Hate Crime

Protestors in front of the Durham County Judicial Building. N.C. Collection, Durham County Library. Photos by Tony Rumple, Durham Herald

Sign 1: “Don’t give into fear seek truth”
Sign 2: “Hatred hurts us all”
Stop 3: “Stop vigilante violence”
Sign 4: “It is not acceptable to kill people because they are gay. It is not acceptable kill people at all”

On Friday, April 17th, 1981, 125 men, women, and children held up these signs and others as an act of…