This photograph of Wilson Colored High School’s Class of 1937 also hangs in the hallway of the Darden Alumni Center.

A label listing the students’ names has been augmented where possible with birth and death dates and parents’ names, below.

1. Charles Darden James (1914-1994, Randall R. and Elizabeth Darden James)
2. Howard Monroe Fitts Jr. (1921, Howard M. and Elizabeth Plummer Fitts)
3. Doris Louise Crooms Caldwell Robinson (1920-1992, Lloyd and Maggie Jones Crooms)
4. Herman Oliver Marshall (1918-??, John and Annie Marshall)
5. Delores Robbins Coleman (1920-2003, James D. and Louise Davis Robbins)
6. Alice McCoy (1915-1983, Russell and Ometa Smith McCoy)
7. Lucy Dawson Artice Moss (1922-1989, Jesse A. and Sophia Dawson Artice)
8. Hennie Ennis Campbell (1919-??, Samuel and Maggie Taylor Ennis)
9. Hattie E. Ross McKeithan (1918-2008)
10. Estelle Dew McNair (1917-2005, Ross and Ivory Taylor Dew)
11. Catherine Joyner Foster
12. Williard Jordan
13. Primrose Carter (1914-1972, Willie E. and Henrietta Cooper Carter)
14. Montez Colesse Hooker Boatman (1922-1990, Gray F. and Bettie Caddell Hooker)
15. Celeste Hardy McClain
16. William Nelson Knight (1916-2011, James H. and Ada Green Knight)
17. Virginia Walden Wilson (Albert L. and Annie Moore Walden)
18. Ernest D. Lassiter (1918-??, Jesse C. and Lessie Dew Lassiter)
19. Jesse Fitzhugh Reid (1920-??)
20. William Harry Howell (1921-2004, Harry B. and Annie Mae Thompson Howell)
21. Evelyn Johnson Stone
22. Alvis Ashley Hines (1918-1981, Ashley and Mattie Barnes Hines)
23. Charles Futrell
24. Henry Venson Whitehead (1918-2004, William and Nettie Bivins Whitehead)
25. Arthur Lee Battle (1917-2007, William and Nora Williams Battle)
26. Earl E. Ennis (1917-1964, Samuel and Maggie Taylor Ennis)

Photograph courtesy of Darden Alumni Center, Wilson.

The Class of 1938 was the first to graduate from the newly rechristened Charles H. Darden High School. Camillus L. Darden, after donating books to stock the school library, won the right to rename Wilson Colored High School after his father.

A label listing the students’ names has been augmented where possible with birth and death dates and parents’ names, below.

First row: Kester Congress Mitchell (1919-??, Kester R. and Martha Taylor Miller); William Aaron Best (1921-??, Aaron and Estell Best); Clarence Herman Best (1918-1994, Clarence and Best); Milton Jasper King (1920-??); Walter M. McMillon (1919-1994, Tommie and Willie McMillon); Herbert Vendrick Whitehead (1920-2007, Henry and Victoria Ennis Whitehead); James F. Coley.

Second row: Ida Doretha Parks Hinnant (1917-2007, John and Emmeline Bobbitt Parks); Lillian Boykin Kent (1917-2006, William and Sarah Williamson Boykin); Helen Elveta Reid Worsley (1921-1981, Willie C. and Mary Galley Reid); unknown; Carlotta Bernice Gerald; Clyde Joan Dickerson Faison (1921-1997, Fred and Almeter Edmundson Dickerson); Bessie Mae Joyner Redden (Eddie L. and Annie Joyner); Doris P. Freeman James (1920-2003), Julius and Pattie Hagans Freeman); Yvonne Taylor; Edna Gray Taylor Desvigne (1921-2011, Roderick and Mary John Pender Taylor; Doretha Hunter Farmer (1912-1992, Will and Mary Whitehead Hunter); Annie Elizabeth Cooke Dickens (1921-??, Jerry L. and Clara Godette Cooke); Annie Frances Crawford (1921-??, Clarence and Maggie Barnes Crawford); unknown; Lusynthia Page Johnson Marshall (1922-??, Theodore R. and Rachel Bynum Johnson); Mary A. Barnes; unknown.

Third row: Katie Powell; Virginia Ann Mitchell Williams (1918-2002, George and Rose Lipscomb Mitchell); Sallie Baldwin Howard (1916, Marcellus Simms and Narcissa Baldwin); Mary Moore; Aurelia Janet Lucas Hagood (1920-1997, Henry and Mamie Battle Lucas; Mary Tena Melton (1920-1992, John and Lora Barnes Melton); Margaret Powell; Beulah Sutton Legrand (1915-1975, George and Henrietta Sutton); Lena Cherry Goodman (1920-1988, John and Mable Langley Cherry); Mary J. Barnes; Helen L. Potter; Estelle Ellis Coble Newsome (1919-1994, Oscar and Mamie Bynum Ellis); Cora Bynum Boney; Margaret Powell [one of these women is mislabeled; there was only one Margaret Powell in this class]; Nora Allen Jones Mitchell; Rosa Lee Hart (1920-1943, Grover and Mamie Taylor Hart); Addie Pearl Farmer Vailes (1917-??, John D. and Rosetta Simms Farmer).

Photograph courtesy of Darden Alumni Center, Wilson.