Roosevelt Warner

Life and Orange County connections

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1. about 1934 Curry Roberts builds a brick house for the Cates family on West Union Street A two-story brick Colonial Revival house was built for the Cates family at 112 West Union Street, set far back on a lot running the depth of the block. Curry Roberts built it and the Black brickmason Roosevelt Warner laid the brick; it replaced an earlier house on the lot. People: Roosevelt WarnerSearch the index · Hillsborough Historic District National Register Additional Documentation (2014), pdf p. 190
2. about 1937 Brickmason Roosevelt Warner builds his own house on West Corbin Street Roosevelt Warner, a Black brickmason, built himself a two-story brick Colonial Revival house at 117 West Corbin Street, with a garage apartment of brick and glazed tile behind it. He also laid brick for other Hillsborough houses and in 1963 became the first Black town commissioner. People: Roosevelt WarnerSearch the index · Hillsborough Historic District National Register Additional Documentation (2014), Section 7, p. 47-48 (Roosevelt Warner House)
3. February 1946 The Health Club of Hillsboro, led by Roosevelt Warner, turns the old Community Hall into a community center The News of Orange County reported that the old Community Hall in Hillsboro was being made into a community center under the sponsorship of the Health Club of Hillsboro, whose president was Roosevelt Warner. The Youth Club held a Valentine dance in the hall on February 14.Search the index · DigitalNC: The News of Orange County, February 21, 1946, p. 3
4. May 1955 Roosevelt Warner is named to the advisory committee of Hillsboro's Central school The Orange County Board of Education named Roosevelt Warner, Luther DeLon, Charlie Rainey, Sam English and Shepherd Burnett to two-year terms as the advisory committee for Central, Hillsboro's school for Black students.Search the index · DigitalNC: The News of Orange County, May 5, 1955, p. 1
5. August 1955 The county board names a committee to study school segregation after Brown Answering a letter from the Governor's Advisory Commission on Education, chaired by Thomas Pearsall, the Orange County board appointed a local committee to study the problems the Supreme Court's segregation ruling raised for its schools. Ira Ward and Delmar Brown soon replaced two of the first members, Bonner D. Sawyer and W. T. (Buck) Murray. People: Ira Ward, Roosevelt WarnerNC State Historic Preservation Office: Cedar Grove School, National Register nomination (OR3044), p. 21
6. summer 1957 Roosevelt Warner coaches the Hillsboro Junior All-Stars Warner coached the newly organized Hillsboro Junior All-Stars, boys aged 13 to 15 who played teams of Durham's Bull City Pony League and Chapel Hill under Little League rules. The paper called the team a civic project for summer recreation, and local firms gave money for uniforms and equipment.Search the index · DigitalNC: The News of Orange County, July 4, 1957, p. 1
7. May 2, 1961 Roosevelt Warner runs as the first Black candidate for Hillsboro's town board Warner filed for one of the five seats on the Hillsboro Board of Commissioners, the first Black candidate to seek election in the town. In the May 2 election he finished last of the eight candidates with 180 votes; he won a seat on his second try in 1963.Search the index · DigitalNC: The News of Orange County, May 4, 1961, p. 4
8. May 7, 1963 Roosevelt Warner is elected the first Black member of the Hillsboro Board of Commissioners Roosevelt Warner, a masonry contractor and business owner, led the field of eleven candidates with 281 votes for the five-member Board of Town Commissioners on his second try, unseating incumbent Herman H. Strayhorn. Two years earlier he had been the town's first Black candidate, finishing last with 180 votes. People: Roosevelt WarnerSearch the index · DigitalNC: The News of Orange County, May 9, 1963, page 2 (Hillsboro town election returns)
9. August 2, 1963 Warner's Motel and Warner's Wash-eteria invite the public to see their facilities An advertisement invited everyone to visit Warner's Motel and Warner's Wash-eteria on Highway 70-A in Hillsboro on Friday, August 2, and inspect their modern facilities. People: Roosevelt WarnerSearch the index · DigitalNC: The News of Orange County, August 1, 1963, p. 9