Sherman Criner is a senior (Class of 2026) at Duke University majoring in history and public Policy. Originally from Wilmington, North Carolina, Criner will enroll in Stanford’s history PhD program upon graduation, with plans to study nineteenth-century American political history.
Sherman Criner
Student
Duke University (2026)
James H. Harris (1832 – 1891)
Described by W.E.B. Du Bois as a politician of “great ability,” James Henry Harris was perhaps the most consequential black political leader in nineteenth-century North Carolina.[1] By the time of his death in 1891, Harris had served as chair or president of several state and national equal-rights conventions, a delegate to the 1868 North Carolina...