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Carolina Peacemaker, N.C. A&T theater arts founder John Kilimanjaro dies
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Carolina Peacemaker, N.C. A&T theater arts founder John Kilimanjaro dies
- Nancy McLaughlin
- Mar 27, 2019
- Mar 27, 2019
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John Kilimanjaro founded Carolina Newspapers, publisher of the Carolina Peacemaker, in 1967. It became a powerful voice on issues affecting the African American community.
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After his speech at Bennett College, King posed with community leaders. To the left of King is Dr. George Simkins, John Kilimanjaro, the publisher of The Carolina Peacemaker, and storekeeper Ralph Johns. Greensboro NAACP President Dr. Edwin Edmonds is seated to the right of King.
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With the sun streaming in, John Kilimanjaro sits in a darkened room in 2007 playing the piano.
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Sit Down at Jefferson Square, Greensboro, N.C., June 6, 1963. John Marshall Kilimanjaro, the founder of the Carolina Peacemaker, is in foreground looking at camera. Kilimanjaro was arrested with the students.
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Vickie (left) and John Marshall Kilimanjaro have spent the better portion of their lives running the Carolina Peacemaker. Daughter Afrique (center), a scientist by training, is helping to run the newspaper.
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Photos: Carolina Peacemaker, N.C. A&T theater arts founder John Kilimanjaro
B'not Mitzvah
John Marshall Kilimanjaro plays piano during the Adult Bat Mitzvah for his wife, Vicki at Temple Emanuel in 2016.
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John Kilimanjaro
John Kilimanjaro, publisher of The Carolina Peacemaker, at his home in Greensboro, N.C., on Wednesday, Oct. 31, 2007.
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Vicki and John Marshall Kilimanjaro
Vickie and John Marshall Kilimanjaro were married for 62 years. They met at a N.C. A&T vs. N.C. Central football game when Vickie was a student at Central. They raised four children and ran the Carolina Peacemaker together.
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For the Kilimanjaros, running a community newspaper is a family affair. Vickie Kilimanjaro (background) Afrique and John Marshall Kilimanjaro at the Peacemaker office on Summit Avenue.
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John Kilimanjaro
With the sun streaming in, Kilimanjaro sits in a darkened room in 2007 playing the piano. A classical pianist, he could still silence a room with the first few notes of Beethoven or eloquently recite chapters of the Psalms and Shakespeare.
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King at Bennett
After his speech at Bennett College, King posed with community leaders. To the left of King is Dr. George Simkins, John Kilimanjaro, and storekeeper Ralph Johns. Greensboro NAACP President Dr. Edwin Edmonds is seated to the right of King.
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Carolina Peacemaker
Vickie and John Marshall Kilimanjaro spent the better portion of their lives running The Carolina Peacemaker. Daughter Afrique (center), a scientist by training, helps to run the newspaper.
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Kilimanjaro founded the Carolina Peacemaker weekly newspaper in 1967.
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John Marshall Kilimanjaro, with his daughter, Afrique, who carries on the family's legacy.
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Running a community newspaper is a family affair for the Kilimanjaros. Daughter Afrique, left; mother Vickie and father John Marshall Kilimanjaro.
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John Kilimanjaro 1963
John Marshall Kilimanjaro (in foreground, looking at the camera) was among the hundreds taking part in a sit-down at Jefferson Square in Greensboro in June 1963 to protest segregated public accommodations.
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John Marshall Kilimanjaro
John Marshall Kilimanjaro at the 2016 Adult Bat Mitzvah for his wife Vickie Kilimanjaro at Temple Emanuel.
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John Kilimanjaro founded Carolina Newspapers, publisher of the Carolina Peacemaker, in 1967. It became a powerful voice on issues affecting the African American community.
- Joseph Rodriguez/News & Record
After his speech at Bennett College, King posed with community leaders. To the left of King is Dr. George Simkins, John Kilimanjaro, the publisher of The Carolina Peacemaker, and storekeeper Ralph Johns. Greensboro NAACP President Dr. Edwin Edmonds is seated to the right of King.
- Nancy McLaughlin
With the sun streaming in, John Kilimanjaro sits in a darkened room in 2007 playing the piano.
- Nancy McLaughlin
Sit Down at Jefferson Square, Greensboro, N.C., June 6, 1963. John Marshall Kilimanjaro, the founder of the Carolina Peacemaker, is in foreground looking at camera. Kilimanjaro was arrested with the students.
- Nancy McLaughlin
Vickie (left) and John Marshall Kilimanjaro have spent the better portion of their lives running the Carolina Peacemaker. Daughter Afrique (center), a scientist by training, is helping to run the newspaper.
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