Posted in DigitalNC, Tar Heelia on October 13, 2011 | 1 Comment »
Early issues of Black Ink, the newspaper of the Black Student Movement at UNC-Chapel Hill, are now available online through the North Carolina Digital Heritage Center. Dating back to 1969, Black Ink documents the experience of and issues related to African American students at UNC. The paper provides especially good coverage of student protest movements [...]
Posted in On This Day, tagged diamond shoals, maurice r thurlow, outer banks, us coast guard on October 13, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
On this day in 1927: The schooner Maurice R. Thurlow runs aground during a storm off the Outer Banks. It signals for help, and its crew of nine is taken ashore in a Coast Guard surfboat. Few ships stranded on Diamond Shoals are ever refloated, but after the storm the Coast Guard can find no [...]
