1950 to 1970
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1950 to 1970
Ninth Avenue School Year Books
All 16 of the Yearbooks from the Ninth Avenue School are available at: https://lib.digitalnc.org/search?ln=en&rm=&ln=en&sf=year&so=a&rg=10&c=DigitalNC&of=hb&fti=0&fti=0&p=903%3AHendersonCountyPublicLibrary_091019_TKD_01903%3AHendersonCountyPublicLibrary_091019_TKD_01 - Search Results – DigitalNC ...
Black-owned Businesses 1950-1970
The period from 1950 through 1965 brought change to Henderson County. The transition from the injustices of segregation to the equal ...
The Community Council
In the early 1960's Henderson County's Community Council successfully pressed for the desegregation of schools and other reforms. Excerpt from ...
The Ninth Avenue School
The Ninth Avenue School The Ninth Avenue School served African American students from Henderson, Polk and Transylvania counties from 1951 ...
Pre-School Education – Eula B. Owens Play School
The Eula B. Owens Play School was opened in 1955 and named in honor of a woman who taught at ...
Brooklyn Community
Brooklyn was a vibrant community near Hendersonville’s old train depot. It had a variety of Black-owned businesses before urban renewal ...
Greenbook Guest House
The Landina Guest House was one of many Black-owned businesses that served the Black community in the days of segregation ...
Black Bottom’s Residents
Donald R. “Donnie” Parks, Hendersonville’s First African-American Chief of Police. Black Bottom The real estate bounded by Kanuga, Barnwell and ...
Kathleen Featherstone Williams
Kathleen Featherstone Williams is a member of the Featherstone Clan and a native of Asheville, N.C. She was born on November ...
Union Grove Baptist Church
The Union Grove Baptist Church of Hendersonville, N.C., was organized as a congregation in 1909, first meeting in the homes ...
Ninth Avenue School Science Class, Courtesy of the Baker-Barber Collection
