NC LEGISLATIVE CAUCUS COMMEMORATE
50TH ANNIVERSARY OF 1964
CIVIL RIGHTS ACT
RALEIGH, NC - Comedian DJ, Comedian JT Hart and RALEIGH, NC - Members of
North Carolina Legislative Black Caucus held a press conference Wednesday, July
2, 2014 at the General Assembly to commemorate the 50th Anniversary of the
1964 Civil Rights Act. In 1964, President Lyndon Johnson signed the Civil Rights
Act into law. Fifty years later, few pieces of legislation have defined our national
identity as distinctly, or as powerfully. By outlawing discrimination based on
race, color, religion, sex, or national origin, the Civil Rights Act effectively ended
segregation in schools, workplaces, and public facilities. It opened the door for
the Voting Rights Act, and the Fair Housing Act. And it transformed the concepts
of justice, equality, and democracy for generations to come. Caucus Chairman Rep.
Garland Pierce is at the podium with (pictured L-R) Rep. Mickey Michaux, Rep.
Rodney Moore, Rep. Evelyn Terry, Sen. Floyd B. McKissick, Jr., Sen. Angela Bryant
and Rep. Nathan Baskerville standing with him in support. (PHOTO: Greg Coats)
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DR. MAYA ANGELOU’S
HOMEGOING CELEBRATION
WINSTON SALEM, NC – Dr. Maya Angelou, 86, famed poet,
actress and activist, died early the morning of May 28 at
her home in Winston-Salem, NC after a long illness. Funeral
services were held Saturday June 7 on the campus of Wake
Forest University. Spectacular Magazine Photographer Greg
Coats (below) was in front of the University’s Wait Chapel,
the site of the funeral, when heads of states and other
dignitaries arrived to attend the private service. Prior to
her death, Dr. Angelou had been a faculty member at Wake
Forest since 1982. (PHOTOS: Greg Coats)
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