This week, Scott and Aaron remember the Stonewall riots, the fight against racial segregation – and the people who willingly sacrificed their own comfort and personal best interests so that future generations could have justice. Also this week: a 19th-century effort to generate rain with loud noise, an equally dubious attempt to prevent damaging hail – and a seemingly dubious (but ultimately successful) effort to bike around the world, by a woman who’d only just learned how to ride.
97.9 The Hill WCHL and Chapelboro.com are your headquarters for local news and local voices in Chapel Hill-Carrboro. Every Thursday morning, local historian Scott Washington joins 97.9 The Hill’s Aaron Keck for “History Matters,” a look back at notable events and significant figures from this week in history, ranging from pioneers to writers to inventors to civil rights champions and more, locally, nationally, and beyond.
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