Elected Officials

The picture shows Evans United Department Store in the 1950's.   Photo courtesy of the Durham Herald Sun

“Did the roof fall in today?” Mayor Mutt Evans asked the manager at Woolworth’s five and dime in the downtown Durham in July 1960. The business had just served a Coke to its first black customer. It was the start of a new era for the Bull City  and as Durham’s first Jewish mayor, Mutt Evans was uniquely equipped to navigate the period’s racial…