court Rules: Breaking a Color-Coded Tradition" and "Learning in the Age of Desegregation," Learning issue (Fall 1997)
• "George Henry White," (African American leader in the state's Republican party at the end of the 19th century) Turn of the Twentieth Century issue (Fall 1999)
• "Politics at the Turn of the Century," Turn of the Twentieth Century issue (Fall 1999)
• "The African American State Fair," Celebrating North Carolina's State Fair issue (Fall 2002)
• "Touching Base with a Tuskegee Airman," Exploring the Air: Pioneers of Aviation issue (Fall 2003)
• "Wheeler Airlines: An American First," (first airlines owned by an African American) Exploring the Air: Pioneers of Aviation issue (Fall 2003)
• "A Tarboro Legacy: Dr. Milton Quigless," (African American physician who opened a clinic in 1947) Experiences in Health and Healing issue (Spring 1997)
• "Civil Rights: Crossing the Color Line...," The 60's issue (Fall 1990)
• "Education for Black and White: Separate or Together?," The 60's issue (Fall 1990)
• "First Steps to Freedom: North Carolina's Emancipation Experience," African American Life issue (Fall 1995)
• "What One Young African American Woman Could Do: The Story of Dr. Charlotte Hawkins Brown and the Palmer Memorial Institute," African American Life issue (Fall 1995)
• "Middle-Class Durham during the Age of Jim Crow," African American Life issue (Fall 1995)
• "'We Were All Brothers and Sisters Then': The Grassroot Civil Rights Movement in Hyde County," African American Life issue (Fall 1995)
• "The Great Migration and North Carolina," Immigration and Migration issue (Spring 2006)
• "Viewpoints: Black and White Apart: Durham and Greensboro Sit-Ins," U.S. Constitution issue (Fall 1988)
• "Viewpoints: Black and White Apart: Charlotte School Busing," U.S. Constitution issue (Fall 1988)
• "Conceived in Liberty: The Fourteenth Amendment and the Bill of Rights," U.S. Constitution issue (Fall 1988)

American Indian Rights

• "American Indians and the Civil War," The Civil War at Home issue (Fall 2000)
• "A Class All Their Own: Native Americans in Antebellum North Carolina," Antebellum Life issue (Fall 1996)
• "Henry Berry Lowry Lives Forever," Legends of North Carolina issue (Spring 2000)
• "The Lumbee Indians: Searching for Justice, Searching for Identity," North Carolina's Coastal Plain issue (Spring 1989)
• "Laying the Foundation: American Indian Education in North Carolina," American Indians in North Carolina issue (Fall 2005)
• "North Carolina's American Indians in World War II," American Indians in North Carolina issue (Fall 2005)

Women's Rights

• "A New Woman Emerges," (women in the 1920s) Spring 2004 issue
• "Mary Hilliard Hinton and the Antisuffragists," Women's History issue (Spring 1994)
• "The Equal Rights Amendment: Yea or Nay?," Women's History issue (Spring 1994)
• "The Economic Status of Women," Women's History issue (Spring 1994)
• "Valeria Lynch Lee," (public television moderator and advocate for women's and minority rights) Women's History issue (Spring 1994)
• "Woman's Suffrage and Its Impact on Government," Government and Elections issue (Fall 2001)
• "The Equal Rights Amendment," Government and Elections issue (Fall 2001)

Civil Rights for Other Groups

• "Contemporary Migration in North Carolina," Migration and Settlement in North Carolina issue (Spring 1995)
• "Just One Lady—How Dorothea Dix Fought for One Antebellum Social Reform," (how Dix fought for adequate care of the mentally ill) Antebellum Life issue (Fall 1996)

Since 1953, the Tar Heel Junior Historian Association (THJHA) has been encouraging the study of local and state history by North Carolina's young people. For more information or to join the club, go to http://www.ncmuseumofhistory.org/thjha/index.html.

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