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It is a black and white photo of four gentlemen singing around a microphone. They are all wearing suits and ties with white handkerchiefs in their left breast pockets.

This is a black and white copy of the Glee Club Roll from the Allen Home High School. There are 32 names on this roll.

It is a black and white photo of the brick church with a cross on the front, plants on either side of the door with wreaths hanging on the door. It has a sign beside the building that gives the name of the church and the times it is open.

Arguably Western Carolina University’s best basketball player, Henry Lee Logan was a scoring machine known for being the first black athlete in the Southeast to play at a principally white college. Logan was born on March 14, 1946, and began his…

Western Carolina University accepted the school’s first African American student in 1957. Levern Hamlin was the first black student to be admitted and enrolled in a predominantly white state-supported college in North Carolina, according to…

Ida Jean Allen was born in Webster, North Carolina in 1921. In 1943 Allen enlisted to serve in World War II, despite the fact many told her they did not take African Americans. However, Allen was selected to be one out of forty African American women…

The lady in this colored photo is Ida Jean Allen She is wearing a blue coat and a white hat. In the photo she is sitting on a pew in a church with at least 2 others behind her.

It is a black and white photo of the Jackson County African American School plaque for grades 1-12. It states:

"This building is recognized as the last African-American educational institution in Jackson County Public Schools. Students in Jackson…