Collection Timeline

1961 to 2022

1961
West Concord Mothers Present at Morganton Board of Aldermen
Special Meeting of the Morganton Board of Aldermen, Town Council, and West Concord Mothers
Board Tells Negros: No Transportation to School Allowed by John W. Beach, News Herald Article

1963
Sees No Racial Progress by John E. Fleming, Letter to News Herald Editor
City School Board Assigns Negros by Dorothy Cable, News Herald Article
Decision Has Been Expected by Stanley Moore, News Herald Editorial

1964
Practicing and Preaching by Mildred Largent, Letter to News Herald Editor

1965
Mountain View Elementary School, Third Grade Class Photo

2005
Growing Up When Things Were Black and White by Kerri McFalls, News Herald Article
Remembering a Time Past by Loretta Whiteside, News Herald Article
Seven Mothers Shared One Goal: A Better Education by Sharon McBrayer, News Herald Article

2006
Mildred Largent by Erma McGimpsey, News Herald Article

2012
W.F. McIntosh and Robert Caldwell Oral History
A Powder Keg that Could Very Easily Explode: Race, Paternalism, and Protest in Morganton, North Carolina
The Fight for Equality: It was a Long Road to a Desegregated Burke County by Cheryl M. Shuffler, News Herald Article

2015
Seven Mothers: New Day Christian Church Script, a program by Gary Harbison

2017
Children of the Struggle: The Desegregation of Burke County, N.C. Public Schools

2022
Andrea Chambers Lytle and Jeannie Chambers Logan Oral History
The West Concord Mothers: Coming into the Light, by Leslie D. McKesson, News Herald Article
Artie McKesson Logan Oral History
Richard Johnson, Christobel Johnson, and Andrea Chambers Lytle Oral History