Boxing and Wrestling
Professional Wrestling
Professional Boxing
Jim Crockett
Bristol, Virginia
Garage Building
African American
This advertisement appeared in the Bristol News Bulletin on August 22, 1932. The wrestling and boxing event was promoted by Jim Crockett.
Keith S. Hebert
The Bristol News Bulletin, 22 August 1932
Newspapers.com
1932
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Boykin Street Elementary School
Education; Lee County, AL; Auburn, AL; Boykin Street Elementary School; African American Schools; Civil Rights Era; Desegregation
Auburn's first public elementary school that serviced only African-American students was founded in 1951, when it also briefly functioned as a junior high school. Boykin Street Elementary remained the institution for Auburn’s African-American grammar schoolchildren until integration in 1970. Boykin Street functioned as a middle school until the facility closed in 1983. The City of Auburn now uses the building, located at 400 Boykin Street, as a community center.
Taylor McGaughy
Image Source: http://www.alabamaasla.com/2011/05/boykin-community-center-auburn-al/
Text Sources: City of Auburn: Parks and Recreation, http://www.auburnalabama.org/parks/Default.aspx?PageID=659
The Heritage of Lee County Book Committee, The Heritage of Lee County, Alabama (Clanton, AL: Heritage Publishing Consultants, 2000), 71.
Alabama Cultural Resource Survey
2014-11-26
Taylor McGaughy
JPEG and Text
English
Still Image and Text
Ebenezer Baptist Church
Auburn, AL; Lee County, AL; African-American History; Religion; Segregation; National Register of Historic Places
Ebenezer Baptist Church was the second African-American church in the city of Auburn. The congregation was formed in 1868 and construction completed on the building in 1870. Ebenezer served as the primary member of the Auburn District Association, a collection of 27 African-American Baptist churches in Lee, Macon, and Tallapoosa counties. The association provided monetary support to the Baptist Colored University in Selma and for the creation of African-American schools in Opelika. After the departure of the Ebenezer congregation in 1969, the building was renovated by the Auburn Heritage Association. It currently serves as the home of the Auburn Unitarian Universalist Fellowship. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1975.
Evan Isaac
Image: Auburn University, http://www.auburn.edu/academic/classes/hist/3970/m2a.jpg
Text: W. Warner Floyd, NHRP Nomination Form, http://pdfhost.focus.nps.gov/docs/nrhp/text/75000317.pdf
Alabama Cultural Resource Survey
2014-12-08
Evan Isaac
JPEG and Text
English
Still Image and Text
J.F. Drake High School
Education; Lee County, AL; J.F. Drake High School; Auburn, AL; Drake, Joseph Fanning; African American Schools; Desegregation; Johnson, Judge Frank; Brown v. Board of Education; Civil Rights Movement
Auburn’s last exclusively African-American public high school was founded in 1957. J.F. Drake High School was named after Dr. Joseph Fanning Drake, and Auburn native who went on to become the president of Alabama A&M College in Huntsville. In 1968, U.S. District Court Judge Frank Johnson compelled the Lee County school system to adhere to Brown v. Board of Education. Although students were given a choice of Auburn or Drake High School in 1969, Drake’s African-American student body moved to Auburn High School en masse during the 1970-1 school year. Drake has functioned as a sixth- through eighth-grade middle school since desegregation.
Taylor McGaughy
Image Sources: https://www.auburnschools2.org/course/view.php?id=627
http://www.waymarking.com/waymarks/WMKYXZ_J_F_Drake_High_School_Alma_Mater_Auburn_AL
Text Source: The Heritage of Lee County Book Committee, The Heritage of Lee County, Alabama (Clanton, AL: Heritage Publishing Consultants, 2000), 71.
Committee for the Preservation of Auburn’s African American History, Lest We Forget: A History of African Americans of Auburn, Alabama (Auburn, AL: Committee for the Preservation of Auburn’s African American History, 2011, 119-120.
Alabama Cultural Resource Survey
2014-11-26
Taylor McGaughy
JPEG and Text
English
Still Image and Text
Leon Vandiver Oral History Recording
Montgomery; Alabama; Trenholm Court; African American; black; education; Alabama State University; Booker T. Washington High School; church; segregation; food; marching band; oral history
Oral interview of Leon Vandiver recorded by Keith S. Hebert in December 2016 for the Montgomery County Historical Society as part of their Alabama Bicentennial commemorations. The interview was conducted at Vandiver's home in Montgomery, Alabama. To listen to the full interview, <a href="https://soundcloud.com/user-319206458/vandiver-leon-2016" target="_blank">click here to access the Soundcloud file.</a>
Keith S. Hebert
To listen to the full interview, <a href="https://soundcloud.com/user-319206458/vandiver-leon-2016" target="_blank">click here to access the Soundcloud file.</a>
Alabama Cultural Resource Survey
2016
1953-2016
Montgomery County Historical Society
MP3; audio recording
English
Oral History
The Sportview
Professional Wrestling
African American
Jim Crockett
This article appeared in the Charlotte News (North Carolina) on August 10, 1934. The editorial suggests that local wrestling promoters should employ African American performers to elevate tensions with White wrestlers to draw larger crowds and publicity.
Keith S. Hebert
The Charlotte News (North Carolina)
Newspapers.com
1934
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