Record #:

21539

Author(s):

Carter, David C.

Abstract:

An examination of the Williamston Freedom Movement, that began with a 32 consecutive-day period in the summer of 1963 and continued into the following year. African Americans held nightly meetings, formulated sweeping demands, and participated in dozens of marches and sit-ins that included a school boycott of segregated education and an economic boycott of white-owned business in Williamston.

Source:

North Carolina Historical Review (NoCar F251 .N892), Vol. 76 Issue 1, Jan 1999, p1-42, il, por, map, f Periodical Website

Subject(s):

Civil rights movement; Williamston Freedom Movement; Williamston--History

Record #:

43230

Author(s):

Roberson, Elizabeth

Abstract:

Eliza Bowen, more famously known as Madam Jumel, died at the age of 92 in New York City on July 16, 1865. The illegitimate child of a prostitute, carried on a series of relationships with cultured men before maneuvering a lucrative marriage to wealthy New York Wine merchant Stephen Jumel and in later years becoming the wife of Aaron Burr. For a short time in the 1790s, she lived with her mother and stepfather in a rented house in the town Williamston, N.C. She is thought to be the inspiration for Charles Dickens's Mrs. Haversham in the novel, "Great Expectations".

Source:

North Carolina's Eastern Living Magazine (NoCar F 252.3 N82), Vol. 4 Issue 2, Winter 2012, p52-56 Periodical Website

Subject(s):

Madam Jumel (1775-1865); Williamston--History; Williamston--Madame Jumel; Burr, Aaron