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The annual North Carolina Veterans Day Parade and Ceremony is set for this weekend. The 2022 parade will start early Saturday morning in downtown and end with a ceremony honoring veterans from ...
The Wilmington insurrection of 1898, also known as the Wilmington massacre of 1898 or the Wilmington coup of 1898, [ 6] was a coup d'état and a massacre which was carried out by white supremacists in Wilmington, North Carolina, United States, on Thursday, November 10, 1898. [ 7] The white press in Wilmington originally described the event as a ...
The North Carolina Red Shirts were a conglomerate of all social classes, including teachers, farmers, merchants and some elite members of the Democratic Party. [17] From that day on, Red Shirts chapters were particularly active in the southeastern part of North Carolina, including "New Hanover, Brunswick, Columbus, and Robeson counties", all of ...
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The city has issued permits for other parades with motorized vehicles this year including the Raleigh St. Patrick’s Day and, as recently as two weeks ago the Broughton High School Homecoming parade.
Willie Stargell. Wilver Dornell Stargell (March 6, 1940 – April 9, 2001), nicknamed " Pops " later in his career, was an American professional baseball left fielder and first baseman who spent all of his 21 seasons in Major League Baseball (MLB) ( 1962 – 1982) with the Pittsburgh Pirates. Among the most feared power hitters in baseball ...
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William B. Gould was born in Wilmington, North Carolina, on November 18, 1837, [2] to an enslaved woman, Elizabeth "Betsy" Moore, [a] and Alexander Gould, an English-born resident of Granville County, NC. [4] He was enslaved by Nicholas Nixon, a peanut planter [5] [6] who owned a large plantation on Porters Neck [7] and at Rocky Point.