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Chapel Hill renames transit headquarters after town’s first Black Mayor Howard Lee, his wife Lillian also a history maker
CHAPEL HILL, N.C. (WTVD) — Many local municipalities recognized Juneteenth this year, including the town of Chapel Hill. Leaders honored the town’s first Black mayor by renaming the transit facility after him. Howard Lee became Chapel Hill’s first African-American mayor in 1969. He would go on to hold office for two terms and helped to […]
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