<p>Pine Level, 1941. A high school girl signs up for Navy WAVES—needing her parents' signature. From Bronx boot camp to D.C. code rooms, Lenora Crocker Stanley breaks every ceiling. Back home, her fierce alto turns Legion meetings and hospital boards into battlegrounds.</p>

Pine Level, 1941. A high school girl signs up for Navy WAVES—needing her parents' signature. From Bronx boot camp to D.C. code rooms, Lenora Crocker Stanley breaks every ceiling. Back home, her fierce alto turns Legion meetings and hospital boards into battlegrounds.

Fight Song

One of the first descriptions of North Carolina by the English that would later colonize the area was given by Ralph Lane, the governor of the first attempted colony. In 1585, Gov. Lane referred to the land as "the goodliest soil under the cope of heaven" in his letters back to England.
This podcast will tell the stories of its history, help people see the connections, not only between its "officials" but also between people that history either forgot or chose not to listen to. 
We will tell their stories; the plantation owners, the enslaved people, the displaced native Americans...all of them

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One of the first descriptions of North Carolina by the English that would later colonize the area was given by Ralph Lane, the governor of the first attempted colony. In 1585, Gov. Lane referred to the land as "the goodliest soil under the cope of heaven" in his letters back to England. This podcast will tell the stories of its history, help people see the connections, not only between its "officials" but also between people that history either forgot or chose not to listen to. We will tell their stories; the plantation owners, the enslaved people, the displaced native Americans...all of them

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