Biographies

Mayor Frederick L. Yates

Frederick Lee Yates is a retiree of the United States Marine Corps. He is currently serving his fourth term as the first Afro-American Mayor, for the Town of Winfall, North Carolina.

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Chuck Berry: One of the Only Musicians With a Genuine Claim to Be the Founder of a Genre

When time travel adventure Back to the Future included the conceit of the white 1980s teenager, Marty McFly, inventing rock ‘n’ roll, there was really only one song to hang it on – Chuck Berry’s “Johnny B. Goode”. Legendary is

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Biography: E.V. Wilkins

Wilkins officially entered politics when he won a seat on Roper’s town council in 1967, thus becoming the first African-American elected official in the region since the days of Reconstruction. Wilkins won the area’s mayoral election, thus becoming the first African-American mayor of Roper.

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