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A series detailing major events in Winston Salem's Black community
that took place between 1945 and 1950. Included in this particular publication are
pieces on the 1947 Strike of the Local 22 of the Food, Tobacco, Agriculture, and
Allied Workers Union of America at R. J. Reynolds tobacco company, the integration
of the Military following WWII, and the election of Dr. Kenneth R. Williams to the
Winston Salem Board of Alderman, "making him the first black to be elected to a
political office in the South since Reconstruction."