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African Americans and Segregation

The emergence of separate educational institutions for blacks and whites and faculty efforts to begin the serious and objective study of southern race relations.

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  1. Solomon Pool (1832-1901)
  2. The State Colored Normal School (now Fayetteville State University) in Fayetteville, N.C. ca. 1915-1930
  3. Wilson Caldwell (1841-1898)
  4. Ben Boothe (died 1891)
  5. The Hackney Training School, Chapel Hill, NC, 1913-1917. Private school for African Americans
  6. Professor Wallace Caldwell (1890-1961) with unnamed domestic
  7. Eli Merritt, college servant in Old West
  8. Dr. Richard H. Whitehead in apron, unidentified African American, and anatomy class, 1890.
  9. The Franklin Street Flower Ladies, Chancellor Robert House purchasing flowers on Franklin Street, ca. 1969
  10. Howard Odum (1884-1954)
  11. Arthur F. Raper (1899-1979)
  12. William T. Couch (1901-1988)
  13. John Hope Franklin (1915- )
  14. Mary McLeod Bethune (1875-1955)
  15. Langston Hughes and local bookstore owner Tony Buttitta, Chapel Hill, 1932
  16. Langston Hughes', "Christ in Alabama," Contempo, 1931
  17. Graham (left) with Eleanor Roosevelt, another supporter of the Southern Conference for Human Welfare
  18. Pauli Murray (1910-1985)
  19. Richard Wright and Paul Green, Bynum Hall, 1941
  20. B-1 Band, African American Navy Band assigned to Chapel Hill, 1942-1945
  21. The first public health class at the North Carolina College for Negroes, 1945-6
  22. Graham and Truman

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