Weldon Edwards

Historical marker location:

Norlina, North Carolina

( Marker is at the intersection of U.S. 1 and Ridgeway-Drewry Road (North Carolina Highway 1224), on the right when traveling north on U.S. 1.)

Marker installed: 2011

1788-1873.

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.