March 28: Happy Birthday! Katharine King Johnson
Katharine King Bahnson de Braganca Johnson was born in Leaksville in 1921. She graduated from Salem College, where she was Queen of the May in 1941, the year she graduated. Also in 1941, she...
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March 28, 1968: Land Cleared for Convention Center
On this day in 1968, the front page of the Winston-Salem Journal showed a photo of the nearly-cleared 500 block of North Cherry Street. The photograph is facing north, with Marshall Street at left, Cherry...