her voice: revolutionary north carolina women

For the final installment of this month’s series, “Her Voice: Revolutionary North Carolina Women,” we go back to the 19th Century, to a town just outside of Charlotte and a time before women had th

At the turn of the 20th Century, a 19-year-old African-American woman from Henderson, N.C., began building a school – the Palmer Memorial Institute – that would educate more than 1,000 black youth.

Fifteen years before Rosa Parks refused to move to the back of the bus, another woman refused to give up her seat.

In the latest installment of our series “Her Voice: Revolutionary North Carolina Women,” we look at one of the first

This month WFDD will be taking a look at the stories of pioneering leaders in our series, "Her Voice: Revolutionary North Carolina Women."