{"id":1758,"date":"2018-12-03T13:20:55","date_gmt":"2018-12-03T20:20:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/?p=1758"},"modified":"2018-12-03T13:35:26","modified_gmt":"2018-12-03T20:35:26","slug":"mclaurin-melton-alonza-1941","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/?p=1758","title":{"rendered":"McLAURIN, MELTON ALONZA, 1941-"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Biography:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Historian; university professor. Born&#8211; July 11, 1941, Fayetteville, N.C. Parents&#8211; A. Merrill and Thelma (Melton) McLaurin. Married&#8211; Sandra Cockrell, November 23, 1961. Children&#8211; Two. Education&#8211; B.S., East Carolina University, 1962; M.A., 1964; Ph.D., University of South Carolina, 1967.\u00a0History instructor,\u00a0University of South Alabama, 1967-1977; University of North Carolina, Wilmington, 1977-2004; Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs, UNCW, 1996-2003. Chair of NC Humanities Council. Member&#8211; Organization of American Historians, Southern Historical Association, North Carolina Historical Society. Awarded emeritus status at UNCW on his retirement in 2018. Received the Lillian Smith Award for Non-Fiction, for <em>Separate Pasts, <\/em>1988, and the Order of the Long Leaf Pine, North Carolina&#8217;s highest award for service to the state, in 2018.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Contemporary Authors online.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Publication(s):<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Celia, a Slave. Athens, Ga.; University of Georgia Press, 1991.<\/p>\n<p>The Knights of Labor in the South. Westport, Conn.; Greenwood Press, 1978.<\/p>\n<p>The Marines of Montford Point: America&#8217;s First Black Marines.\u00a0 University of North Carolina Press, 2007.<\/p>\n<p>The North Carolina State Fair:\u00a0 The First 150 Years. Office of Archives and History. N. C. Dept. of Cultural Resources, 2003.<\/p>\n<p>Paternalism and Protest; Southern Cotton Mill Workers and Organized Labor, 1875-1905. Westport, Conn.; Greenwood Pub. Corp., 1971.<\/p>\n<p>Separate Pasts; Growing up White in the Segregated South. Athens, Ga.; University of Georgia Press, 1987.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Joint_Publication(s):<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Image of Progress; Alabama Photographs, 1872-1917. University, Ala.; University of Alabama Press, 1980.<\/p>\n<p>Mobile; American River City. Mobile, Ala.; Easter Pub. Co., 1975.<\/p>\n<p>Mobile; the Life and Times of a Great Southern City. Woodland Hills, Calif.; Windsor Publications, 1981.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Joint_Editor;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>You Wrote My Life:\u00a0 Lyrical Themes in Country Music.\u00a0 Gordon and Breach, 1992.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Biography: Historian; university professor. Born&#8211; July 11, 1941, Fayetteville, N.C. Parents&#8211; A. Merrill and Thelma (Melton) McLaurin. Married&#8211; Sandra Cockrell, November 23, 1961. Children&#8211; Two. Education&#8211; B.S., East Carolina University, 1962; M.A., 1964; Ph.D., University of South Carolina, 1967.\u00a0History instructor,\u00a0University of South Alabama, 1967-1977; University of North Carolina, Wilmington, 1977-2004; Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1758","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-authors","category-m-o"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1758","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1758"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1758\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9127,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1758\/revisions\/9127"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1758"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1758"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1758"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}