It's Friday afternoon; I'm working furiously to finish my paper on jurisprudence at UVA before the Civil War. Tons of good things to talk about down the road — including the extraordinary James Holcombe, who came from an antislavery family and was zealously, zealously proslavery. And Albert Taylor Bledsoe and some more obscure characters. I'll be posting on this in early April, I hope.
… Right now it's time for what I think will be my final civil rights trivia question for a while. What's the building at right and where is it? That's the easy part. What was it during the civil rights era, and why was it important?
Shout out to David Garrow for suggesting this series of posts.
Colonial Drugstore where high school students staged some sort of protest at a soda fountain?
Currently the West End Wine Bar at 450 West Franklin Street in Chapel Hill. Brando is correct that it is the former Colonial Drugstore, site of some famous Chapel Hill sit-ins.
You're both right. It was the site of the Colonial Drug Store. Here's a link to an advertisement that the proprietor took out in the Chapel Hill News regarding integration — on the UNC library website, of course!
http://www.lib.unc.edu/mss/exhibits/protests/pop_catalog4.html
Also, you may enjoy this article with Civil Rights Era photographs and recent photos of the same locations:
http://reesenews.org/2012/02/13/civil-rights-movement-photographer-jim-wallace-to-speak-at-unc/32679/