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43226
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"From his childhood on a farm in Richmond County to his barrier breaking achievements on the North Carolina Supreme Court, Henry Frye builds his life and career on a foundation of hard work and integrity." A graduate of the Agricultural & Technical College in Greensboro, Frye was sworn in as a justice on the North Carolina Supreme Court on February 3, 1983.
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Proposed demolition of an 11-block area in downtown Asheville came to a head on on October 23, 1981, with a televised debate that ended with voters rejecting a multi-million daollar mall plan. Kathryn Long, a business owner in the affected area.and her brother-in-law, Wayne Caldwell, and others founded Save Downtown Asheville, Inc, which effectively changed the course of city revitalization rom demoltion to preservation.
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"Harvey Gantt arrives in Charlotte as a leader with vision, helping shape the city's future as an architect and, following his election in 1983, as its first black mayor."
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The snowstorm that occurred in eastern North Carolina in December 1989, marked the are's first white Christmas on record with the National Weather Service.
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The article is first in a series by Phillip Gerard to explore the Vietnam War, racial conflict and new roles for women during the decade of the 1970s. Gerard is the 2019 North Carolina Award for Literature recipient.
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42891
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"In Asheboro, the rolling piedmont starts to look like a slice of Africa as a new state supported zoo aims to teach the value of conservation- and give its animals space to be themselves." The North Carolina Zoo was dedicated in August 1974. Today it is the world's largest by area with 500 developed acres populated by 1,800 animals.
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"As Developers Discover North Carolina's Beautiful Shorelines and beachfront communities, lawmakers make a plan to protect their splendor for generations to come." The Coastal Area Management Act was deigned to protect the 20 counties sitting on North Carolina's eastern edge. The article summarizes the crafting of environmental protections along North Carolina's coast.
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""A new commission of Indian affairs ensures representation for North Carolina's Indigenous population. In politics, journalism, the arts, and more, the state's original residents make strides and speak out." The commission works to affirm the dignity of eight North Carolina tribes totaling 64,000 people. Discussed here are the Coharie and Lumbee tribes.
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"On September 11, 1974, Eastern Air Lines Flight 212 goes down near Charlotte. The crash -- one of the worst in state history -- initiates lasting changes to the rules surrounding takeoffs and landings." 72 people are killed. A result of the following investigation led to the "sterile cockpit rule", codified in 1981 and designed to focus the flight crew's attention during critical phases of takeoff and landing.
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A native of Reidsville, Susie Sharp was the first female Chief Justice on the North Carolina Supreme Court. She was firs appointed to the Supreme Court in 1962, by then Gov. Terry Sanford.
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It was a dynamic decade, due to social and cultural forces encouraging progress and protest. The author observed that progress and protest were particularly manifest in higher education, government, sports, and entertainment.
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Civil rights movement; Community colleges--North Carolina--history ; Charlotte Motor Speedway; Woolworth's 1960 sit in--University of North Carolina Greensboro; Klu Klux Klan--North Carolina ; North Carolina Arts Council; Folk music; Scott, William Kerr, 1896-1958; Hodges, Luther Hartwell, 1898-1974; Cape Lookout National Seashore
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Blizzards in early 1960 left a part of North Carolina more than drifts up to ten feet. Fortunately, communities across the state moved to help were a boon to mountain towns immobilized by the weather winter anomaly.
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Our State
(NoCar F 251 S77), Vol. 87 Issue 9, February 2020,
p132-134, 136, 138-139
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Author Phillip Gerard reflects on race car driver Robert Glenn "Junior" Johnson and the evolution of the North Wilkesboro Speedway.
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A music performance at East Carolina College (now University) almost didn't happen on the evening of February 5, 1958. The Dave Brubeck Quartet integrated the school for the first time that very night when school authorities were pressured to allow the Quartet's one African American musician, Eugene Wright to be on stage.
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The nationally recognized Civil Rights Movement was represented locally by events such as the 1957 sit-in at Durham’s Royal Ice Cream Company, led by the Rev. Douglas Moore, and the 1960 Woolworth sit-in led by a quartet of AT&T students. Protests such as these planted seeds of justice that, decades later, is bearing fruit for both blacks and whites.
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Woolworth's 1960 sit in; Civil Rights Movement--sit ins--Royal Ice Cream Company (Durham); Civil Rights Movement--Marie Everett--Carolina Theatre (Wilson); Civil Rights Movement--Floyd McKissick--University of North Carolina School of Law; Umstead, William B., 1895-1954; Pearsall, Thomas J., 1903-1981; Santford Martin--editor--WINSTON SALEM JOURNAL ; Civil Rights Movement--Rev. Douglas Moore--Royal Ice Cream Company (Durham); Civil Rights Movement--Robert Patterson--Woolworth's (Greensboro); Woolworth's 1960 sit in--University of North Carolina Greensboro