Black History Month: Young Voices — Napolean Wright
Civil Rights Museum Opens On 50th Anniversary Of Sit Ins
GREENSBORO – Fifty years after a North Carolina sit-in sparked a movement of nonviolent protest across the South, officials gathered yesterday in Greensboro to open a museum celebrating that event.
Hundreds of people came for the opening of the International Civil Rights Center and Museum.
The museum is in the Woolworth building where four college freshman went 50 years ago to begin a nonviolent protest of racial segregation.
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African-American Cultural Festival Planned For Jan. 30
The North Carolina Museum of History will kick off Black History Month on Jan. 30 with the African-American Cultural Festival.
More than 50 presenters are scheduled at the festival, which is free of charge and begins at 11 a.m.
Raleigh City Museum To Present ‘The Life Of The Enslaved In North Carolina’
The Raleigh City Museum will host a special presentation at 2 p.m. Saturday, Feb. 27, titled “The Life of the Enslaved in North Carolina,” hosted by Dr. Harry Watson at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
The program looks at the history and geography of slavery in North Carolina during the antebellum period, according to a press release from the museum. Watson’s program will also examine family life, community, music and religion during the period.
African-American Inventors Honored By SciWorks Display
By Laura Giovanelli
WINSTON-SALEM JOURNAL reporter
Inventors come up with a lot of clever things to make our lives easier, but just imagine the world without this invention, so powerful, so fast, so fun – the SuperSoaker.
Lonnie Johnson, a black nuclear engineer whose resume includes time with NASA’s Jet Propulsion Lab, is probably best known as the father of perhaps the greatest water gun of all time.
Johnson’s earlier counterparts have designed, improved and patented variations of some of the more practical objects that fill modern life: the icebox (John Stanard in 1891), the elevator (Alexander Miles in 1867) and the public mail boxes (Philip Downing in 1891) found on street corners.
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