![]() "negro dog" "red light" house 4-H Club 10th Cavalry Regiment 50th anniversary 60th anniversary 100th anniversary 135th Regiment 500 block 1619 A.M.E. | B… on Lynch’s 54 acres on Homi…Ĭountry burials. ![]() Wyatt Lynch’s… on Lynch’s 54 acres on Homi…Ĭountry burials. Lane Street Project: Barton College Day of Service cleanup.Ĭountry burials.The last will and testament of Stephen Woodard Sr.Posted in 1940s, City of Wilson, Military, Newspapers, race, Work Life and tagged vagrancy law, work or fight, World War II on Octoby Lisa Y. ![]() Walker registered for the World War II draft in 1940. Mitchell, 6 and lodger Pauline Currie, 22. In the 1940 census of Saratoga township, Wilson County: farm laborer John Farmer, 36, and wife Cora, 35 stepson Lee Walker, 24 stepdaughter Rosa M. In the 1940 census of Wilson, Wilson County: Georgia-born Lem Davis, 53, fertilizer plant laborer wife Mary, 33 and son Jasper, 6, born in Tennessee plus sister-in-law Annie Allen, 24, tobacco factory laborer, and her children Hilda, 7, Mildred, 6, Helen, 4, and Willie, 1. McCoy registered for the World War II draft in 1940. In the 1940 census 0f Wilson township, Wilson County: Eddie McCoy, 23, farmer wife Evella, 21 and children Devella, 2, and Jimmie, 1. In 1942, Julius Finch registered for the World War II draft in Allegheny County, Pennsylvania. Perhaps, in 1944, Willie Lucas registered for the World War II draft in Wilson County. In September 1944, six men were sentenced under the law: Those who refused or, as here, left low-paying jobs to seek higher-paying work, could be arrested as “vagrants” and sentenced to “the roads,” i.e. Wartime “work or fight” ordinances required Black men found “unfit” for military duty to work for whomever was offering jobs at whatever the wages.
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