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This movie poster from the 1934 movie "Judge Priest" is notable for its inclusion of Stepin Fetchit on its list of stars. Barely any black actors were ever billed at all, and achieving fame was incredibly hard. Stepin Fetchit, however, managed to…

The building that would eventually become Jones Temple AME Zion Church was first built in 1855 and used by Waynesville First Methodist until 1883, when a new church was built just off Pigeon Street. Jones Temple AME Zion Church broke off from…

The graduating class of Reynolds High School, class of ‘64, was a product of school segregation in Haywood County, N.C. Though Brown Vs. Board paved the way for school integration in 1954, state governments implemented integration slowly across the…

Audio recording of Agnes Bryson retelling her life.

A newspaper article

An easy guide to understand the exact definition of the AME Zion Church in general. AME Zion Churches exist all across the United States, South America, Africa and the West Indies and numbers over a million members in America, establishing itself as…

Nat the Cat in his DJ booth at WWIT.

This massive multimillion-dollar machine started operating in 1965, as Champion continued to grow. It could produce enough paperboard to make a pint milk carton for every man, woman and child in the United States. At that time, the mill's No. 20…

Photos of the Lowery family and newspaper article about 'Nat the Cat'