Record #:

28066

Author(s):

Schwartz, Joe

Abstract:

Michelle Cotton Laws is the winner of a 2009 Indy Citizen Award for improving her community. Laws is the president of the Chapel Hill-Carrboro NAACAP chapter. Through her work, she has exposed the strained race relations in the primarily white, progressive Chapel Hill. Example of her activism and her standing in the community and state are detailed.

Source:

Independent Weekly (NoCar Oversize AP 2 .I57 [volumes 13 - 23 on microfilm]), Vol. 26 Issue 47, November 2009, p17

Subject(s):

Political activists--Research Triangle Metropolitan Area; Citizenship awards; NAACP (National Association for the Advancement of Colored People)