The 56th Annual NAACP Freedom Fund Banquet was held on October 19, 2019, commemorating the 400th Anniversary of Slavery in America. View photos from the event HERE View videos from the event HERE
“James Tolbert, the highly regarded, firm, soft-spoken leader in matters involving human rights died in October, 2017 and was honored by an overflow audience at the venerable Zion Episcopal Church in Charles Town. In 2014, he recounted to Jim Surkamp …
Founder Father & Secretary of the Jefferson County Black History Preservation Society James Alvin Tolbert, Sr. of Charles Town, WV passed on October 26, 2017. He was a guest of Hospice of the Panhandle, Kearneysville, WV. He was born in …
Click on the links below to view three local news clips from the 150th Anniversary of Storer College. #FindUsFridays: Storer College’s 150th anniversary Storer College kicks off sesquicentennial weekend celebrations ‘The Hands of a Master’ recital highlights award-winning musician
(Courtesy of the Washington Post) William Vollin remembers first climbing the hill to Storer College in 1947. He was 16, a black kid on scholarship who arrived at Harpers Ferry, W.Va., with a change of clothing in a paper sack. …
A black college closed in 1955, but its fading alumni fight to pass on a legacy Read more »
(The post below is taken from the article in The Spirit of Jefferson and Farmer’s Advocate, A Civil Life, by Robert Snyder, February 25, 2015) James Tolbert remembers when his neighbors along Academy Street owned their own homes, when they tended to vegetable …