David Cecelski, Ph.D.
W: 919-490-0238
cecelskid@earthlink.net
Travel Regions: Statewide
David Cecelski (Ph.D., Harvard) is an independent historian and writer who has taught at Duke University, UNC at Chapel Hill, and East Carolina University. A native of Craven County, he is the author of Along Freedom Road: Hyde County, North Carolina, and the Fate of Black Schools in the South; A Historians Coast: Adventures Into the Tidewater Past; Waterman's Song: Slavery and Freedom in the Maritime South, as well as co-editor of Democracy Betrayed: The Wilmington Race Riot of 1898 and Its Legacy and William Singleton's Recollections of My Slavery Days. He edits the popular oral history series, "Listening to History," for the Raleigh News and Observer.
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The Wilmington Race Riot of 1898 and Its Legacy
This lecture tells the story of the 1898 racial violence that killed dozens of African-Americans and overturned the city government. It discusses how the event in Wilmington's black history has been remembered, focusing on the life of Abraham H. Galloway, a fugitive slave from Wilmington who became a Union spy, a leader of the freed people, a Colonel of a black militia that fought the Ku Klux Klan, and one of the state's first black senators.
People That Do Right: Stories from the Civil Rights Movement
In this presentation, Dr. Cecelski draws on stories of the civil rights movement in eastern North Carolina between World War II and roughly 1975. This lecture is based on historical research from Dr. Cecelski's first book, Along Freedom Road, and from his popular oral history series, "Listening to History," that is published monthly in the Raleigh News and Observer. He will focus on the local, usually unheralded black activists who were at the forefront of the freedom struggle in North Carolina, as well as on the local white citizens who, at great risk, dared to support their African American neighbors' struggles for equality, justice, and dignity.
Requirements for Programs: none
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