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John Wesley Winters Sr. (January 21, 1920 – February 15, 2004) was an American real estate developer, politician, and civil rights activist.A member of the Democratic Party, he served on City Council of Raleigh, North Carolina, from 1961 until 1967 and in the North Carolina Senate for the 14th district from 1975 until 1977.
Waddell aligned with the Democrats and their campaign to "redeem North Carolina from Negro domination". [17] Melton stated that Waddell, who had been out of public life for while, saw the White Supremacy Campaign as "his opportunity to put himself before the people and pose as a patriot, thereby getting to the feed trough". [59] [60]
The key to solving the gruesome rape of a 13-year-old girl sat for nearly 30 years in the storage unit of a small North Carolina police department. ... campaign in her new position. But first ...
While the alleged abuse was occurring, no parents noticed anything unusual about their children's behavior to indicate abuse or torture. The eight-month trial against Bob Kelly was the most expensive in North Carolina history, ending in conviction on 99 of 100 charges and twelve consecutive life sentences.
The funding immediately drew questions from people who run programs to help domestic violence victims in North Carolina. The $3.5 million nearly rivaled the $4.8 million allocated annually to the ...
Titled The Impending Crisis of the South: How to Meet It and written partly in North Carolina but published when the author was in the Northern United States, it argued that slavery hurt the economic prospects of non-slaveholders and was an impediment to the economic growth of the entire region of the South. Anger over his book due to the ...
The International Civil Rights Center and Museum was designed by Freelon Group of Durham, North Carolina, and exhibits were designed by Eisterhold Associates of Kansas City, Missouri. It has 30,000 square feet (2,800 m 2) of exhibit space occupying the ground floor and basement, and office space on the top floor.
The North Carolina sector of the Poor People's Campaign is hoping to reach the over 3 million poor and low-wage eligible voters in the state. Low-income voters make up 41.45% of the North Carolina ...