Welcome to the Yadkin Valley History Spotlight, where we’ll be taking a brief look at the history of various topics, events, persons, or locations connected to the Yadkin Valley. We’ll tackle common genealogy or research requests, or cool “did you know?” moments.
Here are the links mentioned in the podcast:
NCLive.org
- DigitalNC
- HeritageQuest
- Historic North Carolina Digital Newspaper Collection
- History Study Center
- NCPedia
- North American Women's Letters and Diaries
Resources in History Room at the Library
- FOLDER - Yadkin County - People of Color, Free Negroes in the 1860 Census
- FOLDER - Yadkin County -African American history
- Free African Americans of North Carolina and Virginia by Paul Heinegg
- The Black Experience in Revolutionary NC by Jeffrey J. Crow
- People of Color of Yadkin County, NC by Marcellene Blackburn Lindsey and Wanda Carter Craaybeek
- Three year books from the African American high school -- years 1956-58.
- The Heritage of Blacks in NC, Vol 1 (1990) by Linda Simmons-Henry, Dr. Philip N. Henry, and Dr. Carol M. Speas, with a foreword by Alex Haley. https://heritagebooks.com/products/101-n0012
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