My family owned that building. E. A. Brown and later, Madeline Brown Wheless. I graduated from Chapel Hill High, 1966. It was the 1st year we were integrated. I had one young man in one class. Both his name and the class are forgotten now. (Names were never my forte!) I never knew about the sit in at the Colonial Store, until very recently. Thank you. I have Blackwood, Cheek, LLoyd and King relatives that settled Orange County. That was on the maternal side. My paternal side were in Edgecomb, and Nash counties in eastern NC. Rocky Mount. I have figured we had a few enslaved people and I have done some research. It is not easy work, emotionally or otherwise. Thank you for your journalism that helps us realize more about the past.
My family owned that building. E. A. Brown and later, Madeline Brown Wheless. I graduated from Chapel Hill High, 1966. It was the 1st year we were integrated. I had one young man in one class. Both his name and the class are forgotten now. (Names were never my forte!) I never knew about the sit in at the Colonial Store, until very recently. Thank you. I have Blackwood, Cheek, LLoyd and King relatives that settled Orange County. That was on the maternal side. My paternal side were in Edgecomb, and Nash counties in eastern NC. Rocky Mount. I have figured we had a few enslaved people and I have done some research. It is not easy work, emotionally or otherwise. Thank you for your journalism that helps us realize more about the past.