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World War II Rationing Board, the `colored` section. First row: Arthur E. Grier, R. P. Wilson, Dr. Nathaniel S. Tross, Adelaide Hunt, Mr. Henry Houston. Second row: Thad L. Tate, Clarence Moreland, Attorney Jesse Bowser. Third row: Fred Alexander, Dr. Thomas Watkins, Mr. Clinton L.
Mt. Moriah Primitive Baptist Church was located on the corner of Alexander and 11th streets. This photograph was made in 1921 when the Reverence K. D. Davis served as pastor of the church.
GERALDINE JOHNSON BLENMAN.
West Charlotte's All-Star Champion Basketball Team, 1950, with coach Minnie Alma Blake.
MINNIE ALMA BLAKE.
Grace African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church was founded by four men and seventeen women in December, 1887. The Church moved into this building in 1900.
LAURA M. BOOTON.
The Reverend Sidney David Watkins, pastor of Little Rock AME Zion Church, 1900 - 1906 and Presiding Elder, Charlotte District, 1906 - 1922.
BESSIE MULLIENS.
This photograph of the Friday Evening Social Club was taken about 1907. The members were schoolteachers at the Myers Street School.
LAURA M. BOOTON
Presbyterian College was located on North College Street. The school changed its name to Queens College (now university) and moved to Selwyn Avenue in the Myers Park neighborhood. Converted to apartments, this building and others have since been demolished.
Margaret Neal and her brother Virlie at their home on First St., 1927.
VIRGINIA E. KEOGH.
Right: Margaret Neal at 18 years, upon her graduation from Second Ward High School, 1939.
Dr. and Mrs. Theophilus McKinney. Dr. McKinney was academic dean of Johnson C. Smith University, 1929 - 1962, and Mrs. McKinney taught English in the Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools.
Elizabeth College was located on Hawthorne Road. It opened in 1896. This popular school for girls remained in Charlotte until 1915.