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Western Carolina University accepted the school’s first African American student in 1957. Levern Hamlin was the first black student to be admitted and enrolled in a predominantly white state-supported college in North Carolina, according to…

Arguably Western Carolina University’s best basketball player, Henry Lee Logan was a scoring machine known for being the first black athlete in the Southeast to play at a principally white college. Logan was born on March 14, 1946, and began his…

• Noting a “lack of supervised activities and the absence of a place to facilitate those activities,” the Pigeon Community Development Club presented the Haywood County Board of Commissioners with a proposal to create a “unified community club” at…

Harris Chapel AME Zion is an African Methodist Episcopal Zion church located in Canton, North Carolina. The church has been around since the late 1800s and traditional worship services are still held there today. The current pastor is Reverend James…