Photograph: Nine African-American women gather for the Banner State Woman's National Baptist Convention in 1915 (Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA)

Anna (Annie) A. Clemmons, 1890 -1956.
Southport, North Carolina

There is evidence from her grave marker that Anna Clemmons had a daughter, but we have not discovered her name at this time. Anna Clemmons was a nurse who worked with Dr. J. Arthur Dosher in Southport, North Carolina.

Anna (Annie) A. Clemmons, 1890 -1956.
Southport, North Carolina

There is evidence from her grave marker that Anna Clemmons had a daughter, but we have not discovered her name at this time. Anna Clemmons was a nurse who worked with Dr. J. Arthur Dosher in Southport, North Carolina.

Farmers voting in cotton referendum, Wake County, 1953.

Source: PhC.23 FCX - Photo Collection - Archives State of NC [PhC_23_1_510_7 )

Pictured is Eva Clayton filing for office in North Carolina’s primary elections, on February 25, 1968.

This was Clayton’s first attempt seeking election to congress—an effort encouraged by civil rights activist Vernon Jordan.

She gained 31 percent of the vote in the Democratic primary that year with Lawrence H. Fountain prevailing. Although losing, her bid for a congressional seat mobilized a community and significantly increased Black voter registration.

The Honorable Eva M. Clayton
Eva Clayton was born on September 16,1934. She is an African American politician (retired) and administrator.
Clayton was elected to the 102nd Congress, she became the first African American Representative from North Carolina since George White, who left Congress in 1901.

On this day January 29, 1901, North Carolina Congressman George H. White delivered his now-famous "Phoenix" Farewell Address.

*He was attentive to local issues and appointed many blacks in his district to federal positions. After the passage of legislation disfranchising black voters, White declined nomination to a third term, saying “I can no longer live in North Carolina and be treated as a man.” In his farewell speech he stated that “Phoenix-like he (the negro) will rise up some day and come again (to Congress).” *

Henry Frye: Was The First African-American On The N.C. Supreme Court

Photograph: Henry Frye being sworn into the N.C. Supreme Court.
( State Archives, courtesy of the News & Observer)

Henry Frye was born August 1, 1932 in Ellerbe, Richmond County, North Carolina. He was 8th of 12 children, born to Walter Atlas and Pearl Motley Frye. He went to the Ellerbe Colored High School, but by accident he obtained a diploma from Ellerbe High School, the white one.

Henry Plummer Cheatham
Born: December 27, 1857, (near Henderson) Granville County, North Carolina, NC
Died: November 29, 1935, Oxford, NC
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"Born into slavery in what is now Henderson, North Carolina, Henry Cheatham was the child of an enslaved domestic worker about who little is known. An adolescent after the American Civil War, Cheatham benefited from country’s short lived commitment to provide educational opportunities to all children.

James B. Dudley, colored president of a state school in Greensboro, N. C. spoke against Black women voting. Encouraged them to stay home and keep the home and not meddle in politics. @IrememberOurHistory®

Source: The Crisis, Vol. 21, No. 5. page 10, March, 1921.

James Edward O’Hara (1844–1905)
James Edward O’Hara was born on February 26, 1844, reportedly in New York City, and died in New Bern, North Carolina, on September 15, 1905.

One of four black congressmen elected from North Carolina’s Second District— called the “Black Second” for its black-majority population—during the late 19th century, O’Hara was easily the state’s most flamboyant and controversial black officeholder of the era. He was elected to two terms in Congress (1883–1887) despite lingering charges of bigamy and corruption, and a controversy over his actual birthplace and his claim to U.S. citizenship.

James Hunter Young (October 26, 1858 – April 11, 1921) was an American soldier and politician from Near Henderson, North Carolina. He was a colonel in the Third North Carolina Regiment during the Spanish–American War and served in the North Carolina House of Representatives.

Photograph of Mr. John Campbell Dancy, Jr.
8 May 1857–13 Apr. 1920.

Published in 1908.
Source: internet archives .

John Campbell Dancy Jr., editor and public official, was born in Tarboro, the son of John C. Dancy, Sr., an enslaved person who became a freeman and, after the Civil War, was a builder and contractor and an Edgecombe County commissioner.

Jordan H. Dancy. Dancy was one of the first African Americans to be elected to the North Carolina House of Representatives in 1896. He represented the Tarboro District in the legislature for two years before the Wilmington Race Riots disenfranchised African Americans.

His granddaughter, Mittie Miller, said that he was born into slavery in 1860 and emancipated at five-years-old after the Emancipation Proclamation was ratified in December of 1865.

‪#OTDIH #OTD "September 8,1956, N.C. voters approved the Pearsall Plan to prolong segregation & thwart Brown v Board of Education. A committee had decided integration ‘should not be attempted’ because of low support. Local votes on integration & vouchers for private tuition were est. All measures of the plan were unconstitutional."
Source
https://www.ncdcr.gov/blog/2016/09/08/half-measure-pearsall-plan-target-of-critics‬

Image: Cover of Trade of Puerto Rico - Personal explanation - speeches of Hon. George H. White of North Carolina, in the House of Representatives, Monday, February 5, and Friday, February 23, 1900.
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