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Receive Final Report and Consider the Recommendations of the Historic Civil Rights Commemorations Task Force.
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Staff:
Department:
Molly Luby, Special Projects Coordinator
Library
Florentine Miller, Deputy Town Manager
Manager's Office
Jerry Neville, Traffic Engineering Technician
Public Works
Susan Brown, Executive Director for Community Arts & Culture
Library
Overview: On September 27, 2017, Mayor Pam Hemminger formed the Historic Civil Rights Commemorations Task Force. The purpose of the task force was to create a timeline that identified people, places and events which should be memorialized in order to remind everyone of the struggle for civil rights that African Americans endured in Chapel Hill in the 1960s.
The purpose of this item is to provide the Council with the task force's findings and recommendations, included in the attached report.
Recommendation(s):
That the Council adopt the resolution to accept the task force's report, dissolve the full task force, authorize the Task Force Chapel Hill Nine Subcommittee to continue to develop a recommendation for a historical marker, and authorize the Town Manager to review the reports and recommendations and discuss next steps. The subcommittee will bring a recommendation report for Council's consideration in Fall 2018.
Key Issues:
* The task force developed a timeline of people, places, and events significant in Chapel Hill's Civil Rights Movement that encompasses the decade from 1960-1969. The timeline is placed in historical context with introductory remarks prepared by task force member Dr. Reginald Hildebrand and concluding remarks prepared by task force members Megan Stanley and Danita Mason-Hogans.
* The task force formed two subcommittees: a working group, tasked with research and drafting the timeline; and the Chapel Hill Nine Subcommittee, tasked with developing recommendations for appropriate and timely commemorations. Between November and June, members met a total of 13 times, wit...
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