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Arliss Watford was born in 1924 in North Carolina. He was a prominent African-American civil rights leader and a leader in the struggle for racial equality in the United States. He was a founding member of the Congress of Racial Equality (CORE) and served as its president from 1956 to 1960. Watford was born in a small town in North Carolina and attended the local segregated schools. He graduated from North Carolina A&T State University in 1948 with a degree in sociology. After college, he moved to Washington, D.C., where he worked as a social worker and became involved in the civil rights movement. In 1956, Watford was one of the founding members of CORE and served as its president until 1960. During his tenure, he helped organize the Freedom Rides, which were designed to challenge segregation on interstate buses. He also helped organize the March on Washington in 1963 and was a leader in the struggle for voting rights. Watford was also a leader in the struggle for economic justice and was a founding member of the National Welfare Rights Organization. He was also a leader in the struggle for educational equality and was a founding member of the National Association for Equal Opportunity in Higher Education. Watford was a recipient of the NAACP's Spingarn Medal in 1965 and was inducted into the North Carolina A&T State University Hall of Fame in 2006. He passed away in 2009 at the age of 84.

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1998

Arliss was married to Louise Simmons Watford. Their children were Arliss Jr., Almarie, Shirley, Reginald, Michael, Velma, and Gregory. Today, many of his family, including his grandchildren, live in the area of Hertford County. Watford died in 1998.

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Arliss A. Watford (1924–1998) was an American woodcarver from Ahoskie in Hertford County, North Carolina. He specialized in the carving of humanoid figures, such as angels and local fixtures in his community, including his family and friends. In 1998, Watford was awarded the North Carolina Folk Heritage Award, one of seven recipients in that year.

Watford was born in the town of Ahoskie in 1924, and remained in the area of Hertford County most of his life, with his shop located just six miles from his birthplace. He grew up with fourteen siblings, and first began to experiment with woodcarving as a child throughout the 1920s. He only began to profit off his works, however, when he opened his shop in the early 1980s. Prior to his professional woodcarving career, Watford worked in a variety of industries, including bricklaying, carpentry, shipyard work, farming, factory work, as well as a stint in the military.