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ASHEVILLE A brief look at the city of Asheville North Carolina from the 1700s to the present. The history of Asheville begins early in the 1500s with the Cherokee Indians occupying the area. In 1776, a force of colonists destroyed many Cherokee villages in the area, which later lead to the Trail of Tears. As the amount of Cherokee Indians in the area became few, Irish/Scottish pioneers immigrated to the area and become the first settlers to live in the area. A pioneer family in 1784 located to a valley, now called Buncombe County and live in the Swannanoa Valley region known as “Eden Land.” A permanent settlement was established and in 1797 the area received its name, Asheville, in honor of the Governor Samuel Ashe (Asheville Now). In 1828 the Buncombe Turnpike was completed after four year of labor which helped the economy of the area and also marked the period of the first African American migration to North Carolina as workers for the construction (History Timeline of Asheville). This turnpike attracted many wealthy vacationers who began to build summer homes in Western North Carolina. The railroad arrived in 1880 and the population of Asheville doubled less than three years after the arrival of the first train (United States). Asheville grew rapidly becoming home to many…

The state has already seen how horrible the new Bathroom Bill has been for North Carolina, and with riots in major cities such as Charlotte, Raleigh and Chapel Hill they are doing what they can to rectify the situation. The governor has already placed an order for the bill to go back to court to be argued against its validity. North Carolina is home to some of the best colleges in the United States and some of the most famous government wildlife parks and mountain ranges, the state used to be…

In 2015, for the first time in state history, the Supreme Court of North Carolina determined that non-public schools could qualify as constitutionally eligible recipients of public taxpayer dollars. The court in Hart v. State determined that the expenditure in question, the Opportunity Scholarship Program (“the Program”), met the standards required for designation as a public purpose. The Program consisted of a $4,200 per year voucher scholarship set for distribution to eligible students who…

Frank Porter Graham was much more than just a simple North Carolinian he was a former North Carolinian senator, high school teacher, college professor, former Marine Corps lieutenant, former UNC president, liberalist, activist, and former United Nations board member. During Graham’s climax in his career North Carolina was on the verge of one of the most important changes of its time, the civil rights movement. To begin with we will be looking into Grahams’ life as he played the many roles he had…

impact. For me, without the combined influences of my family history, american culture, environmental surroundings, and charter school education, I would not be a health conscience, science driven, and degree-seeking student. I come from a family that places little value on education and has always struggled monetarily. My father, who grew up in rural North Carolina, was one of the first people in his family to graduate from high school, and is the only one to have attained a college degree. He…

even visited him once in North Carolina. The book, From Slavery to Freedom: A History of Negro Americans, now in its ninth printing has sold more than three million copies worldwide since its appearing in 1947, and has been translated into multiple languages, including French, Indian, German, Chinese, and Japanese. The work became and remained the preeminent history of African Americans since its initial publication, it is a great reference exploring the contributions and experience of African…

the most important events in Greensboro’s history but it was also one of the most important events in the history of the Civil Rights Movement. Joseph McNeil, Franklin McCain, Ezell Blair Jr. and David Richmond were the ones who sat down at the lunch counter on February 1st, 1960. They were young college students attending North Carolina Agricultural and Technical College. They all had one goal in common and that was to change racist and discriminatory policies at the local Woolworth. Every day…

As every college student I plan on working extremely hard for the highest G.P.A possible. I have started off my freshman year on the right foot and hopefully I continue on the right path towards success. This school year with the help of my peer leader and my academic mentor, I have decided to also major in sports management due my passion of analyzing sports as well as managing the business side of things. Additionally, I have greatly appreciated my student mentors and shown me that leadership…

generalization, the same types of affects have been taking place in North Carolina over the years. In doing some research about how this impacts our own state I have learned through the N.C. Department of Commerce’s 2016 Employer Needs Survey, more than one-third or 39% of respondents from among the 1,900 businesses surveyed across every North Carolina county concluded to have had difficulty in filling positions in the past year (Salamido, 2016). CONS: The article touched on climate as a vital…

Almost immediately after the uprising passed, not just the city of Wilmington, but rather the entire state of North Carolina enacted laws that began the Jim Crow era and rescinded all of the progressive statutes passed under the Reconstruction government. The fact that only one major massacre was required to activate this change demonstrates just how high the tensions were boiling. The election of 1900 passed quickly and ended with an overwhelming Democratic win, mainly because blacks and other…