Hayti District
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Hayti district is the African American
community in Durham, North Carolina
. Over 200 African American businesses were located along Fayetteville, Pettigrew and Pine Streets, the bounties of Hayti. Hayti is home to many nationally known African Americans.
North Carolina Central University
lies within the bounties of Hayti. Founded by James E. Shepard
as the National Religious Training School and Chautauqua. Dr. Shepard was also one of the founding fathers of Hayti along with Aaron McDuffie Moore, John Merrick
and Charles Clinton Spaulding
. James Shepard, Aaron Moore and John Merrick would go on to found North Carolina Mutual Insurance Company, the largest and richest African American company in the world at the time.
Both W.E.B. Dubois and Booker T. Washington
visited Hayti in 1910. Both stated that the community was a model for all African American communities in America to follow.
A Sit-in
advocating the end of racial segregation
happened on June 23,1957 when Hayti's Asbury Methodist Minister Rev. Douglas Elaine Moore leads a group of six other blacks (three women, three men) into segregated Royal Ice Cream Parlor, where they sat down in the white section. They are arrested and Moore turns to young Durham lawyer Floyd McKissick
. The case was appealed all the way to the U.S. Supreme Court. Durham’s black Ministerial Alliance initially opposed Moore’s “radical” efforts, as did the city wide political organization the Durham Committee on Negro Affairs, or DCNA. Participants in the sit-in included: Mary Elizabeth Clyburn, Rev. Douglas Elaine Moore, Claude Edward Glenn, Jesse Willard Gray, Vivian Elaine Jones, Melvin Haywood Willis, and Virginia Lee Williams." Well before February 5, 1960, when four black college freshmen from Agricultural and Technical College of North Carolina -- Joseph McNeil, Franklin McCain, Ezell A. Blair, Jr. (later known as Jibreel Khazan), and David Richmond sat down at a "white-only" Woolworth Department store lunch counter in Greensboro, North Carolina
.
African American
African Americans are citizens or residents of the United States who have at least partial ancestry from any of the native populations of Sub-Saharan Africa and are the direct descendants of enslaved Africans within the boundaries of the present United States...
community in Durham, North Carolina
Durham, North Carolina
Durham is a city in the U.S. state of North Carolina. It is the county seat of Durham County and also extends into Wake County. It is the fifth-largest city in the state, and the 85th-largest in the United States by population, with 228,330 residents as of the 2010 United States census...
. Over 200 African American businesses were located along Fayetteville, Pettigrew and Pine Streets, the bounties of Hayti. Hayti is home to many nationally known African Americans.
North Carolina Central University
North Carolina Central University
North Carolina Central University is a public historically black university in the University of North Carolina system, located in Durham, North Carolina, offering programs at the baccalaureate, master’s, professional and doctoral levels....
lies within the bounties of Hayti. Founded by James E. Shepard
James E. Shepard
James E. Shepard was the founder of what became the only taxpayer-funded liberal arts college for blacks in the nation, North Carolina Central University in Durham, North Carolina.-Personal life and family:...
as the National Religious Training School and Chautauqua. Dr. Shepard was also one of the founding fathers of Hayti along with Aaron McDuffie Moore, John Merrick
John Merrick
John Merrick may refer to:* John Merrick , English ambassador to Russia* John Merrick , African-American founder of North Carolina Mutual & Provident Insurance Company in Durham, North Carolina...
and Charles Clinton Spaulding
Charles Clinton Spaulding
Charles Clinton Spaulding was a prominent business leader who founded North Carolina Mutual Life Insurance Company, which became America's largest black-owned business, with assets of over US$ 40 million at his death....
. James Shepard, Aaron Moore and John Merrick would go on to found North Carolina Mutual Insurance Company, the largest and richest African American company in the world at the time.
Both W.E.B. Dubois and Booker T. Washington
Booker T. Washington
Booker Taliaferro Washington was an American educator, author, orator, and political leader. He was the dominant figure in the African-American community in the United States from 1890 to 1915...
visited Hayti in 1910. Both stated that the community was a model for all African American communities in America to follow.
A Sit-in
Sit-in
A sit-in or sit-down is a form of protest that involves occupying seats or sitting down on the floor of an establishment.-Process:In a sit-in, protesters remain until they are evicted, usually by force, or arrested, or until their requests have been met...
advocating the end of racial segregation
Racial segregation
Racial segregation is the separation of humans into racial groups in daily life. It may apply to activities such as eating in a restaurant, drinking from a water fountain, using a public toilet, attending school, going to the movies, or in the rental or purchase of a home...
happened on June 23,1957 when Hayti's Asbury Methodist Minister Rev. Douglas Elaine Moore leads a group of six other blacks (three women, three men) into segregated Royal Ice Cream Parlor, where they sat down in the white section. They are arrested and Moore turns to young Durham lawyer Floyd McKissick
Floyd McKissick
Floyd Bixler McKissick was born in Asheville, North Carolina on March 9, 1922. He became the first African American student at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill's Law School. In 1966 he became leader of CORE, the Congress of Racial Equality, taking over from James L. Farmer, Jr. A...
. The case was appealed all the way to the U.S. Supreme Court. Durham’s black Ministerial Alliance initially opposed Moore’s “radical” efforts, as did the city wide political organization the Durham Committee on Negro Affairs, or DCNA. Participants in the sit-in included: Mary Elizabeth Clyburn, Rev. Douglas Elaine Moore, Claude Edward Glenn, Jesse Willard Gray, Vivian Elaine Jones, Melvin Haywood Willis, and Virginia Lee Williams." Well before February 5, 1960, when four black college freshmen from Agricultural and Technical College of North Carolina -- Joseph McNeil, Franklin McCain, Ezell A. Blair, Jr. (later known as Jibreel Khazan), and David Richmond sat down at a "white-only" Woolworth Department store lunch counter in Greensboro, North Carolina
Greensboro, North Carolina
Greensboro is a city in the U.S. state of North Carolina. It is the third-largest city by population in North Carolina and the largest city in Guilford County and the surrounding Piedmont Triad metropolitan region. According to the 2010 U.S...
.
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