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BPR / Blue Ridge Public Radio
April 3, 2018
... than 50 years after the Civil War ended. The Vance Monument was finished in 1898. It honors Zebulon Vance, North Carolina's governor during the Civil War and U.S. Senator during Reconstruction. Vance owned slaves and helped stop the full granting of civil rights to freed blacks following the Civil War.
Coos Bay World
April 3, 2018
King had initially planned to speak at Williston Senior High School in Wilmington, North Carolina, on April 4 to support Reginald Hawkins, a dentist and civil rights advocate, who was the first African-American gubernatorial candidate in the state's history. King then planned to stump in other North CarolinaÃâà...
Temple News
April 3, 2018
While growing up in Greensboro, North Carolina, during the civil rights movement, Toni Oliver thought the only professions open to her as a Black woman were minister, teacher or mortician. Coming from a family of teachers, Oliver thought her fate was sealed as a music teacher because she was a talentedÃâà...
The Hill
April 3, 2018
While the day's events will rightly focus on King's towering legacy as a civil rights leader, we in the city are also confronting part of our deeper and longer ... An abundance of slaves in Virginia, North Carolina, and Kentucky met planters' demand for labor, as traders or their agents bought the enslaved for lowÃâà...
WTOP
April 3, 2018
On April 3, 1968, civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr. delivered what turned out to be his final speech, telling a rally of striking sanitation workers in Memphis, Tennessee, that “I've been to the mountaintop” and ... North Carolina scored the last eight points for a 71-65 win over Gonzaga and an NCAA title.
WTOP
March 26, 2018
Over the past 16 months, courts struck down political districting plans drawn by Republicans in North Carolina, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin. Federal ... In Maryland, the single-district approach looks a lot like the way civil rights groups try to prove that race played too large a role in the drawing of districts.
The Wilson Times
March 26, 2018
A career civil rights lawyer, Anita Earls said her faith in the justice system was shaken when prejudice helped her brother's killer go free. Earls was working at the University of North Carolina Center for Civil Rights in 2006 when her father phoned with the devastating news that her only sibling had beenÃâà...
U.S. News & World Report
March 24, 2018
Capt. Warren Wheeler is the founder of the Airolina Young Aviators Program. The Durham native, son of Bull City civil rights leader and Mechanics and Farmers Bank and North Carolina Mutual Life Insurance Co. executive John H. Wheeler, established the first African-American U.S. airline in 1969.
QNotes
March 23, 2018
Given the recent track record of the North Carolina legislature, it is likely that there we will not see any substantial movement to protect the LGBTQ community. As we learned from the “bathroom bill,” the legislature may instead exclude the possibility of discrimination claims for the LGBTQ community. WithoutÃâà...
ABA Journal
March 23, 2018
In the mid-20th century, federal judges who were mostly insulated from political pressure enforced desegregation orders and civil rights laws in the face of defiance from Southern politicians defending white supremacy. Today, judges in North Carolina are under fire from legislators, merely for doing their jobÃâà...
The Atlantic
March 23, 2018
When African American students conducted a sit-in in Greensboro, North Carolina, in February 1960 to protest segregation, civil-rights activists were still in the early stages of movement-building. But their efforts were ultimately successful, and culminated in a law that transformed Southern race relations.
WUNC
March 16, 2018
"While a city might be able to provide protections to their residents and to people who live within those city limits, if indeed you don't, you literally on your commute home are losing your civil rights and protections," Fleming said. The campaign flew a plane over the South by Southwest festival last weekend inÃâà...
The Independent Weekly
March 2, 2018
In a letter posted on Medium yesterday, a coalition of more than sixty-five LGBTQ activists, nonprofit leaders, and former government officials sent a letter to Amazon urging the company not to build its second headquarters in a state that lacks antidiscrimination protections for LGBTQ citizens—includingÃâà...
U.S. News & World Report
March 1, 2018
A civil rights museum in North Carolina won't have to repay a $1.5 million because it raised enough money to have the loan forgiven. ... The News & Record of Greensboro reports the city of Greensboro announced Thursday that it has forgiven the loan to the International Civil Rights Center & Museum.
Asheboro Courier Tribune
December 31, 1999
The Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated 50 years ago in Memphis on April 4, 1968, but it almost didn't happen because he originally was to have spent that day touring North Carolina. The civil rights leader had previously announced he would spend April 4 touring the state campaigning forÃâà...
News & Observer (blog)
December 31, 1999
The Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated 50 years ago in Memphis on April 4, 1968, but it almost didn't happen because he originally was to have spent that day touring North Carolina. The civil rights leader had previously announced he would spend April 4 touring the state campaigning forÃâà...
The Atlantic
December 31, 1999
The demonstrators, with their zeal and style—their use of social media, their graphics and videos, their hoodies—appealed to our North Carolina group of politically committed African Americans. I was 28, and we felt that the older, more established civil-rights organizations weren't showing enough urgencyÃâà...
Smoky Mountain News
December 31, 1999
Two weeks ago marked the 53rd anniversary of a watershed moment in the civil rights movement — the Selma to Montgomery marches, where civil rights ... social and economic lines more than ever, prompting the revival of King's campaign by former North Carolina NAACP head William Barber and Rev.
