James I. Waddell

Historical marker location:

128 Hillsboro Street, Pittsboro, North Carolina

( Marker is on Hillsboro Street (U.S. 15/501) north of East Salisbury Street, on the right when traveling north.)

Marker installed: 1939

In the 1960s, North Carolina was a center of the civil rights movement, with Greensboro being the site of the first sit-in protests in the country.