![]() "negro dog" "red light" house 4-H Club 10th Cavalry Regiment 50th anniversary 60th anniversary 100th anniversary 135th Regiment 500 block 1619 A.M.E. Lane Street Project:… on Lane Street Project: Vick Ceme… Lane Street Project:… on Lane Street Project: a logo fo… Kenya Johnson on James Scarborough house. Lane Street Project: in memory of infant Chapman-Adams (1929-1929).ĭr. ![]() ![]() Posted in 1950s, Children, City of Wilson, Entertainment, Newspapers, Photographs, Vocation, Work Life and tagged Phillips, photography, Sherrod, shoeshine contest on Septemby Lisa Y. Almost exactly ten years after I first saw John Zimmerman’s work, I’m delighted to these priceless images find a wider audience. Wilson County Public Library later exhibited the prints Linda Zimmerman donated, and she graciously extended me the opportunity to purchase a print of the photo posted yesterday. … which led to this September 2014 WUNC article that includes a dozen contest photos and short video featuring contest winner Curtis Phillips (and my cousin Otis Sherrod talking about his brother Earnest Sherrod, who’s the boy at far left.) … which led to Will Robinson finding this 23 February 1952 Daily Times article about the event, which took place at Reid Street Community Center: Here’s the back story.īack in September 2013, a couple of years before Black Wide-Awake launched, Will Robinson posted this to Wilson County Public Library’s local history and genealogy blog: This photograph posted yesterday to the Instagram account and my inbox blew up.
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