Tag Archives: Civil Rights

Before Brown, There Was Blue

December 28, 2012 – 10:38 am

Sixty-one years ago Durham parents won a lawsuit against the city’s school system over equal funding for black and white public schools. That case, Blue v. Durham, helped lead to the U.S. Supreme Court’s landmark Brown v. Board of Education decision that declared separate public schools for black and white students unconstitutional. Eddie Davis, former [...]

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North Carolina Celebrates Archives Week October 22-26

October 16, 2012 – 10:18 am

RALEIGH–Governor Beverly Eaves Perdue has designated Oct. 22-26 as Archives Week in North Carolina. The State Archives of North Carolina will celebrate Archives Week with educational programs planned to reflect this year’s theme, “Journeys to Justice: Civil Rights in North Carolina.” Documents will be exhibited in the State Archives on Monday, Oct. 22, 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. One such document [...]

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History à la Carte: Colored Confederates and U.S. Colored Troops

August 17, 2010 – 10:09 am

Did you know that enslaved and free people of color from North Carolina served in the Union and Confederate armies during the Civil War? Earl Ijames, Curator of African American and Community History at the N.C. Museum of History, has spent years researching this topic. He will share his findings during History à la Carte: [...]

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Theater Company Highlights Civil Rights Event in Raleigh

March 17, 2009 – 3:31 pm

On a hot summer night in 1960, a historic meeting took place in Raleigh in the auditorium of Murphey Elementary School. The meeting sparked the capital city’s participation in the Civil Rights movement. Forty-nine years later, Burning Coal Theatre Company of Raleigh is producing a play, 1960, based on spoken-word interviews with the people who [...]

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Podcast Features Photo Exhibit, Civil Rights History

January 16, 2009 – 4:16 pm

The latest podcast from the North Carolina Department of Cultural Resources features an artist who is helping tell North Carolina’s story and takes a look at the state’s role in the civil rights movement. The podcast starts with a chat between Fay Mitchell of Cultural Resources and North Carolina photographer Chris Sims, whose work is [...]

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N.C. Photo Stories / Civil Rights History

January 16, 2009 – 3:46 pm

[display_podcast] This edition of the NC Culture Dot Com Podcast starts with a chat with North Carolina photographer Chris Simms, who is featured in the “Telling Our Stories Photography Exhibit.” The exhibit is on tour around the state through late 2009. Next, Dr. Jeffrey Crow, deputy secretary of the Department of Cultural Resources for Archives and History [...]

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