Fred Cockerham

Historical marker location:

Mount Airy, North Carolina

( Marker is on West Oak Street west of West Main Street, on the left when traveling west.)

Marker installed: 2018

November 3, 1905-July 8, 1980.

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.