The Excelsior Club on Beatties Ford Road, 1944.
MINNIE McKEE.
Right: Excelsior Club Board of Directors, 1944. Left to right: Reuben McKissick, Samuel Moore, Harry Mills, Harry Plater, Arthur Bass, Roy Perry.
MINNIE McKEE.
The Hotel Alexander on McDowell Street was the only hotel serving blacks in Charlotte during the 1940s. Visiting celebrities stayed there and it served as a center for the social life of the community.
PLCMC.
Joseph Richmond Johnson was a composer and violinist, c. 1929.
ALICE H. KIBLER.
Right: Ned Davis was an actor, barber, and entrepreneur, c. 1930.
KENNETH VINSON.
Building houses in Myers Park, c. 1912.
PLCMC.
Right: Employees at Yarbrough and Bellinger Ice and Coal Company, 1912.
CHARLOTTE OBSERVER LIBRARY.
Caldwell W. Phifer, a prominent contractor, poses with his crew at the Caswell Apartments construction site on September 29, 1927.
PLCMC.
J. T. Williams (1859 - 1924) was a teacher, a physician and a diplomat as well as a highly respected businessman. He was president of the Queen City Drug Store Company, one of the first black owned and operated drug stores in North Carolina. In 1898, he was appointed consul to Sierra Leone.
CHARLOTTE-MECKLENBURG HISTORIC LANDMARKS COMMISSION.
Right: The Williams home at 205 South Brevard Street.
Business people of Brooklyn in front of the Queen City Drug Store on East Second Street, c. 1910.
CHARLOTTE-MECKLENBURG HISTORIC LANDMARKS COMMISSION.
W. C. Smith (1854 - 1937), founder, publisher and editor of Charlotte's first black secular newspaper, the Charlotte Messenger.
CHARLOTTE-MECKLENBURG HISTORIC LANDMARKS COMMISSION.
Meeting of the Board of Directors of the AME Zion Publishing House, 1916. Left to right, front row: Dr. W. H. Goler of Livingstone College, Bishop A. J. Warner, Bishop George Clinton, Dr. S. G. Atkins of Winston-Salem State College. Back Row: The Reverend C. W. Simmons, the Reverend S. D. Watkins, the Reverend E. L. Marable, the Reverend H. B. Bennett, unkown.
BESSIE MULLIENS.
The Afro-American newspaper carriers, 1933. Seated: Ray A. Booton. Standing, left to right: Eddie Spears, Edna Cathey, David Smith, William Cathey, Gerson Stroud, Addison Yongue, John Spears, Mrs. Martha Yongue Johnson, Reginald Wright.
LAURA M. BOOTON.
