Historical Marker Unveiling Manly McCauley and Victims of Lynching

Sun, Feb. 18, 2024
2:00 pm
Carrboro Town
Commons

Provided by The Equal Justice Initiative (EJI) in partnership
with Orange County Community Remembrance Coalition (OCCRC)

KEYNOTE SPEAKER
Dr. Reginald Hildebrand
Former co-chair of the NC Freedom Park Board of Directors and a trustee
of the NC Humanities Council.
• Member of the NC African American Heritage Commission
• Member of the Historic Civil Rights Commemorations Task Force
of the Town of Chapel Hill
• Taught African American Studies and History at UNC-Chapel Hill,
Williams College, and Durham Technical Community College

SPOKEN WORD
CJ Suitt
Performance poet, arts educator, and community organizer whose work is
rooted in storytelling and social justice. CJ was recently appointed as the
first Poet Laureate of Chapel Hill, NC.
MUSIC

Brown Sugar Strings
of Bull City Music School

On October 30, 1898, a mob of white men lynched a young Black man named Manly McCauley a few miles west of Chapel Hill. Mr. McCauley lived and worked on the farm of a white couple named Milton and Maggie Brewer. On October 26, Mr. McCauley and Maggie Brewer left the farm and headed south. After news spread that the two had left together a group of white men joined Mr. Brewer in search of them. The mob found them together about 40 miles away, seized them, and carried them back towards Chapel Hill.