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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1Y1S_winston-mutual-life-insurance-building-historical_Winston-Salem-NC.html
On August 6. 1906, the Winston Industrial Assoc. was established by African—American leaders to provide insurance for African—American tobacco workers. The association merged with Mountain City Mutual Life Ins. Co. in 1915 to become Wi…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1VPL_o-hanlons-office-building-historical_Winston-Salem-NC.html
O'Hanlon's Office Building
placed on
The National Register
Of Historic Places
built 1915
rehabilitated 1985
by
Aaron Group
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1V8S_winston-salem-chapter-of-the-black-panther-party-historical_Winston-Salem-NC.html
In 1969, Winston-Salem became the first Southern city with a chapter of the Black Panther Party. Nationally and locally, the Black Panthers sought to protect African—American neighborhoods from police brutality; the volatility of the times o…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1V8R_kate-bitting-reynolds-memorial-hospital-historical_Winston-Salem-NC.html
The 1938 Kate Bitting Reynolds Memorial Hospital was the first facility offering comprehensive medical care and professional medical education for African-Americans in Winston-Salem. Prompted by petitions to Mayor W.T. Wilson, William Neal Reynold…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1V8Q_east-winston-library-historical_Winston-Salem-NC.html
In April of 1953, three African—American physicians and their wives, Dr. H. Darius and Laney Malloy, Dr. H. Rembert and Elaine Malloy, and Dr. J. Charles and Beatrice Jordan offered to the city a site for the new African-American branch libr…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1V8P_reynoldstown-historic-district-historical_Winston-Salem-NC.html
In 1919, the R. J. Reynolds Tobacco Company built this neighborhood of bungalows to ease a housing shortage. Initially, a majority of the development was designated for Reynolds's white employees. The 1931 construction of Atkins High School for Af…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1V4K_consolidation-of-winston-salem-historical_Winston-Salem-NC.html
First Street marks the former boundary of Salem and Winston. Salem was founded in 1766 as the central congregational town for the Moravian Church in North Carolina. In 1849, when Forsyth County was formed, the Moravian Church sold 50ΒΌ acres immed…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1V4J_pythian-hall-historical_Winston-Salem-NC.html
Pythian Hall was constructed at this site in 1902 in a prominent African-American community. The three-story brick building housed the Prince Hall Mason's and the Knights of Pythias on the second and third floors. These fraternal organizations hel…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1FH8_tobacco-unionism_Winston-Salem-NC.html
Strike by leaf workers, mostly black and female, June 17, 1943, ½ mile W., led to seven years of labor & civil rights activism by Local 22.
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM17B2_the-honorable-willie-jones-of-halifax_Winston-Salem-NC.html
Who led the 1788 Constitutional Convention of North Carolina to decline to ratify the Federal Constitution until his State and its people were assured that a Bill of Rights would be incorporated in the United States Constitution. Perhaps more than…