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GEORGE HENRY WHITE DAYU.S Representative, 2" Congressional District, 1897-1901Saturday, January 29, 2005Edgecombe County Court House301 St. Andrew Street, Tarboro, North CarolinaMorning Session - 11:00 AM"We Will Rise Up Some Day and Come Again"St. Stephen Missionary Baptist Church100 St. Patrick Street, Tarboro, North CarolinaAfternoon Session- 2:00 PM"Life and Times of George Henry White"

GEORGE HENRY WHITEGeorge Henry White was born in Bladen County, N.C., on December 18, 1852. Aftergraduating from Howard University in 1877, he retuned to N.C. and served as ateacher, principal and lawyer in New Bern, N.C. White was elected to the N.C. Housein 1880 and the N.C. Senate in 1884. He was elected as Second District Solicitor in1886 and 1890, then the only African American district attorney in the U.S. In 1894 hemoved to Tarboro, N.C., home of his wife Cora Lena Cherry, and was elected to theU.S. House from the Second Congressional District in 1896 and re-elected in 1898.White was the only African American in Congress at that time and an outspokenadvocate for all ten million African Americans in the U.S. After the fraudulent passagein 1900 of the N.C. constitutional amendment disfranchising black voters, White saidhe could no longer live in N.C. and be treated as a man. He delivered his famousFarewell to Congress address on January 29, 1901. He lived the remainder of his lifein Washington, D.C., and Philadelphia, PA, where he established a black owned bankand an all black town named Whitesboro, N.J. White died December 28, 1918.DVD OF GEORGE HENRY WHITE DAY 2005On Saturday, January 29, 2005, the Phoenix Society hosted George Henry White Dayin Tarboro and Edgecombe County. N.C. The event consisted of two sessions. Themorning session in the Superior Court Room of the Edgecombe County Court Housefeatured remarks by Dr. Don Michael Armstrong and Judge Milton F. Fitch, Jr., andthe unveiling of a portrait of George Henry White by local artist Richard D. Wilson tohang in the Superior Court Room. The afternoon session featured a panel discussion inthe St. Stephen Missionary Baptist Church (1883) by historians Dr. David Cecelsk1,Ms. Dorothy Redford, Dr. Laura Edwards, Mr. Benjamin Justesen and Dr. John Haley.The DVD Part 1 includes the morning session and the beginning of the afternoonsession. Part 2 includes the remainder of the afternoon session.PHOENIX SOCIETY FOR AFRICAN AMERICAN RESEARCH, INC.P.O. Box 1191, Tarboro, North Carolina 27886To recover, record and promote the unique history of Edgecombe County asexperienced by members of its African American community.