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Wake County Growth and 1968 Political Struggles | Durham News
In 2004, Wake County Public Schools struggled to keep up with a five-thousand-student enrollment surge, forcing kids to eat lunch as late as 2:30 PM despite seven new schools opening that year—driven by families drawn in by the county’s top-ranked schools. Meanwhile, in 1968, a push for more Black delegates from North Carolina at the Democratic National Convention, led by dentist Reginald Hawkins, was quietly shut down by the credentials committee, highlighting deep racial imbalances in political representation. And a century earlier, in 1926, the governor vanished into Wisconsin vacation…
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