This humble, well-used cardboard hand fan combines three key elements of black history in North Carolina: — Dr. King. — North Carolina Mutual Life Insurance, the state’s preeminent black business. — The typically un-air-conditioned churches that accommodated not only worship services but also […]
Posts Tagged ‘nc civil rights’
New in the collection: Martin Luther King hand fan
Posted in Memorabilia Moment, tagged hand fans, martin luther king, nc civil rights, north carolina mutual life insurance on January 15, 2018 | Leave a Comment »
Archives yielded truths that grandparents wouldn’t
Posted in Just A Bite, tagged david neal, greensboro nc, nc civil rights, patriots of north carolina, scalawag magazine on November 28, 2016 | Leave a Comment »
“The only time I tried to directly interrogate my grandparents on race was in the early 1990s. Having learned about Greensboro’s importance in the civil rights movement from a class in college, I asked them what they remembered about the years of school desegregation and the Woolworth sit-ins. There followed a long pause, punctuated by […]
Contrasting corporate roles in 2 rights movements
Posted in Just A Bite, tagged hb2, james surowiecki, lgbt rights, nc civil rights on April 18, 2016 | Leave a Comment »
“During the civil-rights era, when local administrators across the South resisted desegregation and suppressed protests, business élites in Dallas and Charlotte pushed for moderation; Dallas had desegregated its downtown businesses by 1961, and Charlotte began desegregating public accommodations the year before the 1964 Civil Rights Act. “Those efforts, though, were driven by local businesses and […]
Not everyone in Greensboro wanted to hear young MLK
Posted in On This Day, tagged bennett college, greensboro nc, martin luther king, nc civil rights on February 11, 2016 | Leave a Comment »
On this day in 1958: The Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., not yet 30 years old but already famous for having led the Montgomery bus boycott, pays his first visit to Greensboro. The local NAACP has invited King, but only black Bennett College will provide him a hall. He addresses two overflow crowds — morning […]
Black baseball player sparks racist outrage in Gastonia
Posted in On This Day, tagged american legion baseball, ernest bunny taliaferria, gastonia nc, nc civil rights, springfield mass on August 22, 2015 | Leave a Comment »
On this day in 1934: The American Legion baseball team from Springfield, Mass., withdraws from a tournament in Gastonia because of local resistance to its lone black player. Ernest “Bunny” Taliaferro was barred from the team’s hotel, and the Charlotte Observer reports that “those in charge of the tournament would not guarantee the safety of […]
An icepick, a corpse and 2 very different explanations
Posted in On This Day, tagged beaufort county nc, clarence alligood, joan little, morris dees, nc civil rights, william kunstler on August 15, 2015 | Leave a Comment »
On this day in 1975: In a case that has become a national cause celebre, an evenly biracial Raleigh jury acquits black defendant Joan Little in the icepick stabbing slaying of white jailer Clarence Alligood. Defense attorneys — including civil rights stalwarts William Kunstler and Morris Dees — argued that Alligood, 62, had attempted to […]
When black students mounted roof to seek equality
Posted in Just A Bite, tagged belmont abbey, gaston gazette, howard fuller, media disrupted, nc civil rights on May 6, 2014 | Leave a Comment »
“Seven African-American students, all studying on a predominantly white college campus in 1969, took to the roof of a classroom building. They called for equal treatment. Instead, a call went out for the police…. “The decision to take over a Belmont Abbey campus building came amid unrest at home over the Vietnam War and the Civil […]
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