Abner Sessoms was North Carolina's for Black policeman.

June 4, 2019 marks the 100th anniversary of Congress passing the #19thAmendment, granting women the right to vote, a freedom they had long deserved.
This Amendment did not allow for Black American women to use their right to vote, it only gave White American women the ability to use their right to vote.

July 2, 1964 , President Lyndon B. Johnson signed the Civil Rights Act of 1964.
Today marks the 55th anniversary of the signing of The Civil Rights Act of 1964.
This legislation outlawed discrimination based on race, color, religion, sex, or national origin.

Born Dovey Mae Johnson, on April 17, 1914, in Charlotte, North Carolina, She Died on May 21, 2018 (aged 104) in Charlotte, North Carolina.

Dovey Johnson Roundtree.-Lawyer, Civil Rights Activist

Even though she was not allowed to use the law library, cafeteria or restroom in the courthouse, Dovey Johnson Roundtree was a master litigator.

Portrait of Dr. Anna .Julia Cooper taken circa 1902 - C.M. Bell, photographer. [between February and December 1903]
Source: Library of Congress,

Priest, Activist, Civil Rights Activist, Educator, Legal Professional, Women's Rights Activist-

Priest, Activist, Civil Rights Activist, Educator, Legal Professional, Women's Rights Activist-

Priest, Activist, Civil Rights Activist, Educator, Legal Professional, Women's Rights Activist-

Ellen Harris refused to move to the back of the bus, this is the story of how she won her case before the North Carolina Supreme Court and sued the bus company for damages.

Elreta Melton Alexander-Ralston was born on March 19, 1919 - and died on March 14,1998. In 1947, after passing the North Carolina bar exam, Alexander became the first Black woman to practice law in North Carolina.

Judge George Royster Greene, Sr., was born in Nashville, North Carolina to the late Dr. W. L. Greene and Georgia Royster Greene, on October 5, 1930. He was one of three sons. He transitioned into Heaven on Sunday, March 17, 2013, at his dearly beloved First Baptist Church.

February 3, 1983, Henry Frye became the first African American to serve on the North Carolina Supreme Court!

Joan* Little was acquitted on this day in 1975, the first woman in U.S. history to be acquitted using the defense that she used deadly force to resist sexual assault. She had killed a guard in self-defense while incarcerated.

13 Jan 1942 - 10 Oct 2000
Kinston, Lenoir County, NC native Kellis Earl Parker, an accomplished lawyer, activist, scholar, and musician, was born January 13, 1942 in Kinston, North Carolina.

Paula Dance Is The First Black Woman Elected Sheriff In North Carolina.
Pitt County, NC

Paula Dance Is The First Black Woman Elected Sheriff In North Carolina.
Pitt County, NC

"September 8,1956, N.C. voters approved the Pearsall Plan to prolong segregation & thwart Brown v Board of Education. A committee had decided integration ‘should not be attempted’ because of low support.

Recalling an Era When the Color of Your Skin Meant You Paid to Vote
Celebrating the 50th anniversary of a ruling that made the poll tax unconstitutional

Robert Lee Vann was an African-American newspaper publisher and editor. He was the publisher and editor of the Pittsburgh Courier from 1910 until his death.

Robert Lee Vann was an African-American newspaper publisher and editor. He was the publisher and editor of the Pittsburgh Courier from 1910 until his death

In the 1940s, Rosanell Eaton became one of the first African Americans in North Carolina to successfully register to vote since Reconstruction. In her 90s, she became a vocal opponent of the state's voter ID laws, which disproportionately affected black voters.

Sadie Tanner Mossell Alexander was a pioneer among Black women in United States law and education, and a committed civil rights activist. After earning her master's in 1919 at Penn. she was awarded the Francis Sergeant Pepper fellowship, she was able to continue her studies and in 1921 became the first African American woman in the United States to earn a PhD from an American university.
Finding it difficult to get professorship work in Philadelphia as an African American even with her doctorate, Mossell decided to take an actuarial job with the black-owned North Carolina Mutual Life Insurance Company in Durham, North Carolina, and worked there for two years.

September 1, 1953: In Sarah Keys v. Carolina Coach Company, Keys challenged the “separate but equal” in bus segregation before the Interstate Commerce Commission.

On June 2, 1976, FBI Director Clarence Kelley presented Special Agent Sylvia E. Mathis with her badge and credentials, #2658. She was issued a leather attaché case, an unadorned purse, and a Smith & Wesson revolver with a snub-nosed barrel short enough to fit inside the purse.

October 28, 1958. Two Black Boys, Seven and Nine Years Old, Arrested and Jailed for Over Three Months After White Girl Kissed Them on Their Cheeks.

The Voting Rights Act of 1965 is a landmark piece of federal legislation in the United States that prohibits racial discrimination in voting. It was signed into law by President Lyndon B. Johnson during the height of the civil rights movement on August 6, 1965, and Congress later amended the Act five times to expand its protections.

A few days ago, in celebration of Black History Month, the Winston-Salem Police Department honored some of the first black police officers in the city. But there is a backstory that has been lost in the fog of time.

William Hooper Councill was a teacher, social justice activist, college president, and editor.
He was born in March.22.1849, Or in July 12, 1848.
Council was formerly enslaved and the first president of Huntsville Normal School, which is today Alabama Agricultural and Mechanical University in Normal, Alabama.