1944 - Opening of Excelsior Club

September, 1944:

• The Excelsior Club, established on Beatties Ford Road by James "Jimmie" McKee, 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.
• Original Excelsior Club Excelsior Club Board of Directors, 1944: Reuben McKissick, Samuel Moore, Harry Mills, Harry Plater, Arthur Bass, and Roy Perry