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The Hargraves Center and Chapel Hill’s Negro Community Center

The community center begun for Black residents of Chapel Hill in 1939, finished by the Navy as quarters for the B-1 Band, opened in 1945 under an all-Black board, and renamed for William M. Hargraves in 1973.

In briefChapel Hill’s Black residents bought land for a Negro Community Center in 1939; the Navy finished the building as quarters for the B-1 Band during the war, and it opened for community use in 1945. It gained the A.D. Clark Pool in 1961, was renamed for William M. Hargraves in 1973 and added the Northside Gymnasium in 1998, and its gym was named for Nate Davis in 2022.

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  1. Citizens buy land for a Negro Community Center Ten Chapel Hill men, among them Louis Graves, R. B. House and Paul Wager, signed a $1,500 note at the Bank of Chapel Hill to buy about five acres of the old Craig place at the west end of Rosemary Lane for a Black community center. The project grew out of concerns raised by the Negro Civic Club. People: William Chambers Coker, Louis Graves, R. B. HouseThe Chapel Hill Weekly, October 6, 1939, p. 2 (People of Both Races Combine Efforts to Establish a Community Center for Negroes)
  2. Chapel Hill aldermen vote to take title to the Negro Community Center land and sponsor the project The board voted to accept title to the five-acre tract on the old Craig place at the west end of Rosemary Lane, bought with $1,500 given by citizens, and to sponsor an application to the WPA for building aid. Under a state act Mayor John M. Foushee was to name a five-member recreational commission, with staggered terms, to run the center. People: Joseph Hyde Pratt, Charles C. Craig, John M. FousheeThe Chapel Hill Weekly, May 10, 1940, p. 1
  3. Black residents hold a mass meeting to back the Negro Community Center At a mass meeting at the Black Methodist church, after songs by the Black high school's boys' and girls' choruses, Col. Joseph Hyde Pratt, Negro Civic League president Charles Craig and Kenneth Jones spoke and Hubert Robinson presided, and pledge cards for gifts of money or work were handed out. Pratt said the stone center, expected to cost $12,000 to $16,000, would be paid one-fourth locally, with Black residents giving the labor, and three-fourths by the WPA. People: Hubert Robinson, Joseph Hyde Pratt, Charles C. Craig, Kenneth JonesThe Chapel Hill Weekly, May 17, 1940, p. 1
  4. Community Center land is deeded to Chapel Hill The trustees holding the five-acre community-center site deeded it to the Town of Chapel Hill, whose aldermen had voted in May to accept the title and sponsor the project, since the WPA required government ownership. The deed limited the land to a community center and recreation for Black residents.UNC Libraries Digital Repository: History of Hargraves Center compiled by a Chapel Hill Parks and Recreation intern (late 1980s) · Also: Chapel Hill Weekly, May 10, 1940, p. 1; Chapel Hill Weekly, August 30, 1940, p. 1; Open Orange: Hargraves Community Center; Chapel Hill Weekly, February 7, 1941, p. 1
  5. The Chapel Hill aldermen create a town recreation commission On July 31, 1940, the Chapel Hill board of aldermen unanimously passed an ordinance creating a five-member recreation commission appointed by the mayor, and Mayor J. M. Foushee named R. J. M. Hobbs, Mrs. R. H. Wettach, Harold D. Meyer, A. W. Honeycutt and Joseph Hyde Pratt. A 1948 account says Hobbs was named chairman; the Chapel Hill Weekly reported that when the commission organized on September 17 it elected Pratt chairman and Honeycutt secretary. On May 8 the aldermen had agreed to sponsor a community center for Black residents to be run by such a commission, and the board had first appointed a town recreation committee on September 13, 1939. People: Richard Junius Mendenhall Hobbs, Joseph Hyde Pratt, Harold D. Meyer, John M. Foushee, Allison W. HoneycuttSearch the index · The News of Orange County (Hillsborough), June 10, 1948, p. 6 · Also: Chapel Hill Weekly, May 10, 1940, p. 1; Chapel Hill Weekly, August 30, 1940, p. 1; Chapel Hill Weekly, September 20, 1940, p. 5
  6. Charles Craig draws the plans for Chapel Hill's Negro Community Center, and the state WPA approves them Charles Craig, whom the Weekly called one of Chapel Hill's leading Black citizens, drew the plans and specifications for the Negro Community Center building on the site in the northwest part of town bought with citizens' gifts and deeded to the town, and the state WPA office in Raleigh approved them. Craig, Joseph Hyde Pratt, Roy M. Brown and George H. Lawrence were working out construction details and costs with WPA officials. People: Joseph Hyde Pratt, George H. Lawrence, Charles C. CraigThe Chapel Hill Weekly, August 30, 1940, p. 1
  7. Chapel Hill's new Recreation Commission organizes and names a town superintendent of recreation Mayor John Foushee named Joseph Hyde Pratt, A. W. Honeycutt, Harold D. Meyer, R. J. M. Hobbs and Mrs. R. H. Wettach to the town Recreation Commission by August 30. Meeting at the Town Hall on September 17, the commission chose Pratt chairman and Honeycutt secretary and appointed Jack MacPhee, the WPA recreation director, town superintendent of recreation; its plans took in the Negro Community Center, a proposed white community center, school playgrounds and recreation in Carrboro. People: Joseph Hyde Pratt, Harold D. Meyer, John M. Foushee, Allison W. HoneycuttSearch the index · The Chapel Hill Weekly, September 20, 1940, p. 5
  8. President Roosevelt approves a WPA grant for the Negro Community Center in Chapel Hill Congressman Carl Durham learned that President Roosevelt had signed approval of a $12,300 WPA grant for the Negro Community Center, to be built on five acres of the old Craig place bought with $1,500 from a group of citizens. Black masons, carpenters and other skilled workers offered labor in place of money, and Charles Craig drew the plans. People: Carl T. Durham, Joseph Hyde Pratt, Charles C. CraigThe Chapel Hill Weekly, November 15, 1940, p. 1
  9. Construction begins on the Negro Community Center Work on the Negro Community Center began on January 9, 1941, with Clarence Webb directing a crew of 20 and Charles Craig, the Black architect and contractor who drew the plans, helping supervise. A WPA grant paid most of the cost, and Black masons, carpenters and other workers donated their labor. People: Charles C. CraigThe Chapel Hill Weekly, January 10, 1941, p. 1 (Work Begun on Negro Community Center)
  10. Black citizens of Chapel Hill campaign for funds and labor for the Negro Community Center Eight committees from Black social, church, lodge and labor groups began a house-to-house canvass for the Negro Community Center, taking pledges in cash or in work to be done when needed, and set a report meeting at the Orange County Training School for March 4. A white citizens' committee published a plan to raise the remaining $9,000 of the $26,000 project. People: Joseph Hyde Pratt, Paul W. Wager, Charles C. Craig, Harold M. HolmesThe Chapel Hill Weekly, February 21, 1941, p. 1
  11. Black citizens' committee raises money to finish the Negro Community Center With W.P.A. stonework up to the first floor and about $9,000 still needed toward the $27,000 center, volunteers canvassed Chapel Hill for gifts from mid-April, and a committee of Bessie Edwards, Agnes Rankins, and Callie Strowd led a drive among Black residents, thanking donors in the Weekly and calling it very successful. A meeting for the center was held May 18 at the Rock Hill Baptist church on West Franklin Street. People: Joseph Hyde Pratt, Dudley Dewitt CarrollThe Chapel Hill Weekly, May 16, 1941, p. 8
  12. Black volunteers plaster the main hall of the Negro Community Center Four Black plasterers gave their skill and labor, working nights, to plaster the main room of the unfinished Negro Community Center near the west end of Rosemary Lane so that it could be used as an auditorium and day nursery before the building was done, while Black women served suppers to the workers. A week earlier Louis Graves had reported the stone building roofed with a bank loan and credit, about $24,200 having gone into it, $16,000 from the WPA and $5,950 from local givers, with $2,250 still owed. People: Louis Graves, Paul W. WagerThe Chapel Hill Weekly, March 6, 1942, p. 2
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  1. The Navy B-1 Band lives in the Community Center With the community center unfinished for lack of funds, the town lent it on May 22, 1942 to the Navy as quarters for the B-1 Band, the Black musicians of the Pre-Flight School. The Navy, not the band, finished and equipped the building. The band, trained at Norfolk, arrived on July 31, 1942 and lived there until the town regained it on October 24, 1945.The Chapel Hill Weekly, November 13, 1942, p. 1 (open house at the Negro Community Center) · Also: Chapel Hill Weekly, May 22, 1942, p. 1; Chapel Hill Weekly, July 31, 1942, p. 1; Chapel Hill Weekly, August 7, 1942, p. 1
  2. The Navy B-1 Band serves at Chapel Hill The B-1 Band, 44 Black musicians sworn in at Raleigh on May 27, 1942 as the first African Americans to serve in the Navy at general rank, played for the Navy Pre-Flight School at UNC from July 1942 to April 1944. Barred from campus housing, they lived in the new Black community center on Roberson Street, now the Hargraves Center.Search the index · UNC-Chapel Hill: Pioneers of integration (May 25, 2017) · Also: Chapel Hill Weekly, August 7, 1942, p. 1
  3. The Pre-Flight School's Black Navy band gives its first public concert The band of Black North Carolina musicians enlisted for the Naval Pre-Flight School gave its first public concert on a Sunday evening in Kenan Stadium, open to everyone. The Weekly reported a good crowd and praised the playing; the band had come from training at Norfolk on July 31 and was quartered in the Negro Community Center.The Chapel Hill Weekly, September 4, 1942, p. 5
  4. The Pre-Flight School's Black Navy band holds a formal party at its community center quarters The Pre-Flight School gave its 44-man band, the first all-Black Navy band of the war, a formal banquet and dance at its quarters, the stone building begun as a community center for Chapel Hill's Black residents, with guests brought by Navy bus from the Black colleges in Durham and Greensboro. Commander and Mrs. Kessing sat at the tables with the bandsmen, and Kessing gave the band the next day off. People: Oliver Owen KessingCloudbuster (Navy Pre-Flight School, Chapel Hill), October 24, 1942, p. 4
  5. Navy Pre-Flight band holds open house at the community center for Black residents The Navy Pre-Flight School band, made up of Black men enlisted in North Carolina, showed white residents of Chapel Hill and Carrboro through its quarters in the Negro Community Center, which the Navy had finished and enlarged in lieu of rent. The Weekly reported that the building would become the social and recreational center for Black residents of both towns after the war. People: Harold D. Meyer, John P. GraffThe Chapel Hill Weekly, November 13, 1942, p. 1
  6. Navy Pre-Flight band gives a Christmas party for Black children at the community center The Navy Pre-Flight School band gave a Christmas party, with a tree, gifts and refreshments, for the Black children of Chapel Hill and Carrboro at the Negro Community Center. The Weekly noted that the band opened the center to the public every afternoon, showed free movies on Friday evenings, let boys use the playground and drill field, and had given two concerts at the Orange County Training School.The Chapel Hill Weekly, December 24, 1942, p. 4
  7. The Navy B-1 Band leaves Chapel Hill for service in Hawaii The B-1 Band, the first Black Navy unit whose members held a rating above messman, cook or steward, was sent from Chapel Hill to Hawaii after nearly two years of playing across the campus and town.NC State Historic Preservation Office: Navy Reserve Officers Training Corps (NROTC) Naval Armory at UNC-Chapel Hill, National Register nomination (OR1541), p. 34 · Also: Cloudbuster (Navy Pre-Flight School, Chapel Hill), April 29, 1944, p. 1
  8. The Negro Community Center opens for community use After the Navy Pre-Flight School wound down, the community center returned to town control on October 24, 1945 and opened to Black residents of Chapel Hill and Carrboro. By December a nursery school filled the basement, and an all-Black board chaired by Hubert Roberson ran the building under the Town Recreation Commission.The Chapel Hill Weekly, December 7, 1945, p. 1 (Nursery School in Negro Center) · Also: Chapel Hill Weekly, July 9, 1943, p. 1
  9. The Chapel Hill Recreation Commission sets up the Negro Community Center after the Navy band leaves Leaders met to open and run the Community Center the Navy band had just vacated. The nursery school took the lower floor, Henry Edwards became superintendent of the building, and Melvin J. Scales was named program director, with the center open five days a week. People: Hubert Robinson, Harold D. MeyerThe News of Orange County (Hillsborough), December 6, 1945, p. 5
  10. Chapel Hill's Black community celebrates Emancipation Day at the Community Center The Negro Community Center held an Emancipation Day program with a reading of the proclamation and an address by Dr. C. E. Boulware of North Carolina College on 'The Building of a Great People.' Pioneer citizens and club leaders were recognized. People: Hubert RobinsonThe News of Orange County (Hillsborough), January 10, 1946, p. 3
  11. Chapel Hill's Black community holds a week's drive for its Community Center and nursery school With all government money for its nursery school withdrawn, Chapel Hill's Black community held Community Center and Nursery School Week to pay for the school, more auditorium chairs and painting, closing with a rally where Chancellor R. B. House spoke. The week raised $643.47, well short of the goal. People: R. B. House, Kenneth JonesThe News of Orange County (Hillsborough), July 11, 1946, p. 7
  12. Chapel Hill opens a joint fund drive for its recreation center, Black community center and nursery Civic groups opened a $5,000 campaign led by Roy Barham to carry the white Recreation Center, the Black Community Center and the Black nursery school through 1947. The town gave $300 each to the two centers, which counted 27,304 and 8,651 visits during the year. People: R. D. Smith, Kenneth JonesThe News of Orange County (Hillsborough), December 5, 1946, p. 1
  13. Chapel Hill NAACP holds its first meeting at the Community Center In October 1947 local organizers held the first meeting of the Chapel Hill branch of the NAACP, a milestone for the Negro Community Center, now the Hargraves Center. By late November the chapter was meeting at the center, where it re-elected Adolphus Clark as president. The branch marked 75 years in 2022.NC African American Heritage Commission: Hargraves Community Center (1942), NC Civil Rights Trail · Also: Chapel Hill Weekly, November 28, 1947, p. 5; Open Orange: Hargraves Community Center
  14. 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.In 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
  15. 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 CaldwellThe News of Orange County (Hillsborough), November 5, 1959, p. 13
  16. 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 CaldwellThe News of Orange County (Hillsborough), January 21, 1960, p. 6
  17. An anonymous donor offers $40,000 for a swimming pool for Chapel Hill's Black community An unnamed donor offered the Chapel Hill-Carrboro Swimming Pool Association $40,000 to build a pool for the town's Black community. The association asked to build it on town land at the Negro Community Center and then turn it over to the town to run, and the aldermen began checking the cost and the town's liability.The News of Orange County (Hillsborough), July 21, 1960, p. 13
  18. 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 CaldwellThe News of Orange County (Hillsborough), August 18, 1960, p. 1
  19. A.D. Clark Pool opens Chapel Hill's swimming pool for Black residents, at the Roberson Street community center and now the A.D. Clark Pool, was dedicated on June 15, 1961. Cornelia Spencer Love gave $40,000 to build it, Black residents supplied labor and raised money for the bath house, and Adolphus D. Clark led the pool association. People: Cornelia Spencer LoveChapel Hill Weekly (June 19, 1961): pool dedication report
  20. Fred Battle directs the Hargraves Center Fred Battle, a Lincoln High graduate of 1962, directed Chapel Hill's Hargraves Center, the former Negro Community Center on Roberson Street, from 1970 to 1987.Search the index · Chapelboro: Renaming of Gym, Basketball Court Honors Chapel Hill Community Leaders
  21. Black residents question the police handling of the Cates killing Black residents met at the Roberson Street Center to discuss how police handled the stabbing, young Black residents of Chapel Hill and Carrboro asked the Justice Department to investigate the campus police, and a fund was started to hire extra counsel for the prosecution. Vice Chancellor Joseph Eagles and Assistant Chancellor Claiborne Jones began reviewing the campus police response.The Daily Tar Heel, December 1, 1970, p. 1
  22. The Community Center is renamed for William M. Hargraves Chapel Hill's Roberson Street Center, built in the 1940s as the town's segregated Negro Community Center, was renamed in 1973 the William M. Hargraves Recreation Center. Hargraves, a Black resident who had served on the Chapel Hill Parks and Recreation Commission, had died in an automobile accident.UNC Libraries Digital Repository: History of Hargraves Center compiled by a Chapel Hill Parks and Recreation intern
  23. A second story is added to the Hargraves Center's lower stone wing In 1980 the one-story stone wing at the lower east side of the Hargraves Community Center on North Roberson Street was enlarged with a frame second story clad in horizontal siding.NC State Historic Preservation Office: Jeter and Ethel Neville House, National Register nomination (OR3151), p. 23
  24. Northside Gymnasium opens at Hargraves Park Chapel Hill's Northside Gymnasium at William H. Hargraves Park, beside the Hargraves Center on North Roberson Street, opened to the public on June 15, 1998. Construction began April 21, 1997, paid for in part with parks bonds voters approved in November 1996, and the gym was dedicated on September 16, 1998.The Daily Tar Heel, September 17, 1998, p. 2: Northside Celebrates Gym Opening
  25. Family and community march to remember James Cates on the 50th anniversary A candlelit march went from Hargraves Community Center to St. Joseph CME Church and down Franklin Street to Peace and Justice Plaza, where the Town of Chapel Hill invited residents to leave flowers and messages for the Cates family. Mayor Pam Hemminger pledged to work with the family and UNC to investigate the killing. People: Danita Mason-Hogans, James L. Cates Jr., Pam HemmingerChapelboro: Family, Community Members March to Remember James Cates 50 Years Later
  26. Chapel Hill names the Hargraves Center gym for Nate Davis The Town Council unanimously approved naming the Northside Gym at the Hargraves Community Center for Davis, the center's director for more than three decades, and its indoor court for Fred Battle, director from 1970 to 1987. People: Fred BattleSearch the index · Chapelboro: Renaming of Gym, Basketball Court Honors Chapel Hill Community Leaders

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Oral history interview with Fred Battle, January 3, 2001: interview K-0525, Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007)

Battle, Fred · 2006 · University Library, UNC-Chapel Hill

Fred Battle grew up in Chapel Hill under segregation and describes that world in a Southern Oral History Program interview recorded January 3, 2001, by Bob Gilgor. He portrays the Black community of his youth as centered on the church and on Lincoln High School, recalls his schooling there, and tells of his college years in Greensboro and the civil rights demonstrations he joined there. Published online in 2006 by the UNC-Chapel Hill Library in Documenting the American South.

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NC Cardinal UNC

Welcome to Coker Arboretum of the North Carolina Botanical Garden, the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

North Carolina Botanical Garden · 2000 · The Botanical Garden

Visitor guide to the Coker Arboretum on the University of North Carolina campus in Chapel Hill, issued by the North Carolina Botanical Garden in 2000. It covers the arboretum's history and William Chambers Coker, the botanist it is named for, who died in 1953. A short orientation piece for people walking the grounds.

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Orange County, 1752-1952, edited by Hugh Lefler and Paul Wager

Lefler, Hugh Talmage,; Wager, Paul W. · 1953

Hugh Lefler and Paul Wager edited this history of Orange County covering 1752 to 1952, published in 1953 for the county's two hundredth year in 389 pages with illustrations, portraits and maps.

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William T. Alexander oral history interview 2, 1992 April 25

Alexander, William Tasse, 1904-1992 · 1992

William T. Alexander (1904 to 1992), in the second of three interviews, describes his schooling in Mecklenburg County, Charlotte and Chapel Hill in the 1910s and 1920s, beginning at the one-room Mallard Creek School. Rural education, corporal punishment, getting children to school, amusements, student life at UNC and the botanist William Chambers Coker come up. About 64 minutes, April 1992, tied to the William Tasse Alexander Family Papers, MS0256.

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Recording with Dr. Paul Wager, 1973 (Chapel Hill Historical Society cassette)

1973

Dr. Paul Wager, recorded on cassette in 1973 for the Chapel Hill Historical Society. Part of the society's CHHS.012 Audiovisual Materials Collection.

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H.R. Totten papers, 1912-1973.

Totten, H. R. (Henry Roland), 1892-1974 · 1912

Eight linear feet and about 5,000 items make up the H. R. Totten papers, 1912 to 1973, in the Southern Historical Collection at UNC, collection 3843. Maps are among the material. Subjects include botanical gardens and arboretums in North Carolina, the Highlands Biological Station, medicinal plants and mushroom culture, the Department of Botany at Chapel Hill and William Chambers Coker, and the American Expeditionary Forces in France.

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William Chambers Coker papers, 1884-1956 (bulk 1914-1950).

Coker, William Chambers, 1872-1953 · 1884

Botanist William Chambers Coker (1872-1953) left papers running 1884 to 1956, the bulk between 1914 and 1950: about 29,000 items in 36.5 linear feet, part of the Southern Historical Collection at UNC, collection 3220. Topics include mycology and the teaching of botany, the Coker Arboretum, the Highlands Biological Station, the Elisha Mitchell Scientific Society and the Garden Club of North Carolina, along with family social life in North Carolina.

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UNC

William Lanier Hunt papers, 1880s-1996.

Hunt, William Lanier · 1884

Papers of the horticulturist William Lanier Hunt, dated from the 1880s to 1996, about 40,000 items in 130 linear feet, part of the Southern Historical Collection at UNC, collection 5286. Topics include southern gardens and garden design, horticultural societies and teaching, the North Carolina Botanical Garden and its foundation, photographs of flowers, and the botanist William Chambers Coker at Chapel Hill.

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UNC

Louis and Mildred Graves papers, 1814 ; 1876-1992.

Graves, Louis, 1883-1965 · 1814

Louis Graves (1883-1965) and Mildred Moses Graves left roughly 7,700 items in eleven linear feet, a single 1814 document and then a run from 1876 to 1992, in the Southern Historical Collection at UNC, collection 4010. Graves edited the Chapel Hill Weekly, and topics include North Carolina newspapers and their editors alongside family photographs, travel diaries and the social life of the Graves and Moses families.

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