Hail to UNCP! A 125-Year History of the University of North Carolina at Pembroke

by Lawrence T. Locklear, Linda E. Oxendine, David K. Eliades, Scott Bigelow (Introduction)

Overview

Hail to UNCP! recounts one of the unique and compelling stories in higher education--a school founded in 1887 to train Lumbee Indian teachers that evolved into a four-year university and constituent institution of the internationally acclaimed University of North Carolina system.

The University of North Carolina at Pembroke had humble beginnings with fifteen students and one teacher. As the only state- supported, four-year college for American Indians in the nation (1939-1953), the institution successfully navigated the challenges of internal and tribal factionalism, budget crises, Jim Crow segregation, the Great Depression, integration, and rapid expansion, to grow into a campus with more than 6,200 students--recognized today as the most diverse in North Carolina and the southern United States.

The book details the extraordinary spirit of the institution and the courageous foresight of Lumbee leaders who struggled to establish the school during challenging times following the Civil War and Reconstruction.

Hail to UNCP! also focuses on what the institution has meant, and still means, to the Lumbee people, to students and alumni past and present, and to the people of the area it serves. This remark- able story highlights luminaries from the institution's history and the defining moments that shaped the interconnected histories of the institution, the Lumbee and other Indian peoples, and southeastern North Carolina.

Product Details

BN ID:	2940149344765
Publisher:	The University of North Carolina at Pembroke
Publication date:	04/22/2014
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	375
File size:	19 MB
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About the Author

David K. Eliades (1938–2007) was a professor of history and American Indian studies at the University of North Carolina at Pembroke from 1967 to 2001. Eliades coauthored two seminal works: The Only Land I Know: A History of the Lumbee Indians (1974) with Dr. Adolph L. Dial ’43, and Pembroke State University: A Centennial History (1986) with Dr. Linda Ellen Oxendine. He earned a BA in journalism and history from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 1961, an MA in history from East Carolina University in 1963, and a PhD in history from the University of South Carolina in 1981.

Lawrence T. Locklear ’05, ’12 has been employed at the University of North Carolina at Pembroke since 1999, serving as the university web publisher since 2000. In 2007 Locklear appeared in The History Channel’s video documentary Aftershock: Beyond the Civil War, where he provided historical commentary about Lumbee hero Henry Berry Lowrie, his multiracial gang, and their fight for social and legal justice in Robeson County between 1864 and 1874. His essay “Down by the Ol’ Lumbee: An Investigation into the Origin and Use of the Word ‘Lumbee’ prior to 1952” was published in Native South (2010). Between 2005 and 2008 Locklear served on the Lumbee Tribal Council, including two terms as speaker. He earned a BA in history from North Carolina State University in 1996, and a BA in American Indian studies and an MPA in public administration from UNC Pembroke in 2012 and 2005, respectively.

Linda E. Oxendine is a professor emeritus of American Indian studies at the University of North Carolina at Pembroke, where she taught from 1989 until her retirement in 2006. Oxendine teaches part-time in American Indian studies at UNC Pembroke. She served as the director and curator of UNC Pembroke’s Native American Resource Center from 1982 to 1986 and chair of the American Indian Studies Department from 1989 to 2006. A noted Lumbee scholar, Oxendine coauthored Pembroke State University: A Centennial History (1986) with Dr. David K. Eliades. She has written about a variety of topics, including Indian education and Lumbee history and culture, and has worked with several tribal, state, and national agencies. Oxendine earned a BA in mathematics from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 1967, an MA in educational administration from Penn State University in 1973, and a PhD in American studies from the University of Minnesota in 1992.