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Fifth Annual Session Colored Undertakers Association of North Carolina, May 25-26, 1932. The group is pictured on South Brevard Street in front of the Alexander Funeral Home.
MRS. KELLY M. ALEXANDER, SR.
This swimming pool was one of few recreational opportunities for blacks in Charlotte in the years before desegregation.
SECOND WARD ALUMNI ASSOCIATION.
Pisgah Lodge No. 266, mortgage burning, October 17, 1943. The Lodge was located at 311 South Caldwell St.
LEW POWELL.
One of 26 original Rosenwald schools built in Mecklenburg County, the Billingsville School opened in 1927, and is still in use today.
SECOND WARD ALUMNI ASSOCIATION.
Rufus and Mary Reid, c. 1915. Rufus Reid worked as a roofer for G. G. Ray and Company. He and his wife lived on Poplar Street.
ANITA BALDWIN.
Henry and Mariah Houston, c. 1940. Mr. Houston was the founder and publisher of the Charlotte Post.
EVA C. HOUSTON.
Members of the New Emmanuel Congregational Church, with their pastor, Dr. W. C. Calhoun, November 12, 1944.
MARILYN PRIDE.
Caldwell W. Phifer, a prominent contractor, poses with his crew at the Caswell Apartments construction site on September 29, 1927.
PLCMC.
The Golden Bells Quintet, 1944. Left to right: James Maxwell, Lendy Mackie, Louis Samuel, James McLilly and Boyce Clinton. At the microphone is manager Ned Davis.
KENNETH VINSON.
Sewing class, West Charlotte High School, 1943.
ANITA BALDWIN.
Minnie and Oscar Jackson and their daughters, Minnie, left, and Cecelia, c. 1920.
MINNIE McKEE.
Building houses in Myers Park, c. 1912.
PLCMC.
Right: Employees at Yarbrough and Bellinger Ice and Coal Company, 1912.
The Kirkpatrick family's farmhouse, c. 1945. The farm consisted of 180 acres in southern Mecklenburg County, now known as Sherwood Forest.
From: The Sam Kirkpatrick Family, PLCMC.
Four generations. Baby James H. Smith with his mother, McKnight Smith, grandmother Agnes S. McKnight and great-grandmother Mary Schenck, 1915.
THELMA M. COLSTON.
The wedding of Laura Spears and William Malone, September 15, 1934.
LAURA SPEARS MALONE.
Bertha Pinkenpack in front of her house on 809 N. Alexander Street with her great-granddaughters, Geraldine and Beverly, c. 1950.
GERALDINE JOHNSON BLENMAN.
This photograph of the Friday Evening Social Club was taken about 1907. The members were schoolteachers at the Myers Street School.
LAURA M. BOOTON.
The Jim Diamond Family, 1923. Left to Right: Kenneth, Jim, Sarah.
VERMELLE ELY.
Drum major Bishop Dale of American Legion Post 168's Drum and Bugle Corps.
ANNIE MAE DALE.
Colonel James H. Young, District Grand Master of the Masonic Lodge.
FRANKLIN COLEY.
Right: Sarah Diamond, Eastern Star, 1931.