North Carolina Central University is a public historically black university in Durham, North Carolina, United States. Founded by James E. Shepard in affiliation with the Chautauqua movement in 1909, i
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Statue of NCCU founder James E. Shepard. James E. Shepard was also a pharmacist, civil servant and educator. He served as the first president of NCCU for nearly 40 years.
James E. Shepard, c. 1947, founder of the National Religious Training School and Chautauqua for the Colored Race
North Carolina Central University entrance seen from S. Alston Avenue
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Herman Ike Boone was an American high school football coach who coached the 1971 T. C. Williams High School football team to a 13–0 season, state championship, and national runner-up. That season late
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…medalist Dan Blue 1970 multiple African-American "firsts": North Carolina Speaker of the House; president of National Conference of State Legislatures Herman Boone 1958 former high school football coach, profiled in the motion picture Remember the Titans Julia Boseman 1992 State Senator (North Carolina) Jim…
Boone in January 2008