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1970 Oxford Murder Sparked Violent Protests

On May 11, 1970, Henry Marrow, a 23-year-old African American Vietnam veteran, was murdered in Oxford.  Marrow was approaching Robert Teel’s store to buy a Coca-Cola when he spoke to a young white woman.

The Origins of Busing—Swann v. Charlotte-Mecklenburg Board of Education

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A Watershed Moment for Environmental Justice—the Warren County PCB Protests

(Image courtesy of Ricky Stillely Photography)

The Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee

 

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Opening Doors Through Higher Education

Often referred to as the oldest historically black institution of higher learning in the South, Shaw University was founded by Henry M. Tupper, a white minister and Union Army veteran from Massachusetts in 1865.

John Chavis—Early Black Preacher and Educator

A prominent free black preacher and educator in and around the Raleigh area from 1810 onwards, John Chavis had students from many notable families in North Carolina, including future Governor Charles Manly and the sons of Chief Justice Leonard Henderson.

Thirty Years a Slave and Four in the White House

Born a slave in Virginia around 1820, Elizabeth Keckley came to North Carolina with her master’s son in 1835. Keckley purchased her freedom in 1855. In 1860, Keckley moved to Washington, D.C. where she eventually was hired by Mary Todd Lincoln in March 1861. In 1868, Keckley published her memoir, Behind the Scenes: Or 30 Years a Slave, and Four Years in the White House.

African-Americans and World War II—the Story of Montford Point

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The Fall of Fort Fisher and the United States Colored Troops

From January 15 to February 22, 1865, Union army and naval forces engaged in the successful effort to capture Fort Fisher and take Wilmington, the South’s last significant blockade running port. Several regiments of United States Colored Troops (USCT) took part, and fought with conspicuous gallantry.

A New Deal Experiment— the Tillery Resettlement

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