Lynn Wells Rumley is a historian and politician associated with Cooleemee, North Carolina known for her efforts to preserve the textile history of Cooleemee.
Prior to moving to Cooleemee, she was a civil rights activist in Atlanta, Georgia during the 1960s and was a member of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), the Southern Student Organizing Committee (SSOC), and then a national leader of Students for a Democratic Society and the Revolutionary Youth Movement in the late 1960s.[1][2]
Rumley served as director of the Cooleemee Historical Association / Textile Heritage Center for several decades from 1989 until 2017,[3] and as the mayor of Cooleemee from 1998 until 2021.[4][5] The previous mayor of Cooleemee and black residents of the town criticized her for advocating racist policies and glorifying the Confederacy under the guise of traditional values.[1]
References
- ^ a b Fink, Leon (2006). "When Community Comes Homes to Roost: The Southern Milltown as Lost Cause". Journal of Social History. 40 (1): 119–145. ISSN 0022-4529. Retrieved 16 October 2023.
- ^ Wedgwood, Tamasin (2009). "Partner or Pariah? – Academic attitudes to history work by mill hands at Cooleemee, North Carolina". Museum and Society. 7 (3): 178–193. ISSN 1479-8360. Retrieved 16 October 2023.
- ^ Rumley, Lynn (18 March 2018). "Leave Confederate Monuments alone". Salisbury Post. Retrieved 16 October 2023.
- ^ FOX8/WGHP, FOX8/WGHP (6 September 2012). "Cooleemee mayor's husband involved in attack, shooting". Winston-Salem Journal. Retrieved 16 October 2023.
- ^ Barnhardt, Mike (1 November 2018). "Cooleemee history alive thanks to the Rumleys". Davie County Enterprise Record. Retrieved 16 October 2023.
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