97.9 The Hill WCHL and Chapelboro.com are your headquarters for local news and local voices in Chapel Hill-Carrboro. Every Thursday morning, local historian Scott Washington joins 97.9 The Hill’s Aaron Keck for “History Matters,” a look back at notable events and significant figures from this week in history, ranging from pioneers to writers to inventors to civil rights champions and more, locally, nationally, and beyond.

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This edition of History Matters is historic in its own right: our last installment in University Place, before the station moves to East Franklin Street. This week, Scott and Aaron celebrate a pair of inventors – the inventor of the shopping cart (among other things, sort of) and the inventor of the computer mouse. They also celebrate Ruby Bridges, who became a civil-rights hero at the age of six when she integrated a Louisiana elementary school.

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