Lynn Wells Rumley
Template:Short description 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]
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