By Kim Hawks, Chatham News + Record Staff Local potter Mark Hewitt hosted his first public kiln opening since the pandemic opened, inviting customers last weekend to view pottery and purchase pieces outside Hewitt’s Pittsboro home he shares with his wife, Carol Hewitt. They’ve been in business for 38 years. Chapelboro.com has partnered with the Chatham […]
my book is about educational activism. i was interested in telling her story because she was a very important person in the civil rights movement. she was also important before that. she was nearly six years old the citizenship education program, it seemed like i d gone into researching this and the further i got along, i talked about what she had done. what did she do that have prepared her to do this. and what does this tell us about the deeper roots of the movement and the women s roles in it. then there was her schools which had primary site of women s activism. looking at this figure was a way to tell a longer story about the civil rights movement. it also about black women s activism across the 20th century. she was born in charleston in 1898. her father was a slave. her mother was a woman who had been raised in haiti part of the time and also born in charleston. she started her teaching career in 1960 in a rural school. it is a sea island off the coast of charleston