September 1944 - The Excelsior Club is established on Beatties Ford Road.
The Excelsior Club serves as a social and political gathering place for many of the city's black leaders in the late 1940s and throughout the decades to come.
	The original site of the Excelsior Club, established on Beatties Ford Road by James "Jimmie" McKee.
	Excelsior Club Board of Directors, 1944. Left to right: Reuben McKissick, Samuel Moore, Harry Mills, Harry Plater, Arthur Bass, and Roy Perry.