Advanced Search
Unknown African American Company. African American troops began arriving in earnest in late 1918. Their numbers equaled and sometimes exceeeded the numbers of white troops in Camp Greene at the same period.
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.
Built in 1900, Grace African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church is still located at 209-211 South Brevard Street. The building is no longer open to the public, but i
In 1911, you might have seen men moving the Little Rock AME Zion Church from its original location in the Third Ward to Myers Street which was in First Ward.
Alfred Dixon served as the first president of the choir at Seventh Street Presbyterian Church.
FIRST UNITED PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH ARCHIVES.
Right: Miss Poe of Charlotte, c. 1900.
FRANKLIN COLEY.
The Kenneth Diamond Family, 1938. Left to Right: Kenneth, Kenneth Jr., Cora, Vermelle.
VERMELLE ELY
Constance Morrison Colston and her daughter, Rebecca, 1907.
THELMA M. COLSTON.
Advertisements for black-owned businesses, 1915. From: Colored Charlotte, courtesy of QUEENS COLLEGE LIBRARY.
Labels from early recordings of Charlotte gospel groups.
CHARLOTTE MUSIC ARCHIVES, PLCMC.
A Medical Auxiliary banquet to honor Charlotte's black doctors, 1945.
MILDRED ALRIDGE.
Dr. and Mrs. James A. Pethel, in 1910, with their son James Jr. who also became a physician.
NANCY PETHEL.
The Davis Family, c. 1945. Left to Right: Jessie Crosby Davis, Henrietta, Henry Jr., Henry Davis.
JAMES G. CROSBY.
Car advertising an appearance by Bishop C. M. Grace at the United House of Prayer for all People.
PLCMC.
