Carver Heights Timeline
Carver Heights Timeline
Date |
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1925 |
EE Farley (realtor and civic leader) help raise funds for improvements to the segregated 9th Street YMCA |
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1929 |
Stock Market crash. Few few homes were built in the US between 1930-1945 |
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1936 |
Tuskegee/Morehouse annual football game established |
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1940 |
Land that was to become Carver Heights is owned by the Illges Realty Company |
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1941 |
US entry into World War II |
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1944 |
Servicemen’s Readjustment Act 1944 - establishes home loans for servicemen (inc. African Americans) |
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1945 |
World War II ended |
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1949 |
Small Homes started trending with post World War II and the Great Depression. |
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Carver Heights subdivision is plated by Wright Contracting Co |
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1950 |
Advertisement. in Ledger-Enquirer about new development of Carver Heights for Colored G.I.’s May 28, |
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1950 |
Carver Heights Motel built and is mentioned in the Negro Travelers Green Book |
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1950 |
Korean War begins |
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1952 |
First home permit purchased by Wilson Lane for two, one-story homes (cost $5000) February 6th |
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Five home permits were granted in this year |
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1953 |
RH Wright Jr & Associates receive permits to build 14 homes (including 4 jumbo houses) |
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1953 |
Colored/Fourth Avenue Library (Mildred L. Terry Library) opened as the first public black library |
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1953 |
End of Korean War |
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1954 |
E.E. Farley’s home was built (resident and realtor selling property in Carver Heights) |
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1954 |
The US Supreme Court ruled in Brown v. Board of Education that segregated public schools were unconstitutional |
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1956 |
E.E. Farley dies |
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1956 |
Dr. Thomas H. Brewer assassinated (Brewer and Farley were leaders of Columbus NAACP) |
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1958 |
Doctors establish one-day clinic at Carver Heights Motel to inoculate residents under 40 from polio |
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1958 |
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. visit Columbus to speak at Prince Hall. |
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Early 1960’s |
Becky’s Beauty Parlor opens at the Carver Heights Motel. The commercial district of Carver Heights includes a gas station, drive-through restaurant, corner store, Penny Profit general goods store and a laundromat |
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1962 |
Carver High School opened as the 2nd black High School in Columbus |
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1963 |
NAACP organizers arrive in Columbus and stay at the Carver Heights Motel. They recruit local high school students from Carver Height who frequently meet at the commercial district of Carver Heights |
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1965 |
US formal entry into the Vietnam War |
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1968 |
Martin Luther King Jr. assassinated |
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White and black teachers were transferred to racially different schools as the first step in desegregating Columbus schools. |
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1970 |
Under a federal court order city schools readjusted their student body to a ratio of 30 percent black to 70 percent white students |
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1971 |
Ella Farley sells Farley Realty to Booker Edmonds and the company is renamed Edmonds-Farley Realty |
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1975 |
City plans reveal part of Carver Heights Motel was being considered as home for a restaurant. They were not realized |
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1975 |
End of the Vietnam War |
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1980s |
Drug problems challenge the neighborhood |
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2011 |
Newly built George Washington Carver High School |
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2017 |
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Outdoor Learning Trail is established by the social justice organization Turn Around Columbus led by Ronzel Buckner |
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2918 |
Carver High School’s student body are 99% minority |