A planned historical marker in Winston-Salem will also have ties to a chapter in Greensboro’s Jim Crow past.

The sign will commemorate the precedent-setting 1914 North Carolina Supreme Court decision that overturned a Winston-Salem ordinance aimed at keeping the city’s neighborhoods segregated.

The court’s ruling nullified a similar law in Greensboro, one of just two cities that made it illegal for Black and white residents to move onto city blocks where they would be in the minority racially.

According to the News & Record’s predecessors — the Greensboro Daily News and the Greensboro Daily Record — the Gate City’s ordinance was inspired by residents incensed over a Black man’s 1913 purchase of a house in a predominantly white neighborhood.

William B. Windsor, who served for years as p

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