Timeline of Durham, North Carolina

The following is a timeline of the history of the city of Durham, North Carolina, USA.

This is a dynamic list and may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness. You can help by expanding it with reliably sourced entries.

19th century

• 1865 - April 26: Confederate "Johnston surrenders to Sherman at Bennett House, near Durham."[1]
• 1867 - Durham incorporated.[2]
• 1869 - Union Bethel African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church founded in Hayti.[3]
• 1880 - Population: 2,041.[4]
• 1881
  • Town becomes seat of newly established Durham County.[2][5]
  • W. Duke Sons & Company tobacco manufacturer in business.[6]
• 1887
  • Durham Hebrew Congregation established (approximate date).[7]
  • Main Street Methodist Church built.[8]
• 1888 - Emmanuel AME Church built.
• 1889
  • Durham Daily Sun newspaper in publication.[9]
  • First Christian and Missionary Alliance Church founded.[10]
• 1890 - Population: 5,485.[4]
• 1891 - St. Joseph's African Methodist Episcopal Church built.
• 1892 - Trinity College relocates to Durham.
• 1894 - Morning Herald newspaper in publication.[9]
• 1898 - North Carolina Mutual Life Insurance Company in business.[11]

20th century

• 1901
  • "Durham City limits quadruple in size."[12]
  • Lincoln Hospital established.[13]
• 1906
  • Durham Chamber of Commerce established.[10]
  • Immaculate Conception Catholic Church built.[14]
• 1908 - St. Joseph's Episcopal Church built.
• 1909
  • Arcade Theatre built.[15]
  • Ebenezer Baptist Church established.[8]
• 1910 - Population: 18,241.[4]
• 1913 - Durham Colored Library founded.[12]
• 1919 - Carolina Times newspaper begins publication.[9][16]
• 1923 - National Religious Training School and Chautauqua opens.[11]
• 1924 - Trinity College renamed "Duke University".[1]
• 1925
  • North Carolina College for Negroes active.
  • Daisy Scarborough Nursery School founded.[17]
• 1926 - Duke University's Divinity School established.[18]
• 1930
  • Ephphatha Church built.
  • Duke University's School of Medicine opens.[18]
  • Population: 52,037.[4]
• 1933
  • Desegregation lawsuit Hocutt v. Wilson filed.
  • Calvert Method School founded.[19]
• 1934 - WDNC radio begins broadcasting.[20]
• 1936 - Three Arts founded.[10]
• 1939
  • North Carolina College for Negroes law school established.
  • Center Theatre opens.[15]
• 1944 - Durham Labor Journal begins publication.[9]
• 1945 - Durham Drive-In cinema opens.[15]
• 1950 - Population: 73,368.[4]
• 1954 - WTVD (television) begins broadcasting.[21]
• 1955 - Raleigh-Durham Airport terminal opens.[11]
• 1957 - June 23: Royal Ice Cream Sit-in protest for civil rights.[11]
• 1958 - Durham Redevelopment Commission[22] and Research Triangle Institute[19] founded.
• 1959 - Research Triangle Park established.
• 1960 - Population: 84,642.[4]
• 1961 - Durham Industrial Education Center opens.
• 1962 - Carolina Friends School[19] and Bennett Place state historic site[23]
• 1964 - Anti-poverty Operation Breakthrough (program) established.
• 1966 - United Organizations for Community Improvement formed.[24]
• 1968 - City Human Relations Commission[24] and Women-in-Action for the Prevention of Violence and Its Causes[17][24] established.
• 1969
  • March 11: Student demonstration.[11][18]
  • North Carolina Central University active.
  • Duke University's School of Business and Museum of Art established.[18]
• 1970
  • Institute for Southern Studies headquartered in Durham.
  • Population: 100,768 city;[4] 446,074 metro.
• 1972 - Durham Voters Alliance founded.[10]
• 1974 - Duke Homestead and Tobacco Factory state historic site established.[23]
• 1975 - Ar-Razzaq Islamic Center founded.[14]
• 1980 - Population: 100,831 city;[4] 560,774 metro.
• 1985 - Atlantic Coast Sikh Association headquartered in Durham.[14]
• 1990 - Population: 154,580 city;[4] 735,480 metro.
• 1991
  • Herald-Sun newspaper in publication.[9]
  • Carmike Cinema 7 in business.[15]
• 1993 - Sylvia Kerckhoff becomes mayor.[4]
• 1995 - Old West Durham Neighborhood Association established.[10]
• 1997
  • City website online (approximate date).[25]
  • Nick Tennyson becomes mayor.[4]
• 1998
  • Triangle Tribune newspaper begins publication.[9][16]
  • WRAZ (TV) begins broadcasting from Durham.
• 2000 - Population: 187,035 city;[26] 1,187,941 metro.

21st century

• 2001 - Bill Bell becomes mayor.[4]
• 2002 - Buddhist Mindfulness Practice Center founded.[14]
• 2004 - G. K. Butterfield becomes U.S. representative for North Carolina's 1st congressional district.[27]
• 2005 - Duke University's Nasher Museum of Art building opens.[18]
• 2006 - Duke lacrosse scandal occurs.[18]
• 2007 - Southern Coalition for Social Justice formed.
• 2010 - Population: 228,330 city;[28] 1,749,525 metro.

See also

• Durham history
• National Register of Historic Places listings in Durham County, North Carolina
• Duke University timeline
• Timeline of North Carolina[1]
• Timelines of other cities in North Carolina: Asheville, Charlotte, Fayetteville, Greensboro, Raleigh, Wilmington, Winston-Salem

References

1. Federal Writers’ Project 1939, p. 567: "Chronology"
2. Federal Writers’ Project 1939: "Durham"
3. Brown 2009.
4. Anderson 2011.
5. Scholl Center for American History and Culture. "North Carolina: Individual County Chronologies". Atlas of Historical County Boundaries. Chicago: Newberry Library. Retrieved June 23, 2015.
6. Durden 1975.
7. "Durham/Chapel Hill, North Carolina". Encyclopedia of Southern Jewish Communities. Jackson, Mississippi: Goldring / Woldenberg Institute of Southern Jewish Life. Retrieved June 23, 2015.
8. Gary Kueber (ed.). "Open Durham". Retrieved June 23, 2015.
9. "US Newspaper Directory". Chronicling America. Washington, D.C.: Library of Congress. Retrieved June 23, 2015.
10. Durham County Library. "North Carolina Collection: Papers of Local Individuals & Organizations". Durham County. Retrieved June 23, 2015.
11. "Timeline of North Carolina History". NCpedia. State Library of North Carolina.
12. Durham County Library (2011). "The Times (timeline)". The Women Who Ran the Schools: The Jeanes Teachers and Durham County's Rural Black Schools. North Carolina Collection: Exhibits.
13. Rubenstein Rare Book & Manuscript Library. "African Americans in Durham". Franklin Research Center Collections and Guides. Duke University. Retrieved September 21, 2016.
14. Pluralism Project. "Durham, NC". Directory of Religious Centers. Harvard University. Retrieved June 23, 2015.
15. "Movie Theaters in Durham, NC". CinemaTreasures.org. Los Angeles: Cinema Treasures LLC. Retrieved June 23, 2015.
16. "African American newspapers in North Carolina". Research Guides for North Carolina. University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Libraries. Retrieved June 23, 2015.
17. "Manuscript and Archives Reference System". State Archives of North Carolina. Retrieved June 23, 2015.
18. "Timeline of Duke University History". Duke University Libraries. Retrieved June 23, 2015.
19. Mike Tigas and Sisi Wei (ed.). "Durham, North Carolina". Nonprofit Explorer. New York: ProPublica. Retrieved June 23, 2015.
20. Jack Alicoate, ed. (1939), "Standard Broadcasting Stations of the United States: North Carolina", Radio Annual, New York: Radio Daily, OCLC 2459636
21. Charles A. Alicoate, ed. (1960), "Television Stations: North Carolina", Radio Annual and Television Year Book, New York: Radio Daily Corp., OCLC 10512206
22. "Collections & Exhibits". Digital NC. University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, North Carolina Digital Heritage Center. Retrieved June 23, 2015.
23. American Association for State and Local History (2002). "North Carolina". Directory of Historical Organizations in the United States and Canada (15th ed.). ISBN 0759100020.
24. Greene 1996.
25. "City of Durham, North Carolina". Archived from the original on February 1997 – via Internet Archive, Wayback Machine.
26. "Profile of General Demographic Characteristics: 2000". Durham city, North Carolina QuickLinks. State & County QuickFacts. US Census Bureau.
27. Civic Impulse, LLC. "Members of Congress". GovTrack. Washington, D.C. Retrieved June 23, 2015.
28. "Durham (city), North Carolina". State & County QuickFacts. U.S. Census Bureau. Archived from the original on June 22, 2015. Retrieved June 23, 2015.

Bibliography

Published in the 20th century

• W. E. B. Du Bois (1912). "Upbuilding of Black Durham: The Success of the Negroes and their Value to a Tolerant and Helpful Southern City". The World's Work. 23. hdl:2027/hvd.32044092798693.
• Story of Durham: City of the New South, William Boyd (1925)
• Durham, NC: A Center of Education and Industry (1926)
• Federal Writers’ Project (1939). "Durham". North Carolina: A Guide to the Old North State. American Guide Series. p. 169+ – via Open Library.. + Chronology
• Robert Franklin Durden (1975). The Dukes of Durham, 1865-1929. Duke University Press. ISBN 0-8223-0330-2.
• Durham: A Pictorial History, by Joel Kostyu (1978)
• Ory Mazar Nergal, ed. (1980), "Durham, NC", Encyclopedia of American Cities, New York: E.P. Dutton, OL 4120668M
• Durham Architectural and Historic Inventory. Published by the City of Durham (1982)
• Christina Greene (1996). "'In the Best Interest of the Total Community'?: Women-in-Action and the Problems of Building Interracial, Cross-Class Alliances in Durham, North Carolina, 1968-1975". Frontiers: A Journal of Women Studies. 16 (2/3): 190–217. doi:10.2307/3346808. JSTOR 3346808.

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)
• Leslie Brown (2009). Upbuilding Black Durham: Gender, Class, and Black Community Development in the Jim Crow South. University of North Carolina Press. ISBN 978-0-8078-7753-1.
• Jean Bradley Anderson (2011). Durham County: A History of Durham County, North Carolina (2nd ed.). Duke University Press. ISBN 978-0-8223-4983-9.

External links

• Durham County Library. "North Carolina Collection". Durham County. (city directories, etc.)
• "Durham and Local History". Research Guides. Duke University Libraries.
• Items related to Durham, NC, various dates (via Digital Public Library of America).