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Business people of Brooklyn in front of the Queen City Drug Store on East Second Street, c. 1910.
CHARLOTTE-MECKLENBURG HISTORIC LANDMARKS COMMISSION.
This swimming pool was one of few recreational opportunities for blacks in Charlotte in the years before desegregation.
SECOND WARD ALUMNI ASSOCIATION.
Henry and Mariah Houston, c. 1940. Mr. Houston was the founder and publisher of the Charlotte Post.
EVA C. HOUSTON.
Building houses in Myers Park, c. 1912.
PLCMC.
Right: Employees at Yarbrough and Bellinger Ice and Coal Company, 1912.
Death Details/Burial/Memorial Services: He died aboard the U.S.S. Franklin, along with his cousin by marriage, David Anderson Allen.
Death Details/Burial/Memorial Services: Captured by Japanese on Corregidor in February, 1942 and held as a POW. He was held at PW Camp 1- Cabanatuan 1-2-3, Nueva Province Luzon, Philippines.
Death Details/Burial/Memorial Services: Killed in action while fighting through the Vosges Mountains into the Saar Basin. When his unit came under attack, he provided cover for them to escape, but was himself killed while trying to withdraw.
Death Details/Burial/Memorial Services: Pfc. Caldwell died when his troop transport was sunk in the Atlantic by the enemy. Edward Percy Norton, Jr. and Landen Bruner, men from Mecklenburg Co., were also killed.
Death Details/Burial/Memorial Services: Fulbright entered the Merchant Marines in 3/1937 and was promoted from Messman to Fireman. After his ship was torpedoed, he returned to the US. He later departed for India and had appendicitis while onboard ship.
Death Details/Burial/Memorial Services: He died from wounds he received in his tank. He was leading his company when the tank was hit by an anti-tank gun. Members of his crew took him out of the tank and into a basement where other wounded were.
September 4, 1957 - Today, four brave, young black people will test the new laws against school segregation. As the nation watches, these desegregation pioneers arrive at four of Charlotte's all-white schools.
William Washingon Browne, from `Negro Stars in All Ages of the World` by W. H. Quick, L. L. B.
According to authors Howard and Ruth White, the church used to be next to the cemetery and was destroyed by fire in the early 1970s. This is not a complete list of burials. This cemetery is near new subdivisions and an elementary school. It is on private property.
On September 4, 1957, sixteen-year-old Gus Roberts arrives at Central High School with his father. Hundreds of students stand on the front steps, watching.
Principal Ed Sanders welcomes Gus and his father and makes sure the crowd behaves peacefully. Gus goes to class.
Joseph Wilbur Cash (1900-1941) was one of the most respected writers ever associated with Charlotte. He was born in Gaffney, S.C., and attended North Carolina's Wake Forest University. He used his initials, in reverse, and became known as W.J. Cash.
John Flennekin (3/7/1744 - ?) was one of the original signers of the Meckenburg Declaration of Independence. There are many people in this family with this name, and doing genealogical research is difficult.
Zaccheus Wilson (1733 - 1824) was one of the original signers of the Meckenburg Declaration of Independence. He, like many other signers, was a surveyor. Wilson was one of the first to leave the state and died near Gallatin, Tennessee, in 1824.
The Carnegie Library's charter, granted in 1903, had also required the city to provide a public library to serve blacks. In early 1904, the city aldermen bought a lot at the corner of Brevard and East 2nd streets for a separate library for blacks.
Annie Smith Ross, the first librarian at the Carnegie Library, had gone to Atlanta after the death of her first husband to study library work. She brought back many advanced ideas.