Samuel B. Pride, principal at Myers Street School, c. 1915.
ROBERT JACKSON.
Right: The Myers Street School, built in 1886, was the only public graded school serving blacks until 1907. The two story, wooden building had eight classrooms and was called the "Jacob's Ladder School" by the children because of its exterior stairways.
Zoel Sylvester Hargrave, c. 1921.
DEE DEE MURPHY.
Right: Hattie Ruddisell, 1938.
GERALDINE JOHNSON BLENMAN.
Alfred Dixon served as the first president of the choir at Seventh Street Presbyterian Church.
FIRST UNITED PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH ARCHIVES.
Right: Miss Poe of Charlotte, c. 1900.
FRANKLIN COLEY.
Constance Morrison Colston and her daughter, Rebecca, 1907.
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 Haynes family at the piano, 1949. At the piano is Alice, with her parents Bernard and Mary Grace.
ALICE H. KIBLER.
Right: The Wallace children, 1946. Left to right: Virginia, Floyd, Evelyn.
VIRGINIA KEOGH.
Rosa Catherine "Cattie" Kennedy and Richard P. Bearden were the grandparents of artist Romare Bearden. As a child he spent summers at their home at 401 South Graham Street. These portraits were made before their marriage in the 1880s.
ROBERT JACKSON.