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Box 86

 Container

Contains 1 Result:

Press Releases and Clippings, 1964 November 18-1974 May

 File — Box: 86, Folder: 8
Identifier: Series 2.
Scope and contents From the Series: This series contains the bulk of the material in the John H. Wheeler collection documenting his extensive work throughout Durham, North Carolina and the nation as a Black businessman and civil rights leader. After graduating from Morehouse College in 1929, he left Atlanta for Durham, North Carolina where he was employed at the Mechanics and Farmers Bank, a sister institution to the North Carolina Mutual Trust. He became the president of Mechanics and Farmers Bank in 1952 and under Wheeler's...
Dates: 1964 November 18-1974 May