Box 186

Scope and contents From the subsubseries: The US-South Africa Leadership Exchange Program was a private non-profit organization established in 1958 and sponsored by the African-American Institute with funding provided by individual and corporate donors from the U.S. and South Africa. The organization’s purpose was to help in “understanding between South Africa and American professional, business and civic leaders.” John H. Wheeler became a member of US-SALEP in 1959, and as a fellow, he traveled to apartheid South Africa...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...