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People

  • The "5" Royales (rhythm & blues band from Winston-Salem, 1950s)
  • Charles Henry Alston (artist, 1907-1977) (could add information about his papers in the Southern Historical Collection)
  • Louis E. Austin (editor and publisher of The Carolina Times from 1927 to 1971)
  • Romare Bearden (artist and writer, 1911-1988) (lead section is sparse) Frankcjones (talk) 17:23, 14 April 2013 (UTC)[reply]
  • Charlotte Hawkins Brown (educator and academic, 1883-1961)
  • Dorothy Brown Dorothy Lavinia Brown
  • Eva Clayton (U.S. Representative, b. 1934)
  • Elizabeth Cotten (blues and folk musician and songwriter, 1893-1987)
  • Chuck Davis (dancer)
  • Helen Edmonds (first African American woman to become dean of a graduate school, at NC Central)
  • Henry Frye (first African American justice of NC Supreme Court, b. 1932)
  • Clarence Gaines (college men's basketball coach, 1923-2005)
  • Abraham Galloway (abolitionist born into slavery, 1837-1870)
  • Moses Grandy (author of Life of a Slave, 1786-?)
  • J. Eugene Grigsby (artist, 1918- ) (There is currently no wikipedia entry.)
  • Rencher Harris (first African American member of Durham City Board of Education and first African American city councilman in Durham)
  • George Moses Horton (poet born into slavery, 1797-1884)
  • Harriet Jacobs (writer and abolitionist born into slavery, 1813-1897)
  • Thomas H. Jones (writer and abolitionist born into slavery, 1806-?)
  • Howard Nathaniel Lee (politician, first African American mayor of Chapel Hill, b. 1934)
  • Bishop Dready Manning (blues and gospel musician, b. 1934)
  • Millie and Christine McCoy (conjoined twins, stage performers, 1851-1912)
  • John Merrick (founder of NC Mutual Life Insurance Company, born into slavery, 1859-1919)
  • Aaron Moore (first black physician in Durham, founder of NC Mutual Life Insurance Company, 1863-1923)
  • Wyatt Outlaw (deputy member of Grand State Council of the Union League of America, hanged by KKK in 1870)
  • Charlie Scott (professional basketball player, b. 1948)
  • Wendell Scott (first black NASCAR driver, 1921-1990)
  • James E. Shepard (founder of NC Central University, 1875-1947)
  • Charles Clinton Spaulding (founder of NC Mutual Life Insurance Company, 1874-1952)
  • John W. Stephens (state senator, assassinated by KKK in 1870)
  • LeRoy T. Walker (first black president of U.S. Olympic Committee, 1918-2012)
  • George Henry White (U.S. Congressman, 1852-1915)

Places

  • Princeville, NC (town established by freed slaves after the Civil War) (needs a history section)
  • Soul City (planned community in Warren County, NC, founded early 1970s)
  • St. Philip's Moravian Church, Winston-Salem (oldest standing African American church in NC)

Events

Businesses/Organizations

  • 3rd North Carolina regiment (all-African American regiment during the Spanish-American war)
  • The Carolina Times (African-American newspaper founded in the 1920s) - biblbiophibian is working on it
  • North Carolina Fund (Community anti-poverty initiative from the 1960s)
  • North Carolina Mutual Life Insurance Company (oldest and largest African American-lead financial company in the U.S.)
  • North Carolina State Equal Rights League (founded in 1865 to advocate politically for African Americans)
  • WAFR (later WVSP) (first African American public radio station in the U.S.)

Colleges, Universities & Schools

Completed edits and articles

People

Businesses and Organizations

  • The Carolina Times (African-American newspaper founded in the 1920s) -- biblbiophibian: it's updated with more references, but there doesn't seem to be a lot of information about the newspaper specifically, even in the special collections.
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