Posted in From the Stacks, History, Just A Bite, On This Day, Tar Heelia on April 25, 2012 | 3 Comments »
On this day in 1908 Edward R. Murrow was born in the Guilford County community of Polecat Creek. Named Egbert Roscoe Murrow by his parents, the CBS News broadcast legend changed his name to Edward while a college student. The Murrow family left their Guilford County farm when Murrow was six and moved to Washington [...]
Posted in Just A Bite, Tar Heelia, tagged adam clayton powell, dan k moore, geoffrey kabaservice, paradox of tar heel politics, rob christensen, robert l gavin, rule and ruin, terry sanford on April 25, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
“In the [1964] North Carolina governor’s race, approximately 97 percent of black voters preferred segregationist Democrat Dan K. Moore to his integrationist Republican opponent, Robert L. Gavin. As Gavin explained, ‘This I believe was because of the determination of the Negro race to defeat our [Goldwater-Miller] national ticket.’ ” — From “Rule and Ruin: The [...]
