North Carolina in the 1950s Book

Originally published as hugely popular serialized articles for Our State magazine, this book chronicles events in North Carolina in the 1950s. Author Philip Gerard focuses each chapter on a lively and illuminating set of events in the era such as the fight for recognition by the Lumbee tribe, the formation of Research Triangle Park, and the birth of the civil rights era in Greensboro.

This book is the second in a series of small, richly illustrated books about North Carolina history through the decades.