The following is a of the history of the city of Durham, North Carolina, USA.
19th century
20th century
- 1901
- "Durham City limits quadruple in size."
- Lincoln Hospital established.
- 1906
- Durham Chamber of Commerce established.
- Immaculate Conception Catholic Church built.http://icdurham.org/index.php/en/about-us/parish-history
- 1908 - St. Joseph's Episcopal Church built.
- 1909
- Arcade Theatre built.
- Ebenezer Baptist Church established.
- 1910 - Population: 18,241.
- 1913 - Durham Colored Library founded.
- 1919 - Carolina Times newspaper begins publication.
- 1923
- Blacknall Memorial Presbyterian Church built
- National Religious Training School and Chautauqua opens.
- 1924
- Trinity College renamed "Duke University".
- Trinity United Methodist Church built
- 1925
- North Carolina College for Negroes active.
- Daisy Scarborough Nursery School founded.
- Asbury Temple Methodist Church built
- Watts Street Baptist Church built
- Trinity Avenue Presbyterian Church built
- 1926
- Duke University's Divinity School established.
- Asbury United Methodist Church built
- 1927
- First Baptist Church built
- 1930
- Ephphatha Church built.
- Duke University's School of Medicine opens.
- Population: 52,037.
- 1933
- Desegregation lawsuit Hocutt v. Wilson filed.
- Calvert Method School founded.
- 1934 - WDNC radio begins broadcasting.
- 1936 - Three Arts founded.
- 1939
- North Carolina College for Negroes law school established.
- Center Theatre opens.
- 1944 - Durham Labor Journal begins publication.
- 1945 - Durham Drive-In cinema opens.
- 1950 - Population: 73,368.
- 1954 - WTVD (television) begins broadcasting.
- 1955 - Raleigh-Durham Airport terminal opens.
- 1957 - June 23: Royal Ice Cream Sit-in protest for civil rights.
- 1958 - Durham Redevelopment Commission and Research Triangle Institute founded.
- 1959 - Research Triangle Park established.
- 1960 - Population: 84,642.
- 1961 - Durham Industrial Education Center opens.
- 1962 - Carolina Friends School and Bennett Place state historic site
- 1964 - Anti-poverty Operation Breakthrough (program) established.
- 1966 - United Organizations for Community Improvement formed.
- 1968 - City Human Relations Commission and Women-in-Action for the Prevention of Violence and Its Causes established.
- 1969
- March 11: Student demonstration.
- North Carolina Central University active.
- Duke University's School of Business and Museum of Art established.
- 1970
- Institute for Southern Studies headquartered in Durham.
- Population: 100,768 city; 446,074 metro.
- 1972 - Durham Voters Alliance founded.
- 1974 - Duke Homestead and Tobacco Factory state historic site established.
- 1975 - Ar-Razzaq Islamic Center founded.
- 1980 - Population: 100,831 city; 560,774 metro.
- 1985 - Atlantic Coast Sikh Association headquartered in Durham.
- 1990 - Population: 154,580 city; 735,480 metro.
- 1991
- Herald-Sun newspaper in publication.
- Carmike Cinema 7 in business.
- 1993 - Sylvia Kerckhoff becomes mayor.
- 1995 - Old West Durham Neighborhood Association established.
- 1997
- City website online (approximate date).
- Nick Tennyson becomes mayor.
- 1998
- Triangle Tribune newspaper begins publication.
- WRAZ (TV) begins broadcasting from Durham.
- 2000 - Population: 187,035 city; 1,187,941 metro.
21st century
See also
References
Bibliography
Published in the 20th century
- Story of Durham: City of the New South, William Boyd (1925)
- Durham, NC: A Center of Education and Industry (1926)
- . + Chronology
- Durham: A Pictorial History, by Joel Kostyu (1978)
- Durham Architectural and Historic Inventory. Published by the City of Durham (1982)
Published in the 21st century
- Bull Durham: Business Bonanza, BWC Roberts and Snow E. Roberts (2002)
- Our Separate Ways: Women and The Black Freedom Movement in Durham, North Carolina, Christina Greene (2005)
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