Kelly Dunbar is the Gilder Lehrman American History Teacher of the Year, representing North Carolina.

Kelly Dunbar comes on the show to talk about her area of research and fascination  - Black women pioneers  in North Carolina right after the American Civil War.

Dunbar’s Research Presentation:
https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1Wgds3aOKSYxvKzQ6m3zW_AgVNmfASurJDAQZiU-6b2c/edit

Must Reads from Dunbar:
Mary Othella Burnette, Lige of the Black Walnut Tree

Darwin J. Waters, "Life Beneath the Veneer:  The Black Community in Asheville,
North Carolina from 1793 to 1900". (He is an amazing historian and has a radio show called "The Harvey and Waters Show".

Diana Ramey Berry and Kali Nicole Gross, A Black Woman's History of the United States

Sarah Judson, "Civil Rights and Civic Health:  African American Women's Public Health Work in Early Twentieth-Century Atlanta" NWSA Journal

https://mountainx.com/arts/midwives-and-doulas-past-and-present-in-wnc/

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