INC NEWS - FW: Resolution of support for state highway marker: Royal Ice ...

Sun Nov 25 19:32:22 EST 2007

I commend the effort, and applaud John Shelp's rounding up the  endorsements. 
Forwarding to Duke Park for their collective opinion.

Bill

In a message dated 11/25/2007 7:19:30 P.M. Eastern Standard Time,  
pats1717 at hotmail.com writes:

Hi  -- I think individual neighborhoods and INC may want to support a marker 
for  the Royal Ice Cream sit-in.  THo maybe we would do it with a few fewer  
whereas's (-:

Forwarded message from John Schelp is  below.

Regards, pat
> 
> Fifty years ago, seven Durham  citizens participated in
> a sit-in at an eatery called the Royal Ice  Cream
> Parlor. This incident is considered by many historians
>  as an important precursor of the modern civil rights
> movement in North  Carolina. 
> 
> We are having success in asking the BoE, Council  and
> BOCC to endorse the resolution. The support has been
>  strong and widespread.
> 
> We feel it's important to have a state  highway marker
> erected at the site. The events of 50 years ago  need
> official recognition from the state.
> 
> We are  asking the InterNeighborhood Council to endorse
> the resolution below  for a state marker.
> 
> Thank you very much for your  consideration.  
> 
> all best,
> 
> John  Schelp
> (group of supporters for the Royal Ice Cream marker)
>  
> *****
> 
> Resolution of Support
> 
> for the  
> 
> December 17, 2007 Appeal
> 
> to the 
>  
> Highway Historic Marker Advisory Committee
> 
> at the  
> 
> Office of Archives and History 
> NC Department of  Cultural Resources
> 
> 
> WHEREAS, the Royal Ice Cream  Parlor Sit-in occurred in
> Durham, North Carolina on June 23, 1957 and  whereas
> this direct action protested the institutionalized
>  racial segregation that existed in the Southern Region
> of the United  States of America; and
> 
> WHEREAS, the social, legal, and  educational
> implications of the actions of seven Durham  citizens
> foreshadowed the civil rights movement that would
>  unfold in North Carolina during the decade of the
> 1960s; and
>  
> WHEREAS, in retrospection, civil rights veterans,
> historians,  and students increasingly point to the
> pivotal nature of the Royal Ice  Cream Parlor sit-in;
> and
> 
> WHEREAS, in 2003, Durham’s  R. Kelly Bryant
> meticulously researched, prepared, and submitted  a
> formal application for an official state historic
> marker to  be cast and erected near the site of the
> Royal Ice Cream Parlor;  and
> 
> WHEREAS, the Highway Historic Marker Advisory
>  Committee of the North Carolina Archives and History
> Department denied  the Bryant request in 2003, citing a
> lack of historical significance;  and
> 
> WHEREAS, several recent publications have  increased
> the comprehensive awareness and the significant
>  linkage of the 1957 events in Durham to the broader
> history of civil  rights in North Carolina; and 
> 
> WHEREAS, the 2006 publication  of the Encyclopedia of
> North Carolina edited by UNC-CH  Professor-Emeritus
> William S. Powell makes several references to  Rev.
> Douglas Moore and the Royal Sit-in.  This reference
>  source also carries a famous photo of the Royal Sit-in
>  participants.  This photo is from the collection of
> Virginia  Williams, who was one of those participants. 
> The photo is a permanent  part of the Durham Civil
> Rights Heritage Project, which is associated  with the
> North Carolina Collection at the Durham County
>  Library; and
> 
> WHEREAS, the 2002 edition of A History  of
> African-Americans in North Carolina by Jeffrey J.
> Crow,  Paul Escott, and Flora J. Hatley mentions that
> the 1957 Durham sit-in  “presages” the modern civil
> rights movement in North  Carolina.   Jeffrey J. Crow
> currently directs the Office of  Archives and History
> and serves as the Deputy Secretary of the  Department
> of Cultural Resources; and 
> 
> WHEREAS, the  2005 book Our Separate Ways: Black Women
> and the Black Freedom  Movement in Durham, North
> Carolina by Christina Greene devotes several  pages to
> the Royal sit-in and its significance to later direct
>  action in other cities in North Carolina and across
> the South; and  
> 
> WHEREAS, The Durham Herald-Sun, The Raleigh News and
>  Observer, The Triangle Tribune, The Durham News, The
> Carolina Times,  The Independent Weekly, Bull City
> Rising, Bull’s Eye, Barry Ragin’s  Blog, other blogs,
> Time-Warner Channel 14, WRAL-TV, WTVD-TV,  other
> television stations, radio, websites, Preservation
>  Durham, The Duke Center for Documentary Studies, The
> NCCU Office of  Archives and Public Life, Durham
> Technical Community College, The  North Carolina
> Collection at the Durham County Library, and
>  word-of-mouth have helped to raise the collective
> consciousness of the  importance of the Royal Sit-in;
> and 
> 
> WHEREAS, the  50th anniversary year is a noteworthy
> milestone that serves to honor  the courage and
> commitment of the Royal Seven and people of  all
> ethnicities and cultures who have worked to eliminate
>  racial segregation and other human barriers; and 
> 
> WHEREAS,  the 50th anniversary year of the 1957 Royal
> Sit-in brings special  motivation and inspiration for
> improved interpersonal relations for  the younger,
> middle, and older citizens of Durham and the  entire
> world; and
> 
> WHEREAS, the audience members at  the recent 50th
> anniversary commemoration of the Royal Sit-in
>  encouraged R. Kelly Bryant to appeal the earlier
> denial by the  Historic Marker Committee;
> 
> NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT  RESOLVED
> 
> That we do hereby support, encourage, and endorse  the
> efforts of R. Kelly Bryant, Virginia Williams, and
> others  in their December 17, 2007 appeal to the
> Highway Historical Marker  Advisory Committee at the
> Office of Archives and History for a  state-sponsored
> marker that commemorates the 1957 Royal Ice  Cream
> Parlor Sit-in in Durham, North Carolina.
> 
>  
> 
> 
>  
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