My mama texted me the photo:
I ran to the Wilson Times online:
Look at God.
Newspapers
Lucas testifies that he accomplished his purpose.
Greensboro Daily News, 15 May 1918.
Another account of Henry Lucas‘ very deliberate assault on J.D. Reid discloses this new tidbits: Mary C. Euell left Wilson within days of the incident. Just six weeks later, she was working at a Washington, D.C., school, and could not immediately return to Wilson for C.L. Coon’s trial.
Training School for Bears.
Greensboro Daily News, 11 July 1927.
O. Nestus Freeman not only owned bears as pets, he operated a Training School and offered them for sale to others. [Though described as “Siberian,” it is more likely that these were common American black bears. North Carolina has banned buying, selling, possessing, or keeping bears, except in zoos, since 1975.]
Freeman’s bears. Detail from Oliver Nestus Freeman Round House Museum Photograph Album, Images of North Carolina, http://www.digitalnc.org.
Dr. W.T. Darden serves as acting hospital director.
Washington Tribune, 29 January 1929.
Dr. Walter T. Darden, son of Charles H. and Dinah Scarborough Darden, served as acting director of Tuskegee Institute’s John A. Andrew Memorial Hospital during the absence of its regular director, who was at Johns Hopkins Hospital with Tuskegee Institute principal Dr. Robert R. Moton.
For the first time, white people cannot ride with those of color.
Wilson Times, 9 June 1899.
Dr. and Mrs. Walter T. Darden go on a honeymoon sail.
New and pretty paper.
Wilson Times, 12 May 1911.
As noted here, when Rev. Fred M. Davis, long-time pastor of First and other black Missionary Baptist churches, wasn’t in the pulpit, he ran a business selling and hanging wallpaper.
Howard Law degree conferred.
Fresh off his successful decades-long campaign to strip African-Americans of basic rights in his home state of North Carolina, Secretary of the Navy Josephus Daniels delivered the commencement speech at Howard University’s 1916 graduation. No doubt without irony, Daniels spoke of “progress made by the colored race.”
Who received his juris doctor degree that day? Glenn S. McBrayer, who passed the North Carolina bar the following spring and hung his attorney shingle in Wilson around 1920. He hit the ground running, hosting the first annual convention of the Negro State Bar Association and getting elected that organization’s corresponding secretary in December 1921. McBrayer practiced in Wilson through 1929.
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The Washington Herald, 8 June 1916.
Noble Grand Vick celebrates with Boston Lodge.
Like his father Daniel Vick and brother Samuel H. Vick, Ernest L. Vick was an active Odd Fellow, serving as Noble Grand when Boston Lodge celebrated its 26th anniversary in 1909.
Boston Globe, 19 February 1909.
Sharp wanted Daniel Vick.
The State Chronicle, 3 May 1884.
Another account of Daniel Vick‘s appointment as mail carrier in 1884. (Note that Vick’s job involved transporting mail from the train station to the post office, not delivering it from house to house.)