by Susan | Aug 12, 2019 | Monuments
The Unsung Founders Memorial at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill is located in McCorkle Place, one of the University’s quads. The memorial is a black granite tabletop supported by 300 bronze figurines and surrounded by 5 black stone seats. The...
by Susan | Feb 5, 2018 | Monuments
On February 1, 1960 four black students from North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University—Joseph McNeil, Franklin McCain, Ezell Blair Jr. and David Richmond—sat down at a segregated Woolworth’s lunch counter in downtown Greensboro and started a...
by Susan | Apr 17, 2017 | Monuments
On Monday, February 1, 1960, Greensboro went down in history for the igniting the civil rights “sit-in” movement in the nation. On this day, four North Carolina. A&T State University students sat down at the F.W. Woolworth Company’s segregated lunch counter and...
