The first North Carolina Colored State Fair opened in Raleigh on November 18, 1879. The fair was model behind the State Fair held by the State Agricultural Society since the 1850s. In 1879, twenty-two men organized the Colored Industrial Association of North Carolina. Their stated purpose was to improve and educate North Carolina’s African Americans. […]
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