On December 31, 1900, renowned sculptor Selma Burke was born in Mooresville.
African American History
On October 4, 1986, Graham native Rachel Oliver-Cobbin became the first North Carolinian to be crowned Miss Black America.
On September 4, 1957, Dorothy Counts enrolled at Harding High School, one of four segregated white schools in Charlotte to receive their first African Amer
A circa 1946-1948 portrait of Smith from
the Library of Congress.
On January 11, 1909, alto saxophonist Talmage “Tab” Smith was born in Kinston.
Charlotte Hawkins Brown on her wedding day in 1911.
Image from the State Library.
An 1865 drawing of Parker Robbins in the collection of the N.C. Museum of History
