venues and serves as the home
for the North Carolina Symphony. Walnut Creek Amphitheatre is a large music
amphitheater located in Southeast Raleigh. Museums in Raleigh include the North
Carolina Museum of Art in West Raleigh, as well as the North Carolina Museum of
History and North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences located next to each
other near the State Capitol in Downtown Raleigh. Several major universities
and colleges call Raleigh home, including North Carolina State University, the
largest public university in the state, and Shaw University, the first
historically black university in the American South and site of the foundation
of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, an important civil rights
organization of the 1960s. One U.S. president, Andrew Johnson, was born in
Raleigh
