Winston Salem, NC- Mutter D. Evans in 1979 purchased WAAA-AM when she was 26 years old for $1.04 million. She started a Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. celebration In Winston-Salem (MLK Noon Hour) in which she played speeches by Rev Dr King, five years before the holiday became official.
Photographer James Gibson Peeler (1929-2004) spent nearly half a century ,from the 1960s until he died in 2004 documenting the African American experience in Charlotte, North Carolina.
Mr. Neal Thomas, of Wendell , North Carolina, white oak basket maker that he’s been crafting by hand for over 50 years.
Pea Island Life Savers And The Cookhouse Darrell, Joan, and Frank are 1stcousins &run the Museum- direct descendants of Pea Island LifeSaving Service station crew. Their grgreat uncle, William D. Pugh, & their grgrandfather, Joseph Hall Berry, both served with station Keeper Richard Etheridge.
From: Chatham Historical Museum - Sitting: William and Sally Ann Headen. Their children: Left to right: Fannie, John Walker, LouAnna and Willie (Newby). William, Sally Ann, and Fannie are buried in the Corinth AMEZ cemetery in Siler City along with several others who also have the surname of Headen.
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Leora "Sam" Jones was born August 11, 1960 in Mount Olive, North Carolina.
She is an American former handball player who competed three times at the Olympics, in 1984, in 1988, and in 1992.
She was Inducted into the North Carolina Sports Hall Of Fame in 2004
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Ruth Whitehead Whaley born in Goldsboro, NC (February 2, 1901 – December 23, 1977) was the third African American woman admitted to practice law in New York in 1925 and the first in NC in 1933. She was the first Black woman to graduate from Fordham University School of Law, cum laude in 1924.
Danita M. Brown was the first Black woman certified to practice architecture in North Carolina, she received her license in 1990. Brown graduated from Clemson University with a Bachelor of Architecture in 1983 and a Master of Architecture in 1987. #IrememberOurHistory®
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On December 21, 1837, following an anti-slavery speech by Vermont representative William Slade, the U.S. House of Representatives overwhelmingly renewed and expanded a rule that prohibited any future discussion about the abolition of slavery in the House. The so-called “Gag Rule”—
Siler City, North Carolina: Photograph of Elder Theater, with their segregated balcony, early 1950's.
Source: Chatham Historical Museum
Top image: cropped and enlarged segregated balcony.
Bottom image: uncropped full photograph.
"Slaves no more--free men forever" is a quote from an address by Colonel H. L. Pike at an Emancipation Day Celebration in Raleigh, 1870.
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Rebecca Drew Hathaway (1825-1901), Affectionately known as “Ma Becky”, spent the first forty years of her life enslaved on plantations belonging to Josiah Collins near Edenton, North Carolina. She was one of nineteen slaves documented to have run away from Somerset during its 80 years of operation.
"They Were Her Property: White Women As Slave Owners In The American South" By Stephanie E. Jones-Rogers
"one story about Martha Gibbs, after the Confederates surrendered, Gibbs “refugeed:” She took some of her enslaved workers to Texas, at gunpoint and forced them to labor for her until 1866..."
Mr. David George Bond (1906-1999)
Image: Bio on Mr. David George Bond from Quitsna, Bertie Co, NC. Left bottom image: Mr. David George Bond's grandson. Dr. Stephen L. Bond wrote this book about his grandfather's life.
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Allen Parker (1838-1906), was born enslaved at the plantation named Martinique, in a community called Rockyhock, in Chowan County, North Carolina. For the first 24 years of his life he was hired out making money for his enslaver to different local white men for a year at a time.
Top and left: Martin County, NC: Ad for "Jordan" a self emancipated slave submitted by slaver Hesse F. Jones on May 14. in the North Carolina Journal - Halifax, NC, published June 4, 1810 . @IrememberOurHistory®
Right bottom: Map of NC, Martin County in red.
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Title: Sometimes, "I told you so" just isn’t enough.
Art by @navirobins
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