/tags/segregation Segregation en-US Copyright Tue, 28 Nov 2023 13:32:12 GMT /race-demographics/2023-11-28/booker-spicely-durham-historical-marker-black-soldier-jim-crow Army Private Booker T. Spicely was shot by a white bus driver after Spicely complained about having to sit in the back. Tue, 28 Nov 2023 13:32:12 GMT /race-demographics/2023-11-28/booker-spicely-durham-historical-marker-black-soldier-jim-crow Jay Price /news/2022-02-28/1920s-black-owned-safe-bus-we-didnt-have-to-ride-in-the-back The state’s first African American-owned transportation company was formed in the mid-1920s and it continued operating until 1972 when it became part of the Winston Salem Transit Authority. Mon, 28 Feb 2022 20:41:41 GMT /news/2022-02-28/1920s-black-owned-safe-bus-we-didnt-have-to-ride-in-the-back David Ford / WFDD /news/2021-06-24/the-museum-of-durham-history-honors-the-royal-ice-cream-seven The Museum of Durham History is displaying the sign for Royal Ice Cream, the site of a 1957 sit-in, the state's first civil rights sit-in. Thu, 24 Jun 2021 19:05:18 GMT /news/2021-06-24/the-museum-of-durham-history-honors-the-royal-ice-cream-seven Leoneda Inge /race-demographics/2020-02-18/the-catalyst-that-created-a-movement-60-years-after-the-greensboro-sit-ins On Feb. 1, 1960, the fight for civil rights changed forever when four freshmen students from North Carolina A&T State University refused to leave a lunch… Tue, 18 Feb 2020 16:15:52 GMT /race-demographics/2020-02-18/the-catalyst-that-created-a-movement-60-years-after-the-greensboro-sit-ins Amanda Magnus, Frank Stasio /show/the-state-of-things/2020-02-18/the-catalyst-that-created-a-movement-60-years-after-the-greensboro-sit-ins On Feb. 1, 1960, the fight for civil rights changed forever when four freshmen students from North Carolina A&T State University refused to leave a lunch… Tue, 18 Feb 2020 16:15:52 GMT /show/the-state-of-things/2020-02-18/the-catalyst-that-created-a-movement-60-years-after-the-greensboro-sit-ins Amanda Magnus, Frank Stasio /politics/2019-12-19/remembering-wense-grabarek-mayor-of-durham-during-integration Former mayor of Durham, Wensell “Wense” Grabarek, died on Sunday, Dec. 15 at the age of 100.Grabarek entered office just as the Civil Rights movement… Thu, 19 Dec 2019 17:23:30 GMT /politics/2019-12-19/remembering-wense-grabarek-mayor-of-durham-during-integration Grant Holub-Moorman, Frank Stasio /show/the-state-of-things/2019-12-19/remembering-wense-grabarek-mayor-of-durham-during-integration Former mayor of Durham, Wensell “Wense” Grabarek, died on Sunday, Dec. 15 at the age of 100.Grabarek entered office just as the Civil Rights movement… Thu, 19 Dec 2019 17:23:30 GMT /show/the-state-of-things/2019-12-19/remembering-wense-grabarek-mayor-of-durham-during-integration Grant Holub-Moorman, Frank Stasio /race-demographics/2019-05-27/black-neighborhood-in-durham-added-to-national-register-of-historic-places A well-known African American neighborhood in Durham has been added to the National Register of Historic Places. The College Heights Historic District… Mon, 27 May 2019 11:23:15 GMT /race-demographics/2019-05-27/black-neighborhood-in-durham-added-to-national-register-of-historic-places Leoneda Inge /race-demographics/2018-10-09/americas-racially-divided-neighborhoods-are-no-accident Racial segregation persists in American neighborhoods, and there is an enduring belief that the divide stems from factors like wealth, personal prejudice,… Tue, 09 Oct 2018 16:30:16 GMT /race-demographics/2018-10-09/americas-racially-divided-neighborhoods-are-no-accident Laura Pellicer, Frank Stasio /show/the-state-of-things/2018-10-09/americas-racially-divided-neighborhoods-are-no-accident Racial segregation persists in American neighborhoods, and there is an enduring belief that the divide stems from factors like wealth, personal prejudice,… Tue, 09 Oct 2018 16:30:16 GMT /show/the-state-of-things/2018-10-09/americas-racially-divided-neighborhoods-are-no-accident Laura Pellicer, Frank Stasio