North Carolina's Social Welfare Program for Negroes, 1926

North Carolina’s Social Welfare Program for Negroes, a 1926 series of photos from the North Carolina State Board of Charities and Public Welfare, Raleigh, placed online by the New York Public Library. Social welfare in 1926 terms included schools, hospitals and prisons, as well as orphanages. http://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/510d47df-e95c-a3d9-e040-e00a18064a99/book?parent=bd850d80-c6b2-012f-0aa0-58d385a7bc34#page/1/mode/2up

Frank—One of North Carolina’s Social Liabilities [There is no explanation as to why this young man would be considered a social liability.]

Welfare Institute for Negro Social Workers, Held January 13, 14, and 15, 1926, at the Winston-Salem Teachers’ College.

The following are captions for the rest of the photos in this report:
The Men’s Ward, Negro Division, State Tuberculosis Sanatorium, Sanatorium, N.C.

Lincoln Hospital, Durham, N.C., A general hospital for Negroes.

Administration Building, State School for Negro deaf, dumb, and blind, Raleigh, N.C.

The State Hospital for Negro Insane, Goldsboro, N.C.

St. Agnes Hospital, Raleigh, N.C., A general hospital for Negroes.

The Bishop Tuttle School, Raleigh, N.C., A national center for the training of young Negro women in Christian leadership and social work.

The Old State’s Prison Camp for Negroes, Cary, N.C.

The New State’s Prison Camp for Negroes, Cary, N.C.

The Angier B. Duke Memorial Building, Colored Orphanage, Oxford, N.C.

14^th Street School, Winston-Salem, N.C. One of the modern public school buildings for Negroes in North Carolina.

The Administration Building, The Morrison Training School, Hoffman, N.C. A state institution for delinquent Negro boys.

Negro Unit—State Orthopedic Hospital, Gastonia, N.C. A first from B.N. Duke and presented to the State March 15, 1926.

The Old Harnett County Negro Rural School, 1924

The New Harnett County Negro Rural High School, 1926. A Rosenwald School. [Julius Rosenwald, part owner and president of Sears, Roebuck and Company, provided seed money for schools to educate Negroes in the South. To qualify for a Rosenwald school, the community had to come up with the remaining funds.]