{"id":51746,"date":"2020-04-30T21:55:11","date_gmt":"2020-05-01T04:55:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/soulofamerica.com\/?page_id=51746"},"modified":"2020-11-02T11:15:14","modified_gmt":"2020-11-02T19:15:14","slug":"raleigh-trivia","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.soulofamerica.com\/us-cities\/raleigh\/raleigh-trivia\/","title":{"rendered":"Raleigh Trivia"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_51785\" style=\"width: 750px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-51785\" src=\"https:\/\/soulofamerica.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/Ral_St_Augustines_Col_entr.jpg\" alt=\"St. Augustines College entrance\" width=\"740\" height=\"416\" class=\"size-full wp-image-51785\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.soulofamerica.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/Ral_St_Augustines_Col_entr.jpg 740w, https:\/\/www.soulofamerica.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/Ral_St_Augustines_Col_entr-768x431.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 740px) 100vw, 740px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-51785\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><strong>Entrance to St. Augustines College, Raleigh<\/strong>; (c) Soul Of America<\/p><\/div>\n<div style=\"margin-left: 6px; margin-top: 30px;\"><\/div>\n<h2 align=\"center\">Raleigh Trivia<\/h2>\n<div style=\"margin-left: 6px; margin-top: 30px;\"><\/div>\n<p>Raleigh Metro Area has a 1,200,000 population.<\/p>\n<p>Raleigh is the capital of North Carolina.<\/p>\n<p>African American population in Raleigh-Durham Combined Metro Area is over 325,000.<\/p>\n<p>Raleigh was featured prominently in a number of Top 10 Lists by Forbes, MSNBC and Money magazine, due to its quality of life and favorable business climate.<\/p>\n<p>The 7,000-acre, Durham-based Research Triangle Park, one of the largest research parks in the world, contains over 140 organizations and 45,000 employees. More than 100 are research and development-related, including the North Carolina Supercomputing Center, the National Institute for Environmental Health Sciences and the Environmental Protection Agency.<\/p>\n<p>The combined metro areas have been the location or subject for 20 major movies and scores of other television and advertising productions.<\/p>\n<p>In 2008, the city&#8217;s Fayetteville Street Historic District joined the National Register of Historic Places.<\/p>\n<p>Visitors to the combined metro area number more than 18 million annually.<\/p>\n<div style=\"margin-left:6px;margin-top:20px;\"><\/div>\n<div align=\"Center\"><script src=\"\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js\" async=\"\"><\/script><!-- 728x90_Google_ad --> <ins class=\"adsbygoogle\" style=\"display: inline-block; width: 728px; height: 90px;\" data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-2614878843485070\" data-ad-slot=\"1660422307\"><\/ins><script>\/\/ <![CDATA[\n(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\n\/\/ ]]><\/script><\/div>\n<div style=\"margin-left:6px;margin-top:20px;\"><\/div>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ni6h3a9cNPY\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<div style=\"margin-left: 6px; margin-top: 30px;\"><\/div>\n<h2 align=\"center\">Famous Residents<\/h2>\n<p>Notable people were born or made their mark here include:<\/p>\n<p>John Hope Franklin &#8211; Historian and Presidential Medal of Freedom winner<br \/>\nElla Baker &#8211; Civil Rights activist who helped organize Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee<br \/>\nMaynard Jackson &#8211; Former mayor of Atlanta<br \/>\nRev. Douglas Moore &#8211; pioneer who supported the earliest sit-ins of the Civil Rights Movement<br \/>\nMary Lou Williams &#8211; Famed jazz composer and teacher<br \/>\nFloyd McKissick, Sr. &#8211; Early civil rights leader and father of a US Congressman<br \/>\nJohn Merrick, Charles C. Spaulding &#038; Dr. Aaron Moore &#8211; Co-founders of North Carolina Mutual Insurance<br \/>\nDr. James E. Shepard &#8211; Founder of North Carolina Central University<br \/>\nDr. Charles Johnson &#8211; President of the National Medical Association<br \/>\nShirley Caesar &#8211; Gospel vocalist<br \/>\nClyde McPhatter &#8211; R&#038;B vocalist for the Drifters<br \/>\nNneena Freelon &#8211; Jazz vocalist<br \/>\nCoach John McClendon &#8211; Pioneering basketball coach whose strategies are still emulated today<br \/>\nSam Jones &#8211; 1st African American drafted in the first round by the NBA<br \/>\nDr. Leroy Walker &#8211; Former President of the US Olympic Committee<br \/>\nErnie Barnes &#8211; NFL football player and artist<br \/>\nChuck Davis &#8211; Choreographer<br \/>\nBlind Boy Fuller &#8211; Piedmont Blues vocalist<\/p>\n<div style=\"margin-left:6px;margin-top:30px;\"><\/div>\n<div align=\"Center\"><script src=\"\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js\" async=\"\"><\/script><!-- 728x90_Google_ad --> <ins class=\"adsbygoogle\" style=\"display: inline-block; width: 728px; height: 90px;\" data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-2614878843485070\" data-ad-slot=\"1660422307\"><\/ins><script>\/\/ <![CDATA[\n(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\n\/\/ ]]><\/script><\/div>\n<div style=\"margin-left:6px;margin-top:20px;\"><\/div>\n<h3 align=\"center\"><a href=\"https:\/\/soulofamerica.com\/us-cities\/raleigh\/\">Return to RALEIGH<\/a><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Raleigh Trivia Raleigh Metro Area has a 1,200,000 population. Raleigh is the capital of North Carolina. African American population in Raleigh-Durham Combined Metro Area is over 325,000. Raleigh was featured prominently in a number of Top 10 Lists by Forbes, MSNBC and Money magazine, due to its quality of life and favorable business climate. 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