President Woodrow Wilson’s war declaration in April 1917 tasked able-bodied American men with the very great responsibility of defending our nation from a foreign enemy. But it was not a burden they shouldered alone. Every segment of American society mobilized behind the Allied war effort.
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On May 26, 1949, actress Pam Grier was born in Winston-Salem.
On May 16, 1804, Salem Academy opened the doors of its new dormitory, South Hall, to students and officially transitioned from a day school to a boarding school.
On April 6, 1959, pioneering photographer Bayard Wootten died in New Bern.
On March 4, 1861, successful African American dressmaker Elizabeth Keckley met soon-to-be First Lady Mary Todd Lincoln for the first time at the Willard Hotel in Washington, D.C.
On February 27, 1964, black feminist activist, scholar and educator Anna Julia Haywood Cooper died at the age of 105.