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The eighth annual Martin Luther King Jr. wreath-laying at King Park in Roanoke Rapids has been rescheduled to January 23 at 2 p.m.
The eighth annual Martin Luther King Jr. wreath-laying at King Park in Roanoke Rapids has been rescheduled to January 23 at 2 p.m.
The Keys v. Carolina Coach Company case was the first in decades to challenge the 1896 Plessy v. Ferguson verdict in which the United States Supreme Court ruled that separate but equal was the law of the land, Congressman G.K. Butterfield told the audience at the unveiling of a highway marker recognizing the Keys case.
Officials and organizers this afternoon stood at the former bus station where Sarah Keys Evans was arrested in 1952 for refusing to give up her seat to a White Marine to unveil a state historic marker designating her actions which led to a landmark civil rights case.
Barnburner Promotions presented 1991 Academy of Country Music’s Vocal Group of the Year, Shenandoah Friday night at The Roanoke Rapids Theatre.
The National Weather Service Raleigh bureau is predicting multiple inches of snow along and north of Interstate 85 while areas in the Sandhills, Western Coastal Plains counties and northern I-95 are expected to see freezing rain which will change to rain during the afternoon Sunday.
