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Principals and supervisor of all 13 all-black schools at a 1956 teaching association's professional meeting.
From left to right, seated, are: J. E. Grisby, Second Ward High; C. L. Blake, West Charlotte High; Mrs. Cordelia E. Stiles, supervisor; W. G. Byers, Fairview Elementary; Mrs. Gwendolyn Cunningham, Double Oaks Elementary; and C. E. Moreland, Northwest Junior High.
A RAMBLING WOODEN, two-story building known as Myers Street School was the hubcap in the spoke wheel of Brooklyn. This enormous, ungainly structure with several large shade trees surrounding it was in the middle of a square plot of land fronting on Myers Street.

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This photograph was taken around the time of her graduation in 1884. Annie Alexander.
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White Graded School at Southern Town Boundary, Colored Graded School at northeast corner, Myers and Stonewall Streets.
This information was first published in 1888: EDUCATIONAL.
IN HIS History of Mecklenburg County and the City of Charlotte, D. A. Tompkins gives biographical sketches of eighty men who were prominent in Mecklenburg during and shortly after the Revolution. The most frequent phrase in these sketches is, "he was educated at . . .
Public School Class in 1898
This is a special project of the Public Library of Charlotte and Mecklenburg County in celebration of the Library's centennial year. It addresses a long-standing need to record and preserve the visual history of the African American Community.

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By the late 1890s, Dr. Annie enjoyed an ever expanding medical practice, she had privileges at both St.
MISS AMAY, as she was affectionately called by her children and friends, lived on Boundary Street about two blocks from our home in Brooklyn. She was a short, stout woman with a very friendly serene face and a rare ability to make friends.
Pictured here in 1917, Children's Department annex and meeting room added with second gift from Carnegie Corporation.
Lack of space for both books and programs also was a serious problem. In 1915, Andrew Carnegie was approached again for funding. His $15,000 gift was used to build an annex at the rear of the original building.
This information was first published in 1888: TOPOGRAPHY AND CHARACTERISTICS.
Morgan School Library
  The Library at Morgan School in the Cherry Community, c.1925  
AMONG the provision of the Mecklenburg Resolves of May 31, 1775 it was stipulated that the inhabitants form themselves into nine companies and "chuse" two freeholders from each who would act as selectmen to govern the county.
Farm Workers, Mecklenburg County. ETHEL BRYANT
One of the most important agencies for maintaining cohesion and rendering social welfare was the church. In slavery, the church played a vital role in attending to the spiritual and social needs of slaves as well as aided in the successful escape of slaves to freedom.
In 1902 there was published, by the authority of the Mayor and Board of Aldermen, and compiled by Clarkson & Duls, City Attorneys, The Code of the City of Charlotte, containing The Charter and all Acts amending it, and also the act providing for the establishments of Public Schools a

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Philadelphia Medical College for Women
In 1882, Annie Alexander, age seventeen, entered the Woman’s Medical College in Philadelphia.

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By the late 1890s, Dr. Annie enjoyed an ever-expanding medical practice. She had privileges at both St.
This photograph of the Friday Evening Social Club was taken about 1907. The members were schoolteachers at the Myers Street School.  LAURA M. BOOTON
  This photograph of the Friday Evening Social Club was taken about 1907. The members were schoolteachers at the Myers Street School. LAURA M. BOOTON  

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County Quadrant