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David Richmond (from left), Franklin McCain, Ezell Blair Jr., and Joseph McNeil leave the Woolworth in Greensboro, N.C., where they initiated a lunch-counter sit-in to protest segregation, Feb. 1, 1960

After being refused service at a Greensboro, North Carolina Woolworth’s, four African-American men launched a protest that lasted six months and helped change America.

This is a poem in the Daemon from 1969. It is about arbitrary things that occur in America.

Following the Supreme Court's desegregation decision in the Brown v. Board of Education in NC

Picture of Virginius Dabney

Board of Trustees Memo about the admission of two African American students in 1968.

Headmaster Hoxton writes letter to the parents and students announcing the integration of EHS.

Student description of the Sunday night program guest speaker Mrs. Sarah Patton, speaking about civil rights in Pendleton Hall.

A writing contest prize composition on preparing for war and the preparedness movement

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