Dusty Marie

Throughout its history, the Rosenwald Fund provided financial support and modern educational facilities for numerous struggling black students in North Carolina’s rural communities. Pictured here is the Rosenwald funded Banks…

Harriet Powers was born into slavery in 1837 in Athens, Georgia. Following the Civil War and Emancipation, Powers and her husband became landowners, and in 1886, she completed her well-admired…

On the day following the Supreme Court’s decision banning segregation in public schools, dailies across North Carolina broke the news of the ruling. The Asheville Citizen, in the mountain region…