The Heritage of the Mary B. Talbert Home
The Mary B. Talbert Home for Women was built in 1939 by C. E. Lightner and Brothers Company. The house stood on E. Davie Street where the playground of Moore Square Middle School is today.[1]
The following information is taken directly out of a personal interview in The Urban Negro in the South. “….I am a member of the Women’ Club, originally called the Woman’s Reading Club. It was for married women, and while possible members were discussed, no invitation was necessary to join it. In late years it started taking in unmarried women too, for we felt that both should belong. The Mary Talbert Home grew out of this club.
“The origin, development, and functioning of the Mary Talbert Home are especially representative of the implied indirection which has obtained in relationships of women’s formal groups to the Negro Main Street. The ensuing statements bear this out.
“I organized the Mary Talbert Home for...
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