Saturday, January 31, 2015 10 AM - 12 PM Edgecombe County Administration Building Auditorium Tarboro, NC

By Rob Christensen, newsobserver.com Thursday will be the anniversary of North Carolina Rep. George H. White's famous farewell speech to Congress - a speech filled with history and meaning unlike the C-SPAN blather we get today. White, a Republican, was the only African-American serving in Congress. But he had decided to not seek re-election in 1900 in the face of the second straight Democratic-led white supremacy campaign that would lead to the disenfranchisement of most bla