Other examples

Minority library experience

Jim Crow & Libraries in North Carolina

Plessey v. Ferguson (1894)

1906

Charlotte Colored

1906

1

1916

1916

Durham Colored

2

1918

1918

Laurinburg Negro

3

1926

1926

Carnegie Negro

(Greensboro) Wilmington Negro5

1928

1928

Asheville Colored

Thomasville Negro Branch

George Horton Branch (Winston

Salem)

Dunbar Branch

(Henderson)Weldon Branch

10

1932

1932

Lexington Negro Branch11

1935

1935

Richard D. Harrison (Raleigh)

12

1937

1937

Colored Public (Hendersonville

)Negro Branch

(Salisbury)

Colored Public (Warrenton)

Colored Public (New Bern)

Colored Public (Sanford)

Colored Public (Rocky Mount)

18

1939

1939

Colored Public (Shelby)

Negro Reading Room (Tarboro)

McRae Memorial

(Leaksville/Eden)

Hertford Colored (Winton)

Hendersonville1937

21/1

1941

1941

George W. Carver (Greenville)

22/1

1942

1942

Colored Branch (Washington)

James Walker Hood

(Fayetteville)24/1

1943

1943

Brevard Street (Charlotte)

25/1

1944

1944

Olive Hill (Morganton)

Twelfth Street (Hickory)

Brown-Carver (Edenton)

Roanoke Colored(Manteo)

Highland Public (Gastonia)

Granville Colored (Oxford)Negro Branch

(Roxboro)

Colored Public(Goldsboro)

Wilson County Negro

35/1George

Washington Carver (Concord)

1945

1945

George Washington

Carver (Lenoir)

Orange County Negro

(Hillsborough)

37/1

1947

1947

Negro Branch (Asheboro) Pender County

Negro (Burgaw)39/1

1948

1948

Negro Branch (Monroe)

Johnston County Negro (Clayton)

Joseph Judkins (Hertford)

Charlotte1943-1947

41/2

1949

1949

Negro Branch (Wadesboro)

Negro Branch(Warsaw)

Caswell County Negro

(Yanceyville)

Pigeon Street Unit

(Waynesville)

Kingsville Branch (Albemarle)

47/2The John Merrick

(Clinton)

1950

1950

Negro Branch(Columbia)

Delta Public (Louisburg)

49/2

1951

1951

Cale Memorial (Elizabeth City)

Manteo1944-1951

Charlotte1906-1951

48/4

1952

1952

Gates County Negro (Gatesville)

Selma Negro

Smithfield Negro

Northampton Negro Branch (Rich Square)

Colored Branch (Rockingham)

Negro Branch (Plymouth)

Clayton1948-195253/5

1953

1953

Bertie County Negro (Windsor)

Selma1952-1953

53/6

1959

1959

Duplin County Negro

(Kenansville)

Brown v. Topeka

Plessey v. Ferguson (1894)

Laurinburg1918-1958

Gastonia1944-1959

Morganton1944-1956

Smithfield1952-1954

Clinton1949-1956

Columbia1950-1959

Rockingham1952-1956

47/13

1965

1965

Brown v. Topeka

Plessey v. Ferguson (1894)

Civil Rights Act

Rosenwald Branch(Brevard)

Elmwood BranchFairview Branch

Lincoln Homes BranchWoodcrest Branch

(Goldsboro)

Bragtown BranchMcDougald Terrace Branch

John Avery Boys’ Club Branch

(Durham)

Winston Salem1928-1960

Greensboro1926-1963

Weldon1928-1965

Asheboro1947-1963

Kenansville1959-1963

Elizabeth City

1951-1964

Wilson1944-1964

Louisburg1950-1960

49/21

Chavis Heights PublicWashington Terrace Branch

(Raleigh)

1966 - 1970

1970

Tarboro1939-1965

Brevard1965-1970

Asheville1928-1966

Lexington1932-1966

Thomasville1928-1966

Salisbury1937-1966

Leaksville1939-1966

Roxboro1944-1966

Hillsborough1945-1966Lenoir

1945-1966

Burgaw1947-1966

Yanceyville1949-1966

Gatesville1952-1966

Plymouth1952-1966

Windsor1953-1966

Goldsboro (4)

1966

Raleigh1966

Winton1939-1969

Monroe1948-196627/43

1970 - 1980

1980

Wadesboro1949-1970

Rocky Mount1937-1970

Sanford1937-1970

Shelby1939-1970

Rich Square1952-1970

Hertford1948-1976

Concord1944-1976

Oxford1944-1974

Henderson1928-1979

New Bern1937-1973

17/53

1981 - 1990

1990

Wilmington1926-1981

Washington1942-1989

Fayetteville1942-1985

Goldsboro1944-1984

13/57

1991 - 2000

2000

Albemarle1949-1993

12/58

1991 - 2000

2000

Pigeon Street Unit

(Waynesville) 1949

Twelfth Street (Hickory) 1944

Durham Colored 1916

Bragtown BranchMcDougald Terrace Branch

John Avery Boys’ Club Branch

(Durham) 1965Richard D. Harrison

(Raleigh) 1935

Colored Public (Warrenton)

1937

Brown-Carver (Edenton) 1944

George W. Carver (Greenville) 1941

Historically Black Public Libraries Remaining in North Carolina

North Carolina Public Libraries

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