Handcuffed activists, dead dogwoods, Velvet Cloak – This day in Triangle history

A daily look at some of The News & Observer headlines on this date in past years.

On this day in 2010, police arrested 19 people protesting the switch to “neighborhood schools,” a move they believed would resegregate Wake County.

Led by the Rev. William Barber II, activists marched downtown and arrived at the Wake County schools building arguing that ending school assignment based on economic background would end decades of racial progress…

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