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African American families -- North Carolina -- Durham County

 Subject
Subject Source: Local sources

Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:

Mary Elliott photographs

 Collection
Identifier: NCC-0075
Scope and Contents

This collection consists of 30 slide photographs depicting the life of the Elliott family from the 1910s until 1970, the majority covering the 1950s-1960s.

Dates: 1910s-1979

Parker family papers

 Collection
Identifier: NCC-0133
Scope and Contents

The Parker family papers contain a large quantity of correspondence, mostly of Nancy Parker and her sons. They also include financial records and other materials that document the everyday life of the Parker family as African-American farmers in the 1940s and 1950s.

Dates: 1890 - 2010; Majority of material found within 1940s-1950s