On Thursday, September 23, 2021,Congressman Madison Cawthorn held a Virtual Roundtable on Flooding Assistance with representatives of four of the agencies assisting the victims of the recent flooding event due to the remnants of Tropical Storm Fred that caused extensive flooding in Haywood, Buncombe, and Transylvania Counties on August 17th. A federal disaster was declared on September 17th that allowed federal resources and funds to be used in recovery efforts. If you have problems with getting assistance, contact Madison Cawthorn's office at https://cawthorn.house.gov/contact or at at one of the following office locations:
Washington DC Office
102 Cannon House Office Building
Washington, DC 20515
Phone: (202) 225-6401
Hendersonville District Office
200 North Grove Street
Suite 121
Hendersonville, NC 28792
Phone: (828) 435-7310
Burnsville District Office
113 Green Mountain Drive
Burnsville, NC 28714
Phone: (828) 808-2148
Franklin District Office
5 West Main Street, Office 330
Franklin, NC 28734
Phone: (828) 452-6022
Waynesville District Office
285 N. Main Street, Room 1300
Waynesville, NC 28786
Phone: (828) 452-6022
The participants in the virtual roundtable were,
Joe Stanton, NC Dept of Public Safety, Emergency Management;
John Boyle, Federal coordinating Officer from FEMA; Contact Info (800) 621-3362 or www.disasterassistance.gov
Kathy Cook, Small Business Administration; and
Rob Satterfield of the USDA Farm Service Agency.
The roundtable can be viewed on the video player embedded below:
Virtual Roundtable on Flooding Assistance
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This is a sample ballot of the controversal AB Tech Tax. Notice it doesn't say AB Tech anywhere on it. That's because Senator Martin Nesbitt made it that way. The BC Commissioners want it to go to the counties general fund so the can do with the money as they please. Remember, this is a county wide vote. You vote at the old health department building beside the Radison Hotel. And please vote "against" it. ~Chad Nesbitt, on Facebook
(a) Pursuant to Article V, Sec. 2(5) of the Constitution of North Carolina, the General Assembly confers upon each county in this State the power to levy, within the limitations set out in this section, taxes on property having a situs within the county under the rules and according to the procedures prescribed in the Machinery Act (Chapter 105, Subchapter II).
(b) Each county may levy property taxes without restriction as to rate or amount for the following purposes:
(1) Courts. To provide adequate facilities for and the county's share of the cost of operating the General Court of Justice in the county.
(2) Debt Service. To pay the principal of and interest on all general obligation bonds and notes of the county.
(3) Deficits. To supply an unforeseen deficiency in the revenue (other than revenues of public enterprises), when revenues actually collected or received fall below revenue estimates made in good faith and in accordance with the Local Government Budget and Fiscal Control Act.
(4) Elections. To provide for all federal, State, district and county elections.
(5) Jails. To provide for the operation of a jail and other local confinement facilities.
(6) Joint Undertakings. To cooperate with any other county, city, or political subdivision in providing any of the functions, services, or activities listed in this subsection.
(7) Schools. To provide for the county's share of the cost of kindergarten, elementary, secondary, and post‑secondary public education.
(8) Social Services. To provide for public assistance required by Chapters 108A and 111 of the General Statutes.
(c) Each county may levy property taxes for one or more of the purposes listed in this subsection up to a combined rate of one dollar and fifty cents ($1.50) on the one hundred dollars ($100.00) appraised value of property subject to taxation. Authorized purposes subject to the rate limitation are:
(1) To provide for the general administration of the county through the board of county commissioners, the office of the county manager, the office of the county budget officer, the office of the county finance officer, the office of the county assessor, the office of the county tax collector, the county purchasing agent, and the county attorney, and for all other general administrative costs not allocated to a particular board, commission, office, agency, or activity of the county.
(2) Agricultural Extension. To provide for the county's share of the cost of maintaining and administering programs and services offered to agriculture by or through the Agricultural Extension Service or other agencies.
(3) Air Pollution. To maintain and administer air pollution control programs.
(4) Airports. To establish and maintain airports and related aeronautical facilities.
(5) Ambulance Service. To provide ambulance services, rescue squads, and other emergency medical services.
(6) Animal Protection and Control. To provide animal protection and control programs.
(6a) Arts Programs and Museums. To provide for arts programs and museums as authorized in G.S. 160A‑488.
(6b) Auditoriums, coliseums, and convention and civic centers. To provide public auditoriums, coliseums, and convention and civic centers.
(7) Beach Erosion and Natural Disasters. To provide for shoreline protection, beach erosion control, and flood and hurricane protection.
(8) Cemeteries. To provide for cemeteries.
(9) Civil Preparedness. To provide for civil preparedness programs.
(10) Debts and Judgments. To pay and discharge any valid debt of the county or any judgment lodged against it, other than debts and judgments evidenced by or based on bonds and notes.
(10a) Defense of Employees and Officers. To provide for the defense of, and payment of civil judgments against, employees and officers or former employees and officers, as authorized by this Chapter.
(10b) Economic Development. To provide for economic development as authorized by G.S. 158‑7.1 and G.S. 158‑12.
(11) Fire Protection. To provide fire protection services and fire prevention programs.
(12) Forest Protection. To provide forest management and protection programs.
(13) Health. To provide for the county's share of maintaining and administering services offered by or through the local health department.
(14) Historic Preservation. To undertake historic preservation programs and projects.
(15) Hospitals. To establish, support and maintain public hospitals and clinics, and other related health programs and facilities, or to aid any private, nonprofit hospital, clinic, related facility, or other health program or facility.
(15a) Housing Rehabilitation. To provide for housing rehabilitation programs authorized by G.S. 153A‑376, including personnel costs related to the planning and administration of these programs. This subdivision applies only to counties with a population of 400,000 or more, according to the most recent decennial federal census.
(15b) Housing. To undertake housing programs for low‑ and moderate‑income persons as provided in G.S. 153A‑378.
(16) Human Relations. To undertake human relations programs.
(16a) Industrial Development. To provide for industrial development as authorized by G.S. 158‑7.1.
(17) Joint Undertakings. To cooperate with any other county, city, or political subdivision in providing any of the functions, services, or activities listed in this subsection.
(18) Law Enforcement. To provide for the operation of the office of the sheriff of the county and for any other county law‑enforcement agency not under the sheriff's jurisdiction.
(19) Libraries. To establish and maintain public libraries.
(20) Mapping. To provide for mapping the lands of the county.
(21) Medical Examiner. To provide for the county medical examiner or coroner.
(22) Mental Health. To provide for the county's share of the cost of maintaining and administering services offered by or through the area mental health, developmental disabilities, and substance abuse authority.
(23) Open Space. To acquire open space land and easements in accordance with Article 19, Part 4, Chapter 160A of the General Statutes.
(24) Parking. To provide off‑street lots and garages for the parking and storage of motor vehicles.
(25) Parks and Recreation. To establish, support and maintain public parks and programs of supervised recreation.
(26) Planning. To provide for a program of planning and regulation of development in accordance with Article 18 of this Chapter and Article 19, Parts 3A and 6, of Chapter 160A of the General Statutes.
(26a) Ports and Harbors. To participate in programs with the North Carolina Ports Authority and provide for harbor masters.
(27) Public Transportation. To provide public transportation by rail, motor vehicle, or another means of conveyance other than a ferry, including any facility or equipment needed to provide the public transportation. This subdivision does not authorize a county to provide public roads in the county in violation of G.S. 136‑51.
(27a) Railway Corridor Preservation. To acquire property for railroad corridor preservation as authorized by G.S. 160A‑498.
(28) Register of Deeds. To provide for the operation of the office of the register of deeds of the county.
(28a) Roads. To provide for the maintenance of county roads as authorized by G.S. 153A‑301(d).
(29) Sewage. To provide sewage collection and treatment services as defined in G.S. 153A‑274(2).
(30) Social Services. To provide for the public welfare through the maintenance and administration of public assistance programs not required by Chapters 108A and 111 of the General Statutes, and by establishing and maintaining a county home.
(31) Solid Waste. To provide solid waste collection and disposal services, and to acquire and operate landfills.
(31a) Stormwater. To provide structural and natural stormwater and drainage systems of all types.
(32) Surveyor. To provide for a county surveyor.
(33) Veterans' Service Officer. To provide for the county's share of the cost of services offered by or through the county veterans' service officer.
(34) Water. To provide water supply and distribution systems.
(35) Watershed Improvement. To undertake watershed improvement projects.
(36) Water Resources. To participate in federal water resources development projects.
(37) Armories. To supplement available State or federal funds to be used for the construction (including the acquisition of land), enlargement or repair of armory facilities for the North Carolina National Guard.
(d) With an approving vote of the people, any county may levy property taxes for any purpose for which the county is authorized by law to appropriate money. Any property tax levy approved by a vote of the people shall not be counted for purposes of the rate limitation imposed in subsection (c).
The county commissioners may call a referendum on approval of a property tax levy. The referendum may be held at the same time as any other referendum or election, but may not be otherwise held within the period of time beginning 30 days before and ending 10 days after any other referendum or election to be held in the county and already validly called or scheduled by law at the time the tax referendum is called. The referendum shall be conducted by the county board of elections. The clerk to the board of commissioners shall publish a notice of the referendum at least twice. The first publication shall be not less than 14 days and the second publication not less than seven days before the last day on which voters may register for the referendum. The notice shall state the date of the referendum, the purpose for which it is being held, and a statement as to the last day for registration for the referendum under the election laws then in effect.
The proposition submitted to the voters shall be substantially in one of the following forms:
(1) Shall ____ County be authorized to levy annually a property tax at a rate not in excess of ____ cents on the one hundred dollars ($100.00) value of property subject to taxation for the purpose of ____?
(2) Shall ____ County be authorized to levy annually a property tax at a rate not in excess of that which will produce $____ for the purpose of ____?
(3) Shall ____ County be authorized to levy annually a property tax without restriction as to rate or amount for the purpose of ____?
If a majority of those participating in the referendum approve the proposition, the board of commissioners may proceed to levy annually a property tax within the limitations (if any) described in the proposition.
The board of elections shall canvass the referendum and certify the results to the board of commissioners. The board of commissioners shall then certify and declare the result of the referendum and shall publish a statement of the result once, with the following statement appended: "Any action or proceeding challenging the regularity or validity of this tax referendum must be begun within 30 days after (date of publication)." The statement of results shall be filed in the clerk's office and inserted in the minutes of the board.
Any action or proceeding in any court challenging the regularity or validity of a tax referendum must be begun within 30 days after the publication of the results of the referendum. After the expiration of this period of limitation, no right of action or defense based upon the invalidity of or any irregularity in the referendum shall be asserted, nor shall the validity of the referendum be open to question in any court upon any ground whatever, except in an action or proceeding begun within the period of limitation prescribed herein.
Except for supplemental school taxes and except for tax referendums on functions not included in subsection (c) of this section, any referendum held before July 1, 1973, on the levy of property taxes is not valid for the purposes of this subsection. Counties in which such referendums have been held may support programs formerly supported by voted property taxes within the general rate limitation set out in subsection (c) at any appropriate level and are not subject to the former voted rate limitation.
(e) With an approving vote of the people, any county may increase the property tax rate limitation imposed in subsection (c) and may call a referendum for that purpose. The referendum may be held at the same time as any other referendum or election, but may not be otherwise held within the period of time beginning 30 days before and ending 30 days after any other referendum or election. The referendum shall be conducted by the county board of elections.
The proposition submitted to the voters shall be substantially in the following form: "Shall the property tax rate limitation applicable to ____ County be increased from ____ on the one hundred dollars ($100.00) value of property subject to taxation to ____ on the one hundred dollars ($100.00) value of property subject to taxation? "
If a majority of those participating in the referendum approve the proposition, the rate limitation imposed in subsection (c) shall be increased for the county.
(f) With respect to any of the categories listed in subsections (b) and (c) of this section, the county may provide the necessary personnel, land, buildings, equipment, supplies, and financial support from property tax revenues for the program, function, or service.
(g) This section does not authorize any county to undertake any program, function, joint undertaking, or service not otherwise authorized by law. It is intended only to authorize the levy of property taxes within the limitations set out herein to finance programs, functions, or services authorized by other portions of the General Statutes or by local acts. (1973, c. 803, s. 1; c. 822, s. 2; c. 963; c. 1446, s. 25; 1975, c. 734, s. 17; 1977, c. 148, s. 5; c. 834, s. 3; 1979, c. 619, s. 4; 1981, c. 66, s. 2; c. 562, s. 11; c. 692, s. 1; 1983, c. 511, ss. 1, 2; 1985, c. 589, s. 57; 1987, c. 45, s. 2; c. 697, s. 2; 1989, c. 600, s. 5; c. 625, s. 25; c. 643, s. 1; 1989 (Reg. Sess., 1990), c. 1005, ss. 3‑5; 1991 (Reg. Sess., 1992), c. 764, s. 1; c. 896, s. 1; 1993, c. 378, s. 2; 1997‑502, s. 6; 1999‑366, s. 3; 2002‑159, s. 50(a); 2002‑172, s. 2.4(a); 2003‑416, s. 2; 2009‑281, s. 1.)
This is Gary, from the Buncombe County Bureau of Conservative Thunder, reporting on the Buncombe County Planning Board meeting that occurred earlier this morning.
Despite President Obama being in Asheville, there was business being conducted in the halls of government. The Buncombe County Planning Board met this morning and the video and agenda are below:
Agenda for Buncombe County Planning Board October 17, 2011 9:30 a.m. 30 Valley Street Asheville, NC
1. Call to Order
2. Approval of Agenda
3. Approval of Minutes a. October 3, 2011
4. Discussion of Lighting Standards to be included in the Zoning Ordinance
My name is Gary Jones, a resident of Buncombe County and a member of theConservative Thunder social network of conservative activists and a recent graduate of Thunder Pig's series of classes to produce new conservative bloggers in Western North Carolina.
My news beat and areas of interest include the municipalities in Buncombe County and local issues where conservatives should be getting involved, or are getting involved and doing it in such a manner as to cause more problems than if they hadn't. If you live and work in Buncombe County you know exactly the people I am referencing. They mean well, but are totally tone deaf, ignorant and cannot rub two words together without murdering their native tongue.
This is my inaugural post on Thunder Pig, mirrored on Conservative Thunder, and it concerns a public meeting held by the Town of Black Mountain regarding the potential sale of property to a developer for the purpose of constructing a Walgreens in the Town of Black Mountain.
Cue the socialist horde opposing the deal. But, if you live inside the city limits of any municipality in Buncombe County, you know that this is where the socialists tend to congregate.
AGENDA
1. CALL TO ORDER
2. EXPLANATION OF MEETING LOGISTICS AND PROCEDURE- Mayor Bartlett
3. PRESENTATION OF OFFER TO PURCHASE
A. Marcy Onieal, Town Manager
B. Ron Sneed, Town Attorney
4. CITIZEN COMMENTS
Individuals wishing to address the Board are asked to sign in at the entrance to the board room, indicating the topic(s) or agenda item (s) you wish to address, so that the chair may group speakers according to topic. Comments by any one speaker shall be limited to three minutes per topic. If the topic you wish to discuss pertains to a public hearing scheduled for this meeting, please reserve your comment for the applicable public hearing.
The Buncombe County Planning Board met earlier today and here is the video of that meeting, along with the agenda:
Agenda for
Buncombe County Planning Board
September 19, 2011
9:30 a.m.
30 Valley Street
Asheville, NC
1. Call to Order 2. Approval of Agenda 3. Approval of Minutes a. September 12, 2011 4. Discussion of Lighting Standards to be included in the Zoning Ordinance 5. Discussion of Administrative Changes to the Zoning Ordinance 6. Public Comment 7. Adjourn
Here is material, all available on the Internet, regarding the September 13, 2011 meeting of the Buncombe County Commissioners, beginning with video of the meeting and followed by the agenda. The links will open in a new window or tab and will have an option (if available) to download the PDF at the bottom of the page. This will be a new feature on this blog and my social network. My intent is to eventually hand this project off to someone else in Buncombe County, and they will have posting privileges on this blog and the social network to continue the work...and expand to covering other news in Asheville and Buncombe County as well.
Meeting Agenda
Call To Order
Pledge of Allegiance
Invocation
Discussion / Adjustment / Approval To Follow Agenda
Proposed Use of FY 2012 Rural Operation Assistance Program Funds [PDF] Notice of Hearing [PDF] Proposed Uses of ROAP Funds [PDF] Resolution [PDF]
County Manager's Report
New Business
Buncombe Green Update Environmental Stewardship [PDF] Carbon Footprint & Energy Use [PDF] Energy Use Report [PDF]
Board Appointments
Parks, Recreation and Greenways Advisory Board (3 vacancies -- Owen, N. Buncombe, at large) David Begley -- Owen Chuck Robinson -- N. Buncombe Bruce Youngberg -- N. Buncombe Jennifer Cable -- N. Buncombe Catherine Claussen -- At Large Mike Dale -- At Large Keith Webb -- At Large
Consent Agenda
Approval of Minutes of August 16, 2011 Regular Meeting [PDF]
Resolution Requesting the North Carolina Department of Transportation to Abandon SR 2768 [PDF] Letter of Request [PDF]
Resolution Approving Pyrotechnic Experts for Firework Displays [PDF] Letter of Request [PDF] Insurance [PDF]
Resolution Authorizing the Chairman to Execute Grant Agreement 3-37-0005-040-2011 for the Asheville Regional Airport [PDF] Grant Agreement [PDF]
Resolution Restricting Certain Animals from County Buildings [PDF]
Approval of Amended County Information Technology Policy [PDF]
Approval of Solid Waste Fee Schedule (No changes) [PDF]
Resolution Adopting the Amended Hazard Mitigation Plan for Buncombe County [PDF] Hazard Mitigation Plan [PDF] Pages from Plan [PDF]
Resolution Awarding A Service Firearm to a Retiring Deputy of the Buncombe County Sheriff's Department
John Ogle [PDF] Wayne Fisher [PDF] Tom Vernon [PDF] Chris Gant [PDF] Christi Gallion [PDF] Jon Dies [PDF] Kathy McBride [PDF] Kim Martin [PDF] Steve Oxner [PDF] Chuck Long [PDF]
Grant Projects Ordinance [PDF] Capital Projects Ordinance [PDF] Budget Amendment: Fund 10 --Carry forward encumbrance reserve ($112,576); Transfer funds to Detention Center Capital ($18,500); DSS--Funding for Adult Day Care ($33,621); FosterCare ($10,020); Energy Assistance ($2,214); Linamar Incentive from COA ($1,500,000); Governing Body -Prescription Drug Card Revenues ($5,500) [PDF] Release Report [PDF]
Announcements
The next meeting of the Board will be October 4, 2011
The pranskster who ran the ChadNesbitt Twitter Account is feeling the heat and is shutting the effort down. Here is a post from the TwitLonger account:
On Wednesday 27th October 2010, @chadnesbitt said:
I started the @chadnesbitt account on Twitter as a form of political expression. Twitter is rife with satire accounts, and I considered @chadnesbitt an effective way to draw attention to the antics of one of the most divisive public figures in Buncombe County: Chad Nesbitt, Chair of the Buncombe County Republican Party.
The idea was to satirize the actions of the real Mr Nesbitt by using similar language and statements he is known for. Since the joke only works if it’s clear that @chadnesbittwasn’t representing the real person, I was careful to make sure no reasonable person would confuse the two. Precautions included:
--> An eye-patch on the avatar
--> Spelling errors in the bio
--> A #satire hashtag in the bio
The project was fun at first, but quickly became tedious. I was starting to think it was time to wrap it all up when Mr. Nesbitt announced the Secret Service had asked him questions about the @chadnesbitt account. Allegedly, certain statements I had made could be construed as a threat to the President.
I anxiously waited for a visit or call from the authorities. When none arrived I assumed the Secret Service was merely asking Chad questions they would ask any local political opposition. (eg: “Any crazies we have to watch out for?” “Are you planning a counter-protest?”) One of the questions may have been about the Twitter account - and Chad seized on this as a way to force the hand of local authorities to shut @chadnesbitt down.
I’d like to review, and give my perspective, on the “threatening” tweets. As I do so please keep in mind these are only three out of 200+ innocuous comments.
1) Brainstorming ways 2 disrupt #Shuler event on Saturday. Doing so will make crowd vote #Republican & get me a lot of attention.
2) Oops - my informant tells me the #Clinton visit to #Asheville is on Thursday! :-O My bad! I’m going to have to think fast! :-O
These tweets were made _after_ Chad disrupted a Democratic Party get-out-the-vote rally a few days earlier with one of his street sweepers. The point of the joke was that Chad is more interested in bringing attention to himself and promoting his party, than crafting a reasonable campaign strategy to counter a Clinton visit.
If anyone is going to take the three aforementioned tweets seriously as a threat, they would also have to take these tweets seriously:
4) Yesterday's anti-annexation rally, which I organized all by myself, went amazingly well. I put the call out, and people came. (Oct 13)
5) I now have a secret mole in the DemocRAT camp. (It's Gopher Face with a mustache.) (Oct 12)
Clearly, when taken in context of the entire Twitter account, no reasonable person would assume tweets 1-3 are meant as anything other than satire.
Once President Clinton left town, I committed myself to using @chadnesbitt for at least one more week; primarily to demonstrate to Mr. Nesbitt that I’m not scared of him or his hyperbolic press releases.
As I’ve said publicly via Twitter - If I’m hurting Chad’s feelings or causing him any kind of harm - he should contact me. Although he is a public figure, and I am entirely in my rights to comment on his antics as long as he remains so, a simple “Please stop this, you’re causing distress” would have put my project to a screeching halt. He could still do so via “@bcgop” and/or his personal Twitter account: “@neverleft”. (Note about@neverleft - I was following that account, but he blocked me. He’ll have to unblock in order for him to send a Direct Message.)
Finally, it has come to my attention that Buncombe County may be seeking a subpoena to determine the owner of @chadnesbit.
I have nothing but respect for County Attorney Ron Moore. My only regret in all this is that he may have to waste taxpayer dollars investigating whether there is a legal basis to prosecute a satire account on a public figure.
Mr. Moore, if you’re reading this, please accept my deepest apologies. I’m sure you would much rather be focused on more pressing issues. I am a politically-motivated, peaceable, satirist - with no intent to cause violence to anyone. Hopefully, the next paragraph in this letter will make both our lives easier.
I will no longer Tweet from @chadnesbitt. I’m a simple person who doesn’t enjoy this kind of drama. If I wanted attention, I’d run for Chair of a political party.
After three years of lying low, the Democrats are finally taking the advice of the Carolina Stompers [their website is currently down it's back up now], and doing away with the name Aycock from their annual dinner at the exclusive Grove Park Inn in Asheville, NC. I notice that they're not doing anything regarding honoring the North Carolina Confederate Governor, Zebulon Vance, who was also a racist. Here is an excerpt of a speech he gave in 1890 while serving in the US Senate:
In this great struggle to escape Negro rule and restore our State governments to the control of those who made them, and whose ancestors had established their principles in their blood, we had both the aid and the sympathy of Northern Democrats everywhere. We had neither from you. [source]
In the fall of 2007, I joined with Richard Bernier of URTV's Sound Off Buncombe to cover the Democratic Fundraiser after Chad Nesbitt of The Carolina Stompers brought it to my attention that the event was named after a racist North Carolina Governor named Charles Brantley Aycock.
Here are some videos taken by Richard Bernier and me. The first four are mine, and the last four are Richard's.
As far as I know, Richard and I are the only two people to ever provide extensive video coverage of the exclusive fundraiser. I would go and do this every year, but Asheville is a bit far for me to travel on a lark.
In an effort to downplay Governor Aycock's blatant racism, Democrats have tried to say that they have honored him for his educational reforms. Really? Either they are completely ignorant of the types of educational reforms he supported, and his thinking behind them, or they support them.
To make sure that to honor him for his educational reforms is still honoring his racism, here is the thinking behind North Carolina Governor Charles Brantley Aycock's educational reforms in the early 20th Century from a book I have on the subject:
In 1900, North Carolina's public education for both races was among the poorest in the nation. Democrat Charles B. Aycock, a racist educational reformer, was elected governor that year. He believed that the primary reason for improving education was to train white voters. Uncharacteristically, from 1895 through 1898 Fusionists - agrarian Populists (many former democrats) and Republicans (many of them african Americans) - had controlled state government. In 1900, Democrats used the Fusion period to justify white supremacy and African American disenfranchisement as safeguards against "Negro domination." It is no wonder, then, that Aycock, whose view on education for African Americans was limited, was chosen to rescue the state. He and other educational liberals cleverly used the race question despite opposition to their centralizing educational tendencies from white rural fundamentalists and blacks who recognized the inequities of public education. A related issue was the state's need to educate a cheap, docile, but effective African American labor force. Yet the political threat of African American voters was the center of the white supremacy campaign behind the school reform movement around 1900.
Source: Charles W. Wadelington and Richard F. Knapp Charlotte Hawkins Brown and Palmer Memorial Institute: What One Young African American Woman Could Do (UNC Press 1999, p 7-8) [Amazon]
For more on the effort of the Carolina Stompers to protest the honoring of a White Supremacist by the North Carolina Democratic Party: NC Dems Dinner Named After White Supremacist [Black & Right]
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