Mount Olive

Historical marker location:

401 Northwest Center Street, Mount Olive, North Carolina

( Marker is at the intersection of Northwest Center Street (County Route 1938) and West College Street, on the left when traveling north on Northwest Center Street.)

Garrard's Raid. Foster's Raid.

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.