New NC highway markers will highlight local history, lore
MARTHA QUILLIN, The News & Observer
April 24, 2021
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RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) Poor Naomi Wise: spurned by her lover, fished lifeless from a river, the crime of her North Carolina murder unpunished.
The story of her violent end in the spring of 1807 has been told and retold millions of times through one of America’s best-known folk songs, with varying themes. Was she killed by the father of her unborn child so that he wouldn’t have to marry her or support the baby? Was she trying to extort money from a man to raise a child that wasn’t his?
New NC highway markers will highlight local history, lore
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Shelby approved for Civil Rights marker
Sixty-one years ago, Shelby students took a stand by organizing a sit-in at a local drugstore.
On Feb. 18, 1960, approximately 70 Black students from Cleveland High School went from store to store requesting the same service as white patrons. They were refused and had doors shut in their faces. A sit-in formed at what was once Smith’s Drugs on West Warren Street.
The passive action ended with several arrests.
Those students, and the importance of the Civil Rights movement, will soon be commemorated with a marker where the sit-in took place, outside of the current Buffalo Creek Gallery at 106. W. Warren St.