African Americans -- North Carolina -- New Hanover County -- History

Scope and Contents This collection contains records pertaining to chapter and regional events of the Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Alpha Psi Omega chapter. Alpha Kappa Alpha was the first intercollegiate historically African American sorority. Alpha Psi Omega, the Southeast North Carolina chapter, was chartered in 1932. Materials include event programs, souvenir booklets, newspaper clippings, invitations, magazines, posters, and a photocopy of the Alpha Psi Omega chaper charter. The bulk of the materials pertain...

Scope and Contents This collection contains the papers of Bertha Boykin Todd, a long-time New Hanover County educator and community leader. Content focuses on her work with the 1898 Centennial Foundation, biographical information and research for her memoir, "My Restless Journey," speeches and notes for events at which she spoke, recordings of her media appearances, and articles and correspondence related to her community engagement and work with the New Hanover County School system, highlighting her time as...

Scope and Contents This collection consists of original documents, letters, financial records and printed material dealing with the establishment of free public schools in Wilmington, North Carolina after the Civil War. The correspondence details the financial support for school construction, teacher recruitment, and administration provided by the Massachusetts Soldiers Memorial Society, Mary Hemenway, Amy Bradley and the American Unitarian Association for what came to be known as Wilmington School District...

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This collection contains records created by the "From Our Hearts to Yours" health initiative, a program created to promote heart disease awareness among Black women. Materials include a poster, two vinyl banners, brochures and booklets, promotional fliers, event programs, correspondence, a historical report, newspaper clippings, a magazine article, and photographs.

Scope and Contents The McDonald-Howe Family Papers contains materials pertaining to the Alfred Howe family and the children of his daughter, Rebecca Howe McDonald. Included are documents pertaining to the life of Alfred Howe, who was the son of Anthony Walker, a formerly enslaved person, and his wife, Tenah Howe, a member of the Tuscarora. Howe was born in Wilmington, North Carolina and became a successful builder, in addition to holding a number of elected positions. Additional materials in the...

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Interview with various artists whose work is on display in the juried exhibit, Wilmington Artists VII, at the St. John's Museum of Art; Interview with radio host and African-American History Commission board member Harvard Jennings about the group's work to highlight the participation of African Americans in the historical development of Wilmington; Overview of upcoming events on the cultural calendar.

Scope and Contents Interview with publisher and writer Louis D. Rubin about his memoir, Small Craft Advisory: A Book about the Building of a Boat; Interview with historian Fred McRee about a Smithsonian exhibit, Black Women: Achievements Against the Odds", on display at the Wilmington Community Boys Club as part of a Black History Month program; Short interview with director Michael Criscuolo about the play, Hooters, produced by Opera House Theatre Company and on stage at the Thalian Hall Studio Theater;...

Scope and Contents Interview with producer and actor Sam Irving and his mother (minister and gospel singer), Joyce Jones, about plays Irving is producing including Gods Trombones and A Night with Dr. Martin Luther King on stage at the Thalian Hall Studio Theater; Interview with Joseph McNeil regarding his experience as a participant in the Greensboro sit-in at the F.W. Woolworth lunch counter including his opinion on why a sit-in could not have occurred in Wilmington at that time, as well as other topics;...

Scope and Contents Interview with author Ellen Bache about her fiction novel, Festival in Fire Season, about a fire that engulfs Wilmington during the annual azalea festival; Interview with William Childs about Dr. James B. Dudley and the Wilmington Commission on African-American History's work to establish a historical marker recognizing him; Interview with playwright Steve Cooper and director Tony Pender about the play, The Lambda, produced by Opera House Theatre Company and on stage at the Thalian Hall...

Scope and Contents Interview with actress Kelly Chalaire about the play, Sound of Music, produced by Opera House Theatre Company and on stage at Thalian Hall; Interview with former History teacher Jeanne Keith Harris about her experience as an educator at Williston High School and later during integration at Hoggard High School; Interview with Wilmington attorney and publisher of The Challenger newspaper, Peter Grear, about the advantages and primarily disadvantages of integration as it pertains to education;...