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Browse Collection › LC Subject Heading › 3 records found where LC Subject Heading is Education -- North Carolina -- Social aspects -- History -- 20th century
	What are Negroes doing in Durham? Essay by Clement Richardson in the Southern Workman highlighting the achievements of the African American community in Durham in the early 1910s. Richardson focuses on the contributions of black entrepreneurs and professionals including E. R. Merrick, Robert Fitzgerald, Stuart Lynn Warren, John Merrick, Dr. A. M. (Aaron McDuffie), R. H. Clegg, W. G. Pearson, J. S. Scarborough, E. W. Cannady, Dr. F. D. Page, Peyton H. Smith, P. W. Dawkins, Jr. and others.
	Durham, North Carolina, a city of Negro enterprises Booker T. Washington, principal of Tuskegee Institute, penned this essay in 1911 for the illustrated magazine, Independent. Washington, recounts his travels to Durham and gives his observations about race relations in Durham. Washington discusses the economic and cultural contributions of many prominent members of the African American community including: Richard B. Fitzgerald, Aaron M. Moore, Richard E. Clegg, John Merrick, and Charles Clinton Spaulding. He devotes much of his analysis to the economic development of the black community in a place that he dubbed, “City of Negro Enterprises.”
	Map of Durham County, North Carolina prepared by the direction of the County Commissioners from actual surveys This 1920 map provides two views of Durham County. One view delineates the school districts in Durham County and indicates which schools served white or black pupils. It also identifies Mangum, Lebanon, Durham, Oak Grove, Carr, Patterson, and Cedar Fork townships and provides locations for cemeteries and roads. Another view labelled Cities of East and West Durham identifies street names for areas that are now customarily referred to as Old West Durham, including the Ninth Street business district, Trinity Park, Trinity Heights, Walltown (portion), Duke University (East Campus), Old North Durham, Downtown Durham and Fayetteville Street (Hayti), West End, Morehead Hill (portion), Edgemont and Morning Glory, Cleveland-Holloway Street, East End, East Durham (portion).

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