Wm. T. Dortch

Historical marker location:

262 East Ash Street, Goldsboro, North Carolina

( Marker is at the intersection of East Ash Street (U.S. 70) and North William Street, on the right when traveling east on East Ash Street.)

Marker installed: 1949

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.