‘I lived it:’ Fayetteville State has history in civil rights movement
If he did not realize it before, Willis McLeod quickly gathered the gravity of the situation when a Fayetteville police officer informed him that his involvement in the civil rights movement had put him in the crosshairs on the streets of Fayetteville.McLeod, who would later become chancellor of his alma mater, Fayetteville State University, was the school’s student body president during the time of heightened social resistance over the first half of the 1960s. […]
