Board of directors of the Coleman manufacturing co., Concord, N.C., the only Negro cotton mill in the U.S.nation's first textile factory owned and operated by African Americans operated from 1896 to 1904.

R. B. Fitzgerald, of Durham, N. C., president; E. A. Johnson, of Raleigh, N. C., vice-president, and W. C. Coleman, of Concord, N. C., secretary and treasurer. The following gentlemen constitute the board of directors: Rev. S. C. Thompson, Camden, S. C.; L. P. Berry, Statesville, N. C.; John C. Dancy, Salisbury, N. C.; Prof. S. B. Pride, Charlotte, N. C.; Prof. C. F. Meserve, Raleigh, N. C., and Robert McRae, Concord, N. C. (not all are pictured

1935
Concord Weavers
Baseball Team

Young Women's Auxiliary of First Baptist Church of Kannapolis taken in front of the church in the 1920s. My mother Amanda Mae Brindle is on the right of the 3rd row, her friends Bessie Bostian and Wilaree Tate are on the lst row 2nd and 3rd from the right.

Submitted by Zelia Cline