The Civil Rights Movement Beyond 1968- Griggs vs. Duke Power

10/10/2026

10/10/2026

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10/04/2026

I’ll be joining Carolina K-12 and Facing History & Ourselves for a professional learning experience that brings the Delano grape strike and Griggs v. Duke Power together to examine organizing, workers’ rights, and solidarity.

I’ll be leading the Griggs portion of the session, sharing the story of the Black workers, families, churches, community members, NAACP, and legal advocates whose efforts challenged discriminatory employment practices and helped change the law.

For those who know this project, you know that Griggs vs. Duke Power Company has never been just a Supreme Court case.

It is a Rockingham County story.

It is a Black history story.

It is a workers’ rights story.

And it is a story about what can happen when people come together and refuse to accept an unjust system.

I’m looking forward to sharing this history with educators and showing how local history can open the door to a much larger understanding of American history.

The people of Rockingham County helped change the nation.
Their story deserves to be remembered—and shared.

10/01/2026

09/11/2026

History becomes especially powerful when we put histories in conversation with one another.

On October 16th, I’ll be joining Carolina K-12 and Facing History & Ourselves to explore the Delano Grape Strike and Boycott and connect that history to my ongoing research on Griggs v. Duke Power.

The workshop will look at the strategies farm workers used to build solidarity over a five-year struggle in the 1960s. We’ll also consider what local history can teach us about organizing, community, and the pursuit of workers’ rights.

Different places. Different struggles. Yet both histories invite us to ask what communities can accomplish when people organize, build solidarity, and persist in the pursuit of workers’ rights.

I’m looking forward to bringing what I’ve learned through the Griggs research into this conversation and to learning from educators and historians who are also thinking about how we connect local stories to larger histories.

There is always more history to uncover.

04/14/2026

Deadline extended!

There is still time to apply for Africa to Carolina, a powerful K–12 teacher field experience exploring North Carolina’s transatlantic enslavement history through place-based learning in Wilmington and Winnabow.

This immersive professional development opportunity invites educators to deepen their understanding of this history and consider meaningful ways to bring it into the classroom.

📍 Wilmington and Winnabow, NC
🗓 July 7–8
✔ 1.5 CEUs
✔ $150 stipend

The application deadline has been extended to April 15. If you have been thinking about it, now is the time.

Apply here: go.unc.edu/africatocarolina26