Dr. Furman Brodie, pastor of Brooklyn Presbyterian Church during the 1920s.
SECOND WARD ALUMNI ASSOCIATION.
Right: Brooklyn Presbyterian Church, organized 1911, and the manse.
FIRST UNITED PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH ARCHIVES.
Charlotte's first black Baptist church was organized by former slaves in June, 1867. This sanctuary, at 1020 South Church Street, was dedicated in September, 1911, and demolished in 1977.
CHARLOTTE OBSERVER LIBRARY.
Deacon Board of the First Baptist Church, c. 1945.
Left to right, front row: James Bratton, Homer Bonner, Porter Connor, Edgar Phillips, the Reverend J. H. Moore.
Back row: Ellis Hunter, James Brown, unknown, J. Knight.
MILDRED ALRIDGE.
Car advertising an appearance by Bishop C. M. Grace at the United House of Prayer for all People.
PLCMC.
Doris Parks, 2nd from left, and friends at Lockbourne Airbase, 1944.
TRILBY MEEKS.
Right: Dorothy Neal poses in a WAC uniform.
DOROTHY NEAL CROCKETT.
John Southerland, of Charlotte, appears in this group of graduates of the U.S. Naval Training Center in Bainbridge, Maryland, May 24, 1945.
ANITA BALDWIN.
Sumter Denis Moore, a staff sergeant in World War II.
THEODORA HENDRY WASHINGTON.
Right: Carl F. Neal and friend Fred Hayes were stationed in Dallas when they posed together for this photograph.
DOROTHY NEAL CROCKETT.
World War II Rationing Board, Colored Section.Left to right, front row: Arthur E. Grier, R. P. Wilson, Dr. Nathaniel S. Tross, Adelaide Hunt, Henry Houston.Second row: Thad L. Tate, Clarence Moreland, Jesse Bowser.Back row: Fred Alexander, Dr. Thomas Watkins, Clinton L. Blake, c. 1942.
LAURA M. BOOTON.
Sergeant Major Zachariah Alexander served in the 3rd North Carolina Infantry in the Spanish-American War, c. 1898.
MRS. KELLY M. ALEXANDER, SR.
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Colonel C. S. L. A. Taylor led the Charlotte Light Infantry, a black military company, which was called into active service to fight in the Spanish-American War. From: Colored Charlotte, courtesy of QUEENS COLLEGE LIBRARY.
Right: Brothers Theodore, left, and Newton Hendry served together in World War I.
THEODORA HENDRY WASHINGTON.