Speakers: Douglas A. Jackson, assistant professor of music, Elizabeth City State University, and Dr. Logan H. Westbrooks, founder and president, Source Records
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Director Mark Decena will discuss his latest film, Farming While Black.
Speaker: Jamie K. Oxendine, author, educator, historian, speaker, and member of the Lumbee Tribe of North Carolina
Speaker: Carol Quigless, daughter of Milton Quigless, board-certified massage therapist, certified clinical aromatherapist, and reiki master-teacher
Speakers: Heather Leah, historian, creator, and producer.
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Speakers: Nelson Nauss, executive director and cofounder, The Ghost Guild; and Danielle Shirilla, Lori Shamblin, and Melissa Holman, volunteers, The Ghost Guild.
In 1946, Jane Pratt—a Capitol Hill secretary—became the first congresswoman to represent North Carolina, something she managed with just a $100 campaign budget.
At the 1912 Summer Olympics, American Indian Jim Thorpe won the decathlon and pentathlon and became a sports legend. After officials discovered Thorpe had played minor league baseball in North Carolina, they stripped him of his victories. Matthew Andrews, a teaching associate professor at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, recounts this early sports scandal and Thorpe’s struggle to regain his gold medals.
The Battle of Moores Creek Bridge initiated full-blown conflict in North Carolina during the Revolutionary War.