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Raleigh’s Forgotten Oddities and Protests | Durham News
In 2010, 19 activists were arrested in Wake County for protesting a shift to “neighborhood schools,” fearing it would reverse decades of desegregation progress—led by Rev. William Barber II, they chanted “moving forward, not backward” as they were removed from a school board meeting in handcuffs. Meanwhile, Raleigh’s 1990 attempt to beautify the I-440 Beltline with 550 dogwood trees failed miserably—over half died due to heat, late planting, and cramped space. In 1961, the glamorous Velvet Cloak Inn on Hillsborough Street, famed for its New Orleans flair and doorman in a top hat, hosted…
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