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Feb. 28, 2007 Discussing the Eastside Council on Civic Affairs, from left: Jim Polk, Henry Wallace, Sarah Stevenson, Willie Davis, Leroy Polk and Malachi Greene. More here.

March 2, 2006 Sarah Stevenson joined Gerson and Daisy Stroud in a fund-raiser to create scholarships at the Gerson L. and Daisy Spears Stroud Foundation.

Aug. 28, 2005 Sarah Stevenson was co-chair of the Women's Commission Advisory Board as the group  honored four women and one business at a ceremony at Marshall Park.  

May 1, 2004 John Lewis was guest speaker at the Mecklenburg Bar's annual Law Day observance.

May 3, 2002 Sarah Stevenson's hands caught the attention of an Observer photographer at the Charlotte observance of National Day of Prayer on May 2.  

May 7, 1996 Sarah Stevenson was bested by Hoyle Martin in the May 1996 Democratic primary for the District 2 seat on the Mecklenburg Board of County Commissioners. The full PDF file of elections returns is here.

April 29, 1996 Sarah Stevenson was among those endorsed by the Charlotte Observer in the run-up to the May 6, 1996 primary election.

July 23, 1993 Sarah Stevenson pays her fee for lifetime membership in the National Association of Negro Business & Professional Women's Association, Inc.

July 11, 1991 This Charlotte Post article notes a social function for children and their parents who were involved in a support program at the Anita Stroud Program at Fairview Homes. The project brought together the Drug Education Center, the Charlotte club of the National Association of Negro Business and Professional Women's Clubs, Inc., and the Anita Stroud Center. Sarah Stevenson is shown in ...

May 21, 1987 The Charlotte Post reported on the Afro-American Cultural Center's first fundraiser.

March 10, 1983 The Rev. Joseph Lowery was third president of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference on the day he spoke to a Charlotte audience.

Jan. 15, 1982 One of the key turns in an ever-changing Charlotte celebration of Martin Luther King Jr. Day occurred on this day in 1982. And one of the architects of that turn took time out in 2022 to piece together a retrospective of the 1982 MLK Day Observance. Ken Koontz used clippings, photos and his own reflections in the material below. He was emcee of an evening event at the Charlotte...

Sept. 10, 1981 Sarah Stevenson was among the speakers at the first Black Female Church Forum held at First United Presbyterian Church, 201 E. 7th St.

Aug. 27, 1981 In an Observer news story about the prospects for the Equal Rights Amendment, reporter Wendy Fox catalogued the "the progress – measurable if not, some would say, astounding – that women have made in the last 100 years" toward gender equity. At this writing, Sarah Stevenson was Mecklenburg's only black female elected official.

Oct. 13, 1976 The Observer's Vanessa Gallman apparently wrote this Observer profile in connection with a UNCC class studying "Black Women in America."