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The fifth grade class, Alexander Street School, May 1930. The school was located on the corner of Alexander and 12th streets.
LAURA SPEARS MALONE
Alexander Street School Rhythm Band, 1935
GERALDINE JOHNSON BLENMAN
The Tonettes at Isabella Wyche School.
SECOND WARD ALUMNI ASSOCIATION.
West Charlotte High School Senior Prom, 1950.
JAMES G. CROSBY.
The Junior Band, West Charlotte High School, 1943.
ANITA BALDWIN.
"Chums," Second Ward High School, about 1940.
ROBENIA D. McCULLOUGH.
Many elegant homes lined South Brevard Street before the urban renewal projects of the 1970s including the J. T. Williams home in the foreground.
SECOND WARD ALUMNI ASSOCIATION.
Mary Schenck, John Winfield Schenck and Polina Schenck, c. 1920.
THELMA M. COLSTON
The Alexander Brothers, c. 1928. Left to right: Frederick Douglas, Louis Franklin, Zachariah; front: Kelly Miller.
MRS. KELLY M. ALEXANDER, SR.
The Kirkpatrick family on the porch of their farmhouse, c. 1910.
From: The Samuel Kirkpatrick Family by Addie Pettice and Josephine Wade
Mt. Moriah Primitive Baptist Church was located on the corner of Alexander and 11th streets. This photograph was made in 1921 when the Reverence K. D. Davis served as pastor of the church.
GERALDINE JOHNSON BLENMAN.
W. C. Smith (1854 - 1937), founder, publisher and editor of Charlotte's first black secular newspaper, the Charlotte Messenger.
Business people of Brooklyn in front of the Queen City Drug Store on East Second Street, c. 1910.
CHARLOTTE-MECKLENBURG HISTORIC LANDMARKS COMMISSION.
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.