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grew up in the Sandhills area on her great-grandfather���s land. When her father died in 1954, she and her mother and siblings were racially threatened and eventually forced to leave their land. Jenkins was determined to have an education and became the first black student to enter High Point College during in the 1960���s civil rights protests. More than 10 years later she revisited where she grew up and started thinking of her and her ancestors��� lives there and how their land had provided a means of family support and self sufficiency. In 2001 Jenkins founded the Sandhills Family Association with a mission to save and protect family land and livelihoods. The organization also preserves the culture of African-Americans from the area. Jenkins said it has been with the help of countless volunteers and supporters that the association has been successful with community outreach education, a farmer���s market, heritage tours and an annual cultural festival. Jenkins was one of AT&T���s honorees chosen for the 2013 North Carolina Heritage Calendar. Her story will also be told to students in North Carolina���s public schools, as it has been added to the curriculum from the second to 11th grade. Jenkins is quick to point out that the heroes of our area are not people like her, but the grandfathers and grandmothers who worked the land and endured hardships so their children and grandchildren could have a better life; the mothers and fathers who took care of their families, and the neighbors who were always there for each other. ���We want to preserve that rich history and legacy of land stewardship, entrepreneurship, and the culture of our ancestors, and awaken the passion in our children to pass it on to future generations,��� she said. From Hiram Rhodes Revels, born in Fayetteville in 1827, who was the first African-American to serve in the United States Senate in 1870 representing Mississippi, to the unsung heroes whom Ammie Jenkins praises, Fayetteville has been the birth place and home to talented, gifted and passionate African-Americans who, through their own lives, passions and work, have given much to Fayetteville and the world beyond. CV Bordeaux Center Inc. B ordeaux Center has been one of Fayetteville���s favorite places to shop since 1963. Well known for its replica of the Eiffel Tower and its conveneint location next to Cape Fear Valley Medical Center, it is fast becoming Fayetteville ���s newest one-stop medical community! Medical space is available ��� 800 to 8,000 sq. ft. ��� adjacent to these medical practices: US HealtHworkS ��� Urgent care and workman���s comp BordeaUx optical ��� optician, contacts, glasses & repairs cFVMc Blood aSSUrance ��� Blood donor center BordeaUx drUg ��� pharmacy cape Fear Valley HoMe HealtH cape Fear Valley HoSpice cUMBerland cHildren���S clinic ��� pediatric care cape Fear pain & laSer center Hanger proStHeticS ��� prosthetic���s and orthotics cardinal HealtH ��� nuclear pharmacy liBerty HoMe care coMpreHenSiVe neUro-diagnoStic HealtH oaSiS ��� Health food market liBerty Medical SpecialtieS aFFordaBle creMationS 1740-A Owen Drive Fayetteville, NC 28304 Call Janet at 910.323.0063 www.BordeauxCenter.com Grant-Murray Real Estate, LLC Neil Grant Patrick Murray, CCIM, CLS Dr. Chuck Maxwell Macon Thomason neil@ grantmurrayre.com patrick@ grantmurrayre.com chuck@ grantmurrayre.com macon@ grantmurrayre.com 910.818.3252 910.988.5284 Steve Hogan 910.797.1910 steve@ grantmurrayre.com 910.624.1966 David Lopez Property Manager david@ grantmurrayre.com 919.630.1080 Roger Shah 910.578.8039 roger@ grantmurrayre.com CommerCial Brokerage | ProPerty management and leasing tenant rePresentation | landlord rePresentation | investment analysis 505 W. Russell St. | Fayetteville, NC 28301 | 910-829-1617 www.GrantMurrayRE.com CityViewNC.com | 45

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