The Glee Club of Olive Hill High School on West Concord Street, ca 1957. Olive Hill was the only high school for black students in Burke County prior to integration in 1965. Front row (from left): Roy McCullough, music director; Joyce Ervin; Vera Lee Avery; Clara Mae Tate; Wanda Williams; James Johnson; Calvin Johnson; Gaston Fleming; Patsy Williams Carley Ann McLean; Doris Tate; and Jean Fleming. Second row (from left): Vera McKesson; Faye Conley; Ann Conley; Stony Berry; Frank Perkins; Faye Bristol; Raye Bristol; Barbara Caldwell; and Barbara Harbison. Third row (from left): Bobbie Tate; Barbara Bristol; Betty Thomas; Thelma Johnson; Carolyn Williams; Effie Harbison; Jimmy Caldwell; Allen Kincaid; Johnny Tate; Monroe Fleming; Bivens Pearson; Edward McKesson; Frankie Kincaid; Nan Avery; Edith Carter; Elaine Caldwell; and Carolyn Long. Nettie McGimpsey McIntosh provided this image to Picture Burke, a digital photograph preservation project of the of the NC Room of the Burke County Public Library.
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