I found this ad in the Charlotte News from September 6, 1911: What do you think, Charlotteans? Is Myers Park still “the suburb distinctive”?
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Selling Myers Park, 1911
Posted in DigitalNC, History on September 4, 2012 | 5 Comments »
Smile when you say ‘Great White Father’?
Posted in Just A Bite, tagged black marines, camp lejeune, i am a man!, samuel a woods jr, steve estes on September 4, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
“The Corps only reluctantly began accepting African Americans early in World War II…. The commanding officer of the black training facilities at Camp Lejeune was Colonel Samuel A. Woods Jr., a native of South Carolina and an alumnus of that state’s all-white military college, The Citadel. “According to an official history of black Marines, Colonel [...]
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