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WVEC (channel 13) is a television station licensed to Hampton, Virginia, United States, serving the Hampton Roads area as an affiliate of ABC. The station is owned by Tegna Inc. , and maintains studios on Woodis Avenue in Norfolk ; its transmitter is located in Suffolk, Virginia .
The Greensboro sit-ins were a series of nonviolent protests in February to July 1960, primarily in the Woolworth store — now the International Civil Rights Center and Museum — in Greensboro, North Carolina, [1] which led to the F. W. Woolworth Company department store chain removing its policy of racial segregation in the Southern United States. [2]
[11] 51% of North Carolina voters chose a Democrat for their US house representative, but Republicans won 9 of the 13 seats up for election. [ 12 ] The state House passed legislation that would require voters to present government-issued photo identification, provided by the state free of charge, [ 13 ] in order to vote and would repeal same ...
The Department of Justice told North Carolina's governor that a new state law limiting restroom access for transgender people violates the Civil Rights Act. ... News. Need help? Call us! 800-290-4726.
In 1983, Henry McCollum and Leon Brown were convicted or raping and murdering an 11-year-old girl in Red Springs North Carolina. After 31 years of maintaining their innocence in prison, the two ...
Chris Sgro, executive director of Equality North Carolina, said "Today's ruling allowing loving, same-sex couples to marry across North Carolina is a historic moment for our state. With it, we celebrate with so many North Carolinians who have worked tirelessly over decades to change hearts, minds, and unequal laws in the state we call home.
The North Carolina PCB Protest of 1982 was a nonviolent activist movement in Warren County, North Carolina, a predominantly black community where the state disposed of soil laced with polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs). The toxins leaked into the local water supply and sparked protests in which hundreds of people were arrested. [1]
Additional image of Civil Rights protestors executing a sit-in at a Woolworth's in Durham, North Carolina on February 10th of 1960. Sit-ins were by far the most prominent in 1960, however, they were still a useful tactic in the civil rights movement in the years to come.