Lucille Caldwell

Life and Orange County connections

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1. February 1951 Lucille Caldwell becomes the Negro Community Center's first paid director Lucille Caldwell was hired in February 1951 as the first paid director of Chapel Hill's Negro Community Center on Roberson Street, now the Hargraves Center. A town history calls her North Carolina's first Black professional recreation administrator. She led the center for twelve years and resigned in 1963. Place: Chapel Hill · Also mentions: Hargraves Center, Roberson StreetIn the index: Hargraves Community Center (Chapel Hill, N.C.) · UNC Libraries Digital Repository: History of Hargraves Center compiled by a Chapel Hill Parks and Recreation intern (late 1980s) · Also: Chapel Hill Weekly, May 4, 1951, p. 5; Open Orange: Hargraves Community Center / Roberson Street Center / Negro Community Center
2. early November 1959 Chapel Hill's Human Relations Commission renews the push for a swimming pool at the Negro Community Center The commission told the aldermen it would revive the long-stalled campaign for a pool for Black residents, calling next summer's need critical because the University, whose pool townspeople had used, said it would close the pool to all but students if any Black person applied. A committee chaired by community center director Mrs. Lucille Caldwell set out to form a Chapel Hill-Carrboro swimming pool corporation, pick a site, estimate costs and draft a budget. People: Lucille Caldwell Place: Negro Community Center, Roberson Street, Chapel HillThe News of Orange County (Hillsborough), November 5, 1959, p. 13
3. by January 20, 1960 Chapel Hill-Carrboro Swimming Pool Association is chartered to build a pool for the Black community The Chapel Hill-Carrboro Swimming Pool Association, Inc., a nonprofit group formed mainly to build a swimming pool for the Black community, announced its formal organization, with 14 incorporators and directors. Its bylaws said no one would be denied use of its facilities because of money, and it planned a site choice and a public fund appeal. People: Edwin Caldwell (1867-1932), Lucille Caldwell Place: Chapel HillThe News of Orange County (Hillsborough), January 21, 1960, p. 6
4. August 17, 1960 Cornelia S. Love is named as the donor of the pool at Chapel Hill's Negro Community Center Leaders of the Chapel Hill-Carrboro Swimming Pool Corporation announced that Cornelia S. Love was the until-then anonymous donor of the $37,000 swimming pool being built on the grounds of the town-owned Negro Community Center on North Roberson Street. She made the gift in stock. People: Cornelia Spencer Love, Lucille Caldwell Place: Negro Community Center, North Roberson Street, Chapel HillThe News of Orange County (Hillsborough), August 18, 1960, p. 1