Second Ward High School National Alumni Foundation

 September 4, 2010

3:00 pm

           Remembering Brooklyn 

Rose Smith on East Stonewall Street in Brooklyn

A performance of excerpts from

THE SECOND CITY, a play by Ruth E. Sloane

One Performance Only Free and Open to All

   Return to a place of symbolic remembrance in the old Second Ward High School gymnasium now part of Morgan School at  700 East Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd.

   Remembering Brooklyn will be a moving event combining history and drama held on the very sight of the thriving African American neighborhood of Second Ward. This self-sustaining neighborhood rose out of slavery, flourished for a century and now lives in our stories and memories. We are celebrating the 30th Anniversary of the founding of the Second Ward High School National Alumni Foundation and demonstrating the Foundation’s work to preserve and share this community’s African American history and heritage with this event.

   Remembering Brooklyn is made possible, in part, with funding by the Arts & Science Council and the North Carolina Arts Council, an agency of the Department of Cultural Resources, and the National Endowment for the Arts, which believes that a great nation deserves great art. 

   The Second Ward High School National Alumni Foundation archives were funded in part by grants from The Z. Smith Reynolds Foundation, the Arts & Science Council and the Drakeford Company. 

• gather and preserve historic photos of the school and African American neighborhoods
• produce media products to share these images and stories.
• create archives and traveling exhibits.

 We celebrate our future and

• raise funds for college scholarships

On this website you can learn more about the history of the school and how we keep our vision alive. 

If you are a Second Ward alumnus, use this site to keep up with our news and purchase great products with our school logo.

 

The last class graduated from Second Ward in May 1969.  Second Ward High School does not exist now. The school and surrounding Second Ward neighborhood were torn down as part of Charlotte's urban renewal in the 1960s. But they exist still in our hearts.