Two brief blurbs in August 1892 announce an Odd Fellows convention in Wilson. Samuel H. Vick delivered a welcome address, and the keynote address was held at Wilson’s Opera House. Delegates arrived in town on special excursion trains run for the event.
Wilson Mirror, 3 August 1892.
“Peaceable and Intelligent”….why the tendency to always feel it’s necessary to render an evaluation of Black character as though it was a duty of someone else to do so?
As a descendant of African American excellence , such as these gentlemen , I am always amazed that there was this reoccurring propensity of some folk that felt the need to “qualify” others whose births were already justified by their Creator.