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...Confederate flag struck and put up a sign: CLOSED IN DESPAIR. CIVIL RIGHTS BILL UNCONSTITUTIONAL. Two days later, Gammill announced that henceforth the Robert E. Lee was a private club open to members only. A Richmond, Va., steakhouse also turned private, and restaurants in Charlottesville, Va., and Durham, N.C., and a Williamston, N.C., theater closed their doors for good rather than comply...
...years where white agents waivered, the U.S. Negro community gradually formed its own insurance companies, which now number about 60. With the Negro's per-capita income rising, white-run insurance companies are anxious to get some of his business. They can expect a real battle from the Durham-based North Carolina Mutual Life Insurance Co., the largest Negro-owned firm...
...among the 1,500 U.S. insurance firms, well below such giants as Metropolitan and Prudential; but it is steadily expanding through acquisition and new-policy writing, has a consistent growth rate of at least 5% yearly. The company is erecting a new twelve-story, sculptured concrete headquarters building in Durham that will be the city's highest structure-and the nation's largest Negro-owned office building...
...Pocket. North Carolina Mutual had an uncertain beginning 65 years ago in the backroom of a Durham barbershop. Barber John Merrick, one of seven founders, got some useful advice from Tobacco Magnate Washington Duke (his family founded the American Tobacco Co.), who explained business practices while being shaved. But Duke's advice was of little help when the struggling company faced its first policyholder death: to cover the $10 payment due, the firm had only 290 cash on hand. Merrick and another backer dipped into their pockets for the difference, then shrewdly waved the widow's receipt around...
Siesta is in the collection of Dr. and Mrs. James H. Semans of Durham, N.C., who first saw it in 1962 when they visited the Kraushaar Galleries in Manhattan. Later, Dr. Semans decided to buy the painting as a Christmas present for his wife, a daughter of the late U.S. Diplomat A. J. Drexel Biddle Jr. "Our first impulse was to hang it in the bedroom or the upstairs hall," said Dr. Semans, "but the painting was so lovely that we decided it should go in the living room...