Thursday, July 15, 2004 :::
Did You Know Department
On July 4, 1868, the General Assembly passed the Fourteenth Amendment to the Constitution, establishing citizenship for African Americans and returning North Carolina to the Union.
On July 12, 1833, Frankie Silver was the first woman in North Carolina executed by hanging after a Burke County jury decided she used an ax to chop up her husband into bits before burning them in a fireplace.
On July 21, 1820, Anthony Metcalf of Virginia was jailed in Roxboro for being married to at least 14 women throughout North Carolina
On July 25, 1941, the Smithfield Herald noted that local girl Ava Gardner was leaving for Hollywood to begin a career in acting.
On July 30, 1935, a white mob lynched a black man after taking him from the Franklin County Sheriff's custody. This was the last lynching in North Carolina in which the killers were left unpunished.
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