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, 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.
This swimming pool was one of few recreational opportunities for blacks in Charlotte in the years before desegregation.
SECOND WARD ALUMNI ASSOCIATION.
The planning committee of the Phyllis Wheatley YWCA, meeting in the late 1940s. The Phyllis Wheatley Branch was established in 1916.
FLORETTA DOUGLAS GUNN.
Right: A meeting of the Good Samaritan Hospital Auxiliary in the 1940s.
FLORETTA DOUGLAS GUNN.
Watson Park, in Washington Heights, was the only park in Charlotte for the use of blacks in 1915. From: Colored Charlotte, courtesy of QUEENS COLLEGE LIBRARY.
Right: A variety of social activities were regularly reported on in the In and Around the City column in the Star of Zion. These announcements are from the January 21, 1897 issue.
Colonel James H. Young, District Grand Master of the Masonic Lodge.
FRANKLIN COLEY.
Right: Sarah Diamond, Eastern Star, 1931.
VERMELLE ELY.
Pisgah Lodge No. 266, mortgage burning, October 17, 1943. The Lodge was located at 311 South Caldwell St.
LEW POWELL.