This week’s Hometown Hero, presented by Hendrick Southpoint, is Beverly Scarlett.
Scarlett has long been a trailblazer in our community. She was the first black woman to have a solo law practice Hillsborough, the first to serve as an Orange County assistant DA, and eventually the first black woman in Orange County to serve as a district court judge. In her retirement, Judge Scarlett has turned her attention to uncovering some of our community’s long hidden history and shining a spotlight on long forgotten lives in a new book called Sheer Resilience. In her studies, she uncovered free communities of color that existed all over the United States before the Civil War.
Listen to this week’s Hometown Hero segment below, and check in next week for another recognition of someone who is making a difference in our community! Do you have someone who you’d like to nominate as a Hometown Hero? Click here to let us know about the good they’re doing around town!
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