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Lettie Pate Barwick
February 7, Shaun Johnson
February 3, , 80, Mount Olive &#;
Mrs. Lettie Pate Barwick, 80, of Summerlin&#;s Crossroads, Mount Olive, passed away early Friday, Feb. 3, at ECU Healthcare in Greenville following injuries from a fall.
Mrs. Barwick was a pillar in the Summerlin&#;s Crossroads community as she quietly served her family, church, and fellow man. She had been employed as an insurance clerk, first at Duplin General Hospital, and later at Goshen Medical Center, from which she retired. She was a life-long member of Rooty Branch Free Will Baptist Church and had been its long-time treasurer. She also led an active role with Oak Wolfe Volunteer Fire Department Ladies Auxiliary.
Visitation will be Monday, February 6, from 6 until 8 p.m. at ROOTY BRANCH CHURCH. Funeral services will be held Tuesday, February 7, at 2 p.m. at TYNDALL FUNERAL HOME, and will be officiated by her long-time pastor, the Rev. Mickey Whitfield. Burial will follow in the Jimmy Barwick Family Cemetery. In lieu of flowers, memorials are requested to be made to Rooty Branch Church, c/o Mrs. Frederick Rouse, Red Hill Road, Albertson, NC , or to Oak Ridge Community Building Fund, c/o Mrs. John Sullivan, John Lewis Grady Road, Mount Olive, NC
Mrs. Barwick is survived by
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Children's Book Exhibition at the High To Tell Stories of the Civil Rights Movement
ATLANTA, July 9, — This summer, the High Museum of Art will premiere “Picture the Dream: The Story of the Civil Rights Movement through Children’s Books” (Aug. 15–Nov. 8, ), an exhibition organized in collaboration with The Eric Carle Museum of Picture Book Art.
The exhibition is the first of its kind to delve into the events, people and themes of the civil rights movement, both celebrated and forgotten, through one of the most compelling forms of visual expression, the children’s picture book. The more than 80 artworks on view, ranging from paintings and prints to collages and drawings, will evoke the power and continuing relevance of the era that shaped American history and continues to reverberate today.
The year marks the anniversary of several key events from the civil rights movement. Sixty-five years ago, in , Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat on a segregated bus in Montgomery, Alabama. Five years later, Ruby Bridges integrated her New Orleans elementary school, and four Black students catalyzed the sit-in movement at the segregated Woolworth’s lunch counter in Greensboro, North Carolina.
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