Record #:

4526

Author(s):

O'Neill, Patrick

Abstract:

The Independent talked to activists throughout the Research Triangle Metropolitan Area and asked them to identify the ten important social justice campaigns needing citizen involvement in 2000. Among those identified were campaign finance reform, support for farmworkers, and a halt to the death penalty. O'Neill gives a brief description of each campaign and lists contact persons and phone numbers.

Source:

Independent Weekly (NoCar Oversize AP 2 .I57 [volumes 13 - 23 on microfilm]), Vol. 17 Issue 4, Jan 2000, p15-17, il Periodical Website

Subject(s):

Political activists--Research Triangle Metropolitan Area

Record #:

4531

Author(s):

Livingston, Beth

Abstract:

Born in Virginia in 1801, Thomas Day, a free African-American craftsman, came to Milton in 1825. He established a cabinetmaking business and created furniture that is as highly prized today as it was in its own time. He is considered the state's most famous cabinetmaker and furniture craftsman. That he survived and thrived in the early half of the 19th-century is even more remarkable. Among his clients were two governors and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Source:

Independent Weekly (NoCar Oversize AP 2 .I57 [volumes 13 - 23 on microfilm]), Vol. 17 Issue 4, Jan 2000, p48-49, il Periodical Website

Subject(s):

African American artisans--Milton; Cabinetmakers--Milton; Day, Thomas, 1801-1861; Free Blacks--Milton