NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY

1979 SESSION

 

 

CHAPTER 968

SENATE BILL 936

 

 

AN ACT TO PROVIDE FOR THE STUDY OF BLACK HISTORY IN NORTH CAROLINA.

 

Whereas, the Division of Archives and History, Department of Cultural Resources, has undertaken a number of recent projects relating to black history including a major museum exhibition on the black presence in North Carolina, a survey of significant black historic sites in the State, and a special effort to commemorate significant black leaders and places through the highway historical marker program; and

Whereas, the above-mentioned projects are part of an ongoing commitment of the Division of Archives and History to foster the study of black history in North Carolina; Now, therefore,

 

The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:

 

Section 1.  There is appropriated from the General Fund to the Division of Archives and History, Department of Cultural Resources, the sum of twenty-five thousand dollars ($25,000) for the fiscal year 1979-80 and the sum of fifteen thousand dollars ($15,000) for the fiscal year 1980-81 to be used to coordinate the study of black history in North Carolina, to stage a major symposium on black history, to provide for the purchase of black-related artifacts for the Museum of History, to survey the State archives for black-related documents, to complete a survey of black historic sites in North Carolina, and to publish works on black history.

Sec. 2.  This act shall become effective July 1, 1979.

In the General Assembly read three times and ratified, this the 8th day of June, 1979.