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English: Charles N. Hunter (1853?-1931) was a Black educator, journalist, and historian from Raleigh, North Carolina.[1] Hunter actively engaged in several late nineteenth-century reform movements. In the 1870s, he participated in the Temperance movement.[2] Beginning in his twenties, Hunter played a significant role as a teacher or principal at the "Colored Graded Schools" in Durham, Goldsboro, and Raleigh as well as at rural schools in Robeson, Chatham, Cumberland, and Johnston Counties.[3] Hunter also helped lead an initiative to build the Berry O'Kelly Training School (previously known as the Method School) in Method, N.C.[4] A prolific writer, Hunter authored numerous letters to the editor, and he actively corresponded with local and national political figures and family members.[4] He was a pioneering publisher of newspapers for Black North Carolinians.[5] In the late 1870s, he created the North Carolina Industrial Association with his brother Osborne Hunter, Jr. and its Journal of Industry.[1] Later, he edited the Progressive Educator for the N.C. State Teachers' Association, an organization that supported Black educators. When he moved to Goldsboro, he edited The Appeal for African American readers.[6] Additionally, he wrote letters to the editor for The New National Era (Washington, D.C.) and authored content for the Gazette (Raleigh) and Independent (Raleigh) two papers targeted towards a Black audience. Throughout his life, Hunter used his journalistic voice to illuminate the challenges emancipated Blacks experienced during Reconstruction and in the early-twentieth century with regard to voting rights, lynching, economic progress, and education.[1]