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Northside built
Northside is built to house African-American workers for UNC. -
Lincoln High School built
Lincoln High School is built, seperating the African Americans and the whites from going to school together. -
the Rock Wall
The sit-ins in the Colonial Drugstore are planned by teenagers living in Northside. They met at the rock wall, which was a popular spot in the neighborhood that everyone knew. -
Sit-Ins at Colonial Drug Store
Living History Journal of Eyewitness
Students at Lincoln High hold sit-ins at the Colonial Drug Store because African-Americans are not allowed to sit down there. They face police resistance. -
MLK speaks at Hargraves
Martin Luther King Jr. speaks at Hargraves Community center. -
Schools become integrated
Schools in Chapel Hill become fully integrated, but racial boundaries persist in bullying and other incidents. -
EmPOWERment Inc. is formed
A nonprofit organization called EmPOWERment is formed to assist African-Americans and their neighborhoods with affordable housing and economic problems.
