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Durham, North Carolina  Hayti neighborhood (Pronounced "HAY_TIE") is the African American community in the city. Over 200 Africian American businesses were located along Fayetteville, Pettigrew and Pine Streets, the bounties of Hayti. Hayti is home to many nationally known African Americans; Fashion Consultant, André Leon Talley, NFL star and nationally renown artist, Ernie Barnes, NBA star, professional coach, John Lucas II, 1950 - 1960's music legend, Clyde McPhatter, 1950 - 1960s National Funnyman, Pigmeat Markham, Jazz Drummer, Grady Tate, NBA star, Rodney Rogers, and Tonight Show Bandleader, Biff Henderson. Even NBA star, Tracy McGrady finished high school in the Hayti District using it as a launchpad for NBA greatest.

North Carolina Central University lies within the bounties of Hayti. Founded by James E. Shepard as the National Religious Training School and Chautauqua. Dr. Shepard was also one of the founding fathers of Hayti along with Aaron McDuffie Moore, John Merrick and Charles Clinton Spaulding. James Shepard, Aaron Moore and John Merrick would go on to found North Carolina Mutual Insurance Company, the largest and richest African American company in the world at the time.

Both W.E.B. Dubois and Booker T. Washington visited Hayti in 1910. Both stated that the community was a model for all African American communities in America to follow.

The first Sit-in happened on June 23,1957 when Hayti's Asbury Methodist Minister Rev. Douglas Elaine Moore leads a group of six other blacks (three women, three men) into segregated Royal Ice Cream Parlor, where they sat down in the white section. They are arrested and Moore turns to young Durham lawyer Floyd McKissick. The case is appealed all the way to the U.S. Supreme Court. Durham’s black Ministerial Alliance initially opposed Moore’s “radical” efforts, as did the city wide political organization the Durham Committee on Negro Affairs, or DCNA. Participants in the sit-in included: Mary Elizabeth Clyburn, Rev. Douglas Elaine Moore, Claude Edward Glenn, Jesse Willard Gray, Vivian Elaine Jones, Melvin Haywood Willis, and Virginia Lee Williams." Well before February 5, 1960, when four black college freshmen from Agricultural and Technical College of North Carolina  -- Joseph McNeil, Franklin McCain, Ezell A. Blair, Jr. (later known as Jibreel Khazan), and David Richmond sat down at a "white-only" Woolworth Department store lunch counter in Greensboro, North Carolina.