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Anna Easter Brown 1879-1957
Rocky Mount, NC
A founder in 1908 of Alpha Kappa Alpha, nation’s oldest sorority for African Americans; history teacher.
Dred Wimberly
Rocky Mount, NC
Former slave. Voted for better roads, schools, and colleges as State representative, 1879, 1887; and State senator, 1889.
Elias Carr
Governor, 1893-1897.
George H. White 1852-1918
Tarboro, NC
Represented the state's "Black Second" district, U.S. House, 1897-1901.
Henry T. Clark
Tarboro, NC
Governor of North Carolina, 1861-1862.
Joseph Blount Cheshire, Jr.
Tarboro, NC
Bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of N.C., 1893-1932; lawyer & writer.
Knights Of Labor
Tarboro, NC
Black farmworkers in region affiliated with labor union, 1886-1890.
Martin Luther King Jr. 1929-1968
Rocky Mount, NC
In his speech, Nov. 27, 1962, in gym 200 yards S.E., civil rights leader delivered refrain "I have a dream," used in...
Rural Electrification
New Deal program set up cooperatives to bring power to farms.
W. D. Pender
Tarboro, NC
Confederate major general; graduate of U.S. Military Academy, 1854.
W. L. Saunders
Tarboro, NC
Editor "Colonial Records of North Carolina," Confederate colonel, N.C. Secretary of State, 1879-91.
Westray Battle Boyce Long
Director of the Women's Army Corps, 1945-1947.
William R. Cox
Confederate general.