The death of John H. Clark, leading Negro figure.

Sixty-seven years ago, the Pittsburgh Courier ran a brief piece memorializing John H. Clark, Wilson’s “first Negro mail carrier.”

11-19-1949

19 November 1949.

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Headstone of Ida and John Clark, Masonic Cemetery, Wilson.

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