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An African American Album: Community Life

Community Life

 

This photograph of the Friday Evening Social Club was taken about 1907. The members were schoolteachers at the Myers Street School.

LAURA M. BOOTON

 

“Have you heard of the Leaf Social? It will be given at Varick Hall, Friday night, Jan 29. Come and see the leaves matched.”

Special announcement from the Star of Zion, January 28, 1897

 

The Dragons

 

The Dragons, 1935. Left to right, front row: Ed Durham, Albert Phillips, Kelly Alexander, J. B. Lauren, Matthew Lindsay, Bill Lytle. Second Row: Leonard "Chicken" Barksdale, Marco Glenn, Harold McKnight, David Williams, Bill Haygood. Back row: Albert Kennedy, Tom Simmons, Weldon Brown, Johnny Gray, Lovette Warner.

THEODORA HENDRY WASHINGTON.