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	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.”
	Upbuilding of black Durham: the success of the Negroes and their value to a tolerant and helpful southern city Essay by W. E. B. DuBois in the World's Work reporting on his visit to Durham, North Carolina in 1912. DuBois analyzes the economic culture and explores the history of race relations in this southern city. DuBois provides a history of black enterprises and educational institutions that served the black community in Durham. The article features photographs of R.B. Fitzgerald, C.C. Spaulding, White Rock Baptist Church, North Carolina Mutual Insurance Company and a view of workers in a black-owned hosiery manufacturing company.
	Richard Fitzgerald account These pages from the Atlas M. Rigsbee, General Store ledger indicate what products, Richard Fitzgerald purchased from the Atlas M. Rigsbee General Store in 1880. Fitzgerald, an African American brickmaker, purchased a range of goods including foodstuffs like flour, meal, butter, sugar, and fish as well as lamp chimneys, collars and hats. The ledger indicates that Fitzgerald paid for his goods with bricks from his manufacturing enterprise.
	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.
	Bird's-Eye View of the City of Durham, North Carolina, 1891 This 1891 map shows an aerial view of Durham and provides an extensive index to the location of tobacco warehouses, factories, restaurants, groceries, dry goods dealers, churches, and residences located in Durham. Business owners include: Robert I. Rogers, Richard B. Fitzgerald, W. Shelburn, photographer, Q. E. Rawls, dry goods and many others. Also mentioned are the editors of the local newspapers E.C. Hackney of the Durham Recorder, Al Fairweather of the Durham Daily Globe, and J.A. Robinson of the Durham Daily Sun.

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