The president of the oldest HBCU in North Carolina is speaking out against a recent incident where law enforcement stopped a busload of students from the
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In 1790 the first decennial United States federal census had its beginnings with a simple purpose to count people. The main objective was to determine the number of representatives to Congress from each state.
The framers of the Constitution did not have genealogy in mind when they called for the enumeration of residents of this new country. However, despite its original purpose the census has become an important tool for those doing family research. When the National Archives became the repository for the census records and released the information contained in them to the public in 1952, one of the qualifications was: “After the lapse of seventy-two years from the enumeration date of a decennial census, the National Archives and Records Services may disclose information contained in these records for use in legitimate historical, genealogical or other worth-while research. . .” This decision by our government has become