Winston-Salem’s Bailey Park Opens
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Today In Winston-Salem History
Reynolds High (Winston-Salem) completes integration process.
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Reynolds Health Center opens in Winston-Salem.
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Patterson Avenue Overpass Opens in Winston-Salem
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Black students from Winston-Salem Teachers College and white students from Wake Forest College were arrested during a lunch-counter sit-in that helped build support for voluntary desegregation.
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Carl Wesley Matthews sat down at a whites-only lunch counter in Winston-Salem and asked to be served, launching a local sit-in movement.
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On February 5, 1960, in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, ten Black students from Winston-Salem Teachers College and eleven white students from Wake Forest College were arrested during a lunch counter sit-in at Woolworth’s
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On February 8, 1960, Carl Wesley Matthews, a Black resident of Winston-Salem, sat down alone at a whites-only lunch counter at a local department store (S.H. Kress) and asked to be served
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Regional Timeline
Winston-Salem’s Bailey Park Opens
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Reynolds High (Winston-Salem) completes integration process.
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Reynolds Health Center opens in Winston-Salem.
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Patterson Avenue Overpass Opens in Winston-Salem
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Black students from Winston-Salem Teachers College and white students from Wake Forest College were arrested during a lunch-counter sit-in that helped build support for voluntary desegregation.
Winston-Salem
Carl Wesley Matthews sat down at a whites-only lunch counter in Winston-Salem and asked to be served, launching a local sit-in movement.
Winston-Salem
On February 5, 1960, in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, ten Black students from Winston-Salem Teachers College and eleven white students from Wake Forest College were arrested during a lunch counter sit-in at Woolworth’s
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On February 8, 1960, Carl Wesley Matthews, a Black resident of Winston-Salem, sat down alone at a whites-only lunch counter at a local department store (S.H. Kress) and asked to be served
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NC history materials note that by February 8, 1960, sit-ins had spread from Greensboro into Winston-Salem.
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Western Electric Expands Winston-Salem Plant
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Wake Forest histories place the groundbreaking for the Reynolda campus on October 15, 1951.
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One of the first municipal courses in the region, tied to tobacco baron R.J. Reynolds’ civic development projects.
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Reynolds Tobacco announces major hiring expansion in Winston-Salem
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Winston-Salem's best-known doughnut brand traces its first local shop to July 13, 1937.
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Winston-Salem Textile Workers Strike
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On May 13, 1913, Winston and Salem officially combined, creating the modern city of Winston-Salem.
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Winston-Salem installs electric streetlights citywide.
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The joining formed the modern city of Winston-Salem, transforming commerce in the region.
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Featured Archive
1960 · Winston-Salem lunch-counter sit-in begins
1913 · Winston and Salem merge into a single city
1766 · Moravian town of Salem begins
1766 · Founding of Salem, North Carolina
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