Eddie Davis is trying to bring more attention to the 50th anniversary of the integration of public schools in North Carolina.
Davis, a Democratic candidate for superintendent of public instruction, sent a letter today to Gov. Mike Easley and other members of the Council of State asking them to use their meeting next month to pass a resolution honoring the "students who taught us the lessons of inclusion a half century ago."
Davis also asked that the Council of State work with the legislature and the State Board of Education to invite Dorothy Counts, Josephine Boyd Bradley, Gwendolyn Bailey Coleman and "other living integration pioneers" to Raleigh in June to honor their actions.
