THIS SIDE OF THE RIVER: Self-determination and Survival in the Oldest Black Town in America (Princeville, NC), North Carolina Language and Life Project at NC State University
— $20.00 DVD
THIS SIDE OF THE RIVER incorporates interviews with Princeville residents and North Carolina historians to tell the story of Princeville , N.C. Settled by freed slaves in 1865, Princeville was the first town in the United States incorporated by African Americans, in 1885. The story of Princeville’s survival through racial prejudice, economic hardship and near-permanent destruction by the flood from Hurricane Floyd in 1999, is an important and previously untold piece of American history. This is a story of African people proudly transforming the discarded land of their captors into a safe haven for resistance and self-expression. Within an ever-changing southern Black identity, the people of Princeville demonstrated communal support through religious, political and economic self-determination.
Curriculum Applications: 4th & 8th Grade Social Studies

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