Tag: C. Eileen Watts Welch

  • Aaron’s Book The Devil’s Tale: Dispatches from the Davin M. Rubenstein Rare Book & Manuscript Library Duke University, Durham, North Carolina 2021-07-27 Blake Hill-Saya Above: Portrait in oils of Dr. Aaron McDuffie Moore painted by his daughter Lyda Moore Merrick. Located in the North Carolina Collection, Stanford L. Warren Branch of the Durham County Library,…

  • Dr. Moore was one-third of the mighty “Triumvirate” alongside John Merrick and C. C. Spaulding, credited with establishing Durham as the capital of the African American middle class in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries and founding Durham’s famed Black Wall Street.