Practitioner Perspective

Recovering Lost Local History: The Daily Record Project

Authors

• • Jeremy Hilburn
  • University of North Carolina Wilmington View ROR record for University of North Carolina Wilmington. (opens in new tab)
• • Tana Oliver
  • D.C. Virgo Preparatory Academy
• • Leyna Varnum
  • Williston Middle School
• • Donyell L Roseboro
  • University of North Carolina - Wilmington

Abstract

This practitioner perspective describes a collaboration between students and teachers at three middle schools, along with community partners, to recover and digitize news stories from The Daily Record, an African American owned newspaper that was attacked and burned in the 1898 Wilmington coup d’état.

Keywords: middle school, democracy in action, newspaper archives, displacement, Wilmington 1898

How to Cite: Hilburn, J. , Oliver, T. , Varnum, L. & Roseboro, D. L. (2019) “Recovering Lost Local History: The Daily Record Project”, Middle Grades Review. 5(3). doi: https://doi.org/10.70793/mgr.169