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Durham resident Dr. LeRoy Walker rose from humble circumstances to become president of the United States Olympic Committee (USOC). He will play an important role in organizing the 1996 Olympic Games in Atlanta.
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Few people who spend a dime know that the Roosevelt head was designed in 1943 by Mooresville native Selma Burke. Burke, now 94 and very much active artistically, is a renowned artist and sculptor whose works are known around the world.
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Laurinburg Institute in Scotland County is the country's only black-owned, independent prep school. Founded in 1904 with Booker T. Washington's help, it is a quiet learning haven for inner-city youth.
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The Outer Banks Pea Island Lifesaving Station was the nation's only station manned by African Americans. Operating from the late 19th-century until 1947, when machines made rowboats obsolete, the surfmen aided over 30 distressed ships and saved over 200 people. Their most famous rescue was saving the crew of the hurricane-ravaged schooner E.S. NEWMAN on October 11, 1896.
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On December 27, 1892, in a remote pasture near Salisbury, in the cold and snow, Johnson C. Smith University (then Biddle Memorial Institute) and Livingstone College played the first football game between historically black colleges. This game laid the groundwork for black college football. Today, nine historically African American schools in North Carolina have football programs.
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Wilmington native Willis Richardson, playwright, director, and federal government worker, was a pioneer in the black theater movement and Harlem Renaissance of the 1920s. Shortly before his death in 1977, a group of African American actors in Wilmington formed the Willis Richardson Players in honor of the playwright. The group performs several works each season that are of interest to all audiences. Performances take place at the Thalian Hall Center for Performing Arts.
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In 1876, Alexander Freeman, a freed slave, bought property at Federal Point Township, a peninsula separating the Cape Fear River from the Atlantic Ocean, that included 300 acres of beachfront land. His grandchildren inherited the land in 1902, and began developing it as a resort, called Seabreeze, for African Americans during the Jim Crow Era. White traces the beach's history from its beginning to the start of its demise by Hurricane Hazel in 1954 until Hurricane Fran claimed the last of the property in 1996.
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During World War I Charlotte was the site of Camp Greene, a large military training camp. Recruits from all across the nation were sent there for training in preparation for possible overseas service. At its peak more than 60,000 soldiers lived on base.
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