#otd in 1891, Hugh Cale, a Black legislator from Pasquotank County, sponsored House Bill 383 to create Elizabeth City State Colored Normal School.
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“Born in Perquimans County, Cale worked at Fort Hatteras and on Roanoke Island during the war and in 1867 moved to Elizabeth City where he was a merchant. Locally he held a host of offices including county commissioner. He was one of thirteen African Americans to serve in the
state legislature in 1876, the first of his four terms. In 1882 Cale, an active A.M.E. Zion layman, was appointed a trustee of Zion Wesley Institute in Salisbury which in 1885 became Livingstone College. He was among the initial group of nine trustees of the North Carolina