African Americans -- Segregation
Found in 3 Collections and/or Records:
Durham County Personal Property and Poll Tax Registers, 1936 and undated
Both registers list taxpayer names and payments. The 1936 register is organized by township. Townships include Durham, Carr, Cedar Fork, Lebanon, Mangum, Oak Grove, and Patterson. The undated register is organized into city and surrounding township records. Both registers have separate sections for white and colored taxpayers.
Durham sit-ins flyer
Violet Park Cemetery burial records and other materials
The collection includes 1992-1995 correspondence from historian R. Kelly Bryant to the Durham County Library and North Carolina State Archives, listings of more than 1,900 burials recorded at Violet Park Cemetery compiled by Carrie McNair, a 1969 Morning Herald article, and a 1994 Herald Sun article. The burials were recorded by Carrie McNair in 1994 onto 56 pages listing up to 35 names per page, including birth and death dates for each name.