Kenneth Robert Janken is professor of African American and Diaspora studies at the University of North Carolina and director of the UNC Center for the Study of the American South. He is the author of Rayford W. Logan and the Dilemma of the African American Intellectual and White: The Biography of Walter White, Mr. NAACP, among other titles.
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In February 1971 racial tension surrounding school desegregation in Wilmington, North Carolina, culminated in four days of violence and skirmishes between white vigilantes and black residents. The turmoil resulted in two deaths, six injuries, more than $5... SEE MORE