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Title:
Milestones along the color line. A souvenir of Durham, North Carolina showing the progress of a race
Creator(s):
Quick, Oliver B., Editor
Date:
1922
Description:
Oliver B.Quick created Milestones Along the Color Line. A Souvenir of Durham, North Carolina Showing the Progress of a Race, to show property “owned and controlled exclusively by Negroes in the city of Durham, N.C.” In his preface he noted, “we have selected these [institutions and homes] as evidence of the progress being made by our race group in this section of the South.” The pamphlet contains numerous photographic images of churches, schools, business establishments, private residences and street scenes.
Source:
Milestones along the color line. a souvenir of Durham, North Carolina showing the progress of a race. Durham, N.C.: O. B. Quick, 1922. Southgate-Jones family papers, David M. Rubenstein Rare Book & Manuscript Library, Duke University.

Library of Congress Subject Headings:
Race relations -- North Carolina -- 20th century
African American business enterprises
Race relations -- North Carolina -- Durham -- 20th century
North Carolina Mutual and Provident Association (Durham, N.C.)
African Americans -- North Carolina -- Durham -- 20th century
Historic buildings -- North Carolina -- Durham
Durham (N.C.) -- History
Mechanics and Farmers Bank (Durham, N.C.)
Whitted Graded School (Durham, N.C.)
Lincoln Hospital (Durham, N.C.)
American Methodist Episcopal Zion Church (Durham, N.C.)
East End High School (Durham, N.C.)
Pine Street Presbyterian Church (Durham, N.C.)
Wonderland Theater (Durham, N.C.)
White Rock Baptist Church (Durham, N.C.)
Mount Vernon Baptist Church (Durham, N.C.)
Home Office Building North Carolina Mutual Life Insurance Company (Durham, N.C.)
National Training School (Durham, N.C.)
Hunter Masonic Temple (Durham, N.C.)
African Americans -- North Carolina -- Social life and customs -- 20th century
African Americans -- Education -- North Carolina
Durham (N.C.) -- Description and travel
African Americans -- Economic conditions -- North Carolina -- 20th century
Photographs
Quick, Oliver B.

Geographic Term:
Durham (N.C.)
Parrish Street (Durham, N.C.)
North Carolina Mutual Block of the Colored Business Section (Durham, N.C.)
Fayetteville Street Business Section (Durham, N.C.)

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