More about Rev. Walter C. Hart, who arrived in Wilson in 1945 as the Negro field executive of the Eastern Carolina Council of the Boy Scouts.
Rocky Mount Telegram, 5 October 1945.
More about Rev. Walter C. Hart, who arrived in Wilson in 1945 as the Negro field executive of the Eastern Carolina Council of the Boy Scouts.
Rocky Mount Telegram, 5 October 1945.
Wilson Daily Times, 16 August 1946.
Wilson Daily Times, 5 May 1949.
Sophia and Walter C. Hart, early 1930s.
Hill’s Wilson, N.C., City Directory (1947-1948).
Photograph courtesy of grandson Keith M. Harris.
In the absence of a public library that would admit African-American patrons, the Boy Scout troop affiliated with Calvary Presbyterian Church opened a reading room two days a week at the church.
Wilson Daily Times, 17 June 1933.