N Carolina County Adds Historical Markers for Black Heroes
A big deal, as Wilson is in eastern NC once the hotbed of peckerwoods
Wilson County plans to add four new historical markers this year to commemorate African-American heroes, including a 1946 effort to organize tobacco workers.
Wilson County plans to add four new historical markers this year to commemorate African-American heroes, including a 1946 effort to organize tobacco workers.
Called Operation Dixie, the unionization effort was led by black women demanding better working conditions in the tobacco industry.
“They led a walk-out, and this was particularly significant because they were minority women leading this walkout, and it really started a movement,” B. Perry Morrison, Jr., representing the Wilson County Historical Association, told members of the Wilson tourism board.
The state unveiled a historical marker in Rocky Mount in 2011. The local chapter of the Tobacco Workers International Union formed in Wilson in 1946.
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