Posted in On This Day, tagged american friends service committee, dunn high school nc, east carolina indian institute, eleanor roosevelt, harnett county nc, lumbee indians, nc segregation, sampson coujnty nc on August 31, 2012 | 1 Comment »
On this day in 1960: Denied admission to white Dunn High School, seven Lumbee Indian students, along with several parents, stage a sit-in and are charged with trespassing. A few N.C. counties operate separate school systems for whites, blacks and Indians. But Harnett County has no high school for Indians and instead buses them to [...]
Posted in Just A Bite, tagged millard hill md, nc medical society, nc segregation, raleigh nc on May 14, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
- “The North Carolina Medical Society overwhelmingly rejected a proposal to take in Negro doctors. Argued Dr. Millard Hill of Raleigh: as members, they would ‘seek to capitalize on their privileges and try to mix socially with whites.’ “ — From Time magazine, May 17, 1954
