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New NC highway markers will highlight local history, lore
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North Carolinians still favor keeping Confederate monuments. Here s what has changed. Dawn Baumgartner Vaughan, The News & Observer (Raleigh, N.C.)
Apr. 8 RALEIGH For more than a century, everyone who approached North Carolina s historic Capitol building on Hillsborough Street was met first by a Confederate soldier statue. Now the view is simply the historic building itself.
What to do with Confederate monuments removed by protesters and the governor in the summer of 2020 and what to do about a long-planned monument to African Americans on the grounds of the Capitol are questions that have both been stalled out for several months.
That could change this spring.
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.
Celebrating Black History Month at the Library
Chanda Platania
Neuse Regional Library
This month is Black History Month and Neuse Regional Libraries are taking this opportunity to celebrate the many chapters of black history that are directly connected to Kinston and the Neuse Region. Just last week we had a wonderful opportunity to learn more about Green Book locations in Kinston and other efforts to increase historic preservation of important black history sites in Kinston and the region.
On Tuesday, February 9 at 6:30 p.m., community members gathered in the Schechter Auditorium of the Kinston-Lenoir County Public Library and via Zoom to learn about the Green Book Project and its connections to Kinston. The program, led by Angela Thorpe, director of the North Carolina African American Heritage Commision, covered the last three years of research by the Commission with a focus on the sites that were located right here in Kinston.
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