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 Warner Place: Cates House, 112 West Union Street, Hillsborough · Also named: Curry RobertsSearch 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 Warner Place: 117 West Corbin Street, HillsboroughSearch the index · Hillsborough Historic District National Register Additional Documentation (2014), Section 7, p. 47-48 (Roosevelt Warner House)
3. May 1, 1945 Black citizens of Hillsboro organize a health committee with Roosevelt Warner as chairman At a meeting with county health department leaders at the Hillsboro high school for Black students, local parents and teachers organized to improve health conditions, electing Roosevelt Warner chairman and Mrs. William Alston co-chairman and naming district leaders to help them. The effort grew out of a faculty health committee at the school. A News account that August, written up for visiting University of Virginia researchers, put the founding mass meeting of the Health Club in the first week of May 1944, and said its districts followed the ones laid out for Red Cross work. Place: Hillsboro high school for Black students, Hillsborough · Also named: Mrs. William AlstonSearch the index · The News of Orange County (Hillsborough), May 10, 1945, p. 5 · Also: The News of Orange County (Hillsborough), August 2, 1945, p. 1
4. July 25, 1945 University of Virginia researchers study Hillsboro's Black health club for a book Dr. and Mrs. Jesse Ogden of the University of Virginia extension service spent July 25 in Hillsboro gathering material on its Black Health Club, one of some sixty community programs they were studying for a book to be published by Harpers. They toured the club's districts, talked with public health nurse Evelyn Burke and health educator Helen Wilson, and met the club's planning committee at the library for Black readers. Dr. Ogden said Hillsboro's was the only program they had seen in the region with such deep roots and long planning. People: Roosevelt Warner, A. L. Stanback Place: Hillsboro · Also named: Jesse Ogden, Evelyn BurkeSearch the index · The News of Orange County (Hillsborough), August 2, 1945, p. 1
5. November 1945 to February 1946 The Health Club of Hillsboro, led by Roosevelt Warner, turns the old Community Hall into a community center By November 1945 the Health Club of Hillsboro, under Roosevelt Warner, was restoring the old Odd Fellows Hall as a community center, and in February 1946 the News of Orange County reported the old Community Hall being made into a community center under the club's sponsorship. The Youth Club held a Valentine dance in the hall on February 14. Place: Hillsborough · Also mentions: News of Orange CountySearch the index · The News of Orange County (Hillsborough), February 21, 1946, p. 3 · Also: The News of Orange County (Hillsborough), November 22, 1945, p. 5
6. March 22, 1946 Hillsboro's Health Club honors returning Black veterans with a banquet Roosevelt Warner's Health Club gave a banquet for returning Black servicemen and their mothers at the Odd Fellows Hall, decorated by its Youth Club and served by Boy Scouts under A. L. Stanback. Ticket sales, backed by Hillsboro merchants, doctors and the sheriff, went toward remodeling the old Odd Fellows Hall for supervised recreation. People: Roosevelt Warner, A. L. Stanback Place: Odd Fellows Hall (Community Center), HillsboroughSearch the index · The News of Orange County (Hillsborough), March 28, 1946, p. 5
7. April 21 to May 2, 1947 Hillsboro's Black Health Club runs its annual clean-up campaign The Health Club of Hillsboro, led by Roosevelt Warner, launched its yearly clean-up campaign in the town's Black neighborhoods with help from the district health department, and closed it at the community center with a barbecue dinner and prizes and certificates for the homes the judges chose. The club also staged a DDT spraying demonstration at Warner's home on May 3. People: Roosevelt Warner Place: HillsboroughSearch the index · The News of Orange County (Hillsborough), April 24, 1947, p. 7
8. July 1, 1949 Hillsboro's high school for Black students opens a vocational agriculture department After years of asking, Black citizens won state and county approval for a vocational agriculture department at the Hillsboro high school, and volunteers tore down an Army building at Camp Butner bought by the Board of Education and hauled it back to rebuild on the school grounds at no labor cost to the county. The department opened July 1 under teacher J. M. Murfree, and its building was going up in time for the school opening. People: A. L. Stanback, Roosevelt Warner Place: High school for Black students, Hillsborough · Also named: J. M. Murfree · Also mentions: Hillsboro high schoolThe News of Orange County (Hillsborough), August 11, 1949, p. 1
9. by May 5, 1955 The Central School PTA starts a Cub Scout pack for Black boys in Hillsboro The Central School PTA in Hillsboro organized Cub Scout Pack 116 for Black boys, and some sixty people came to the new pack's first meeting, where cubs put on skits and charter members received their Bobcat pins. Clarence Kay was cubmaster, with Roosevelt Warner and Luther DeLon on the sponsoring PTA's committee. People: Roosevelt Warner Place: Central School, Hillsborough · Also named: Clarence Kay, Luther DeLonSearch the index · The News of Orange County (Hillsborough), May 5, 1955, p. 3
10. 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. Place: Hillsborough · Also named: Luther DeLon, Charlie Rainey, Sam English, Shepherd BurnettSearch the index · The News of Orange County (Hillsborough), May 5, 1955, p. 1
11. 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 Warner, Carter White, Bonner D. Sawyer, Lloyd M. Senter Place: Orange County · Also named: W. T. Murray, Delmar BrownNC State Historic Preservation Office: Cedar Grove School, National Register nomination (OR3044), p. 21
12. 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. Place: HillsboroughSearch the index · The News of Orange County (Hillsborough), July 4, 1957, p. 1