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🔹 Marie
Louise Clay Clinton (1871–1934)
Educator, Fisk
Jubilee Singer, and national missionary leader, Marie L. Clinton
helped shape Black youth and religious life across the A.M.E. Zion
Church. After settling in Charlotte in 1901, she founded the Buds
of Promise Juvenile Society and led it for nearly 30 years.
She also directed the Industrial Home for Colored Girls
and represented Zion women internationally. Her legacy lives on in
Marie L. Clinton Day, still observed by A.M.E. Zion
churches each January.
🔹 Charles
H. Watson (c.1870–unknown)
Editor of the 1915 booklet
Colored Charlotte, Watson documented 50 years of Negro
achievement since Emancipation. He co-developed Washington
Heights, Charlotte’s first Black streetcar suburb, and
opened Watson Park, one of the few Black recreation
areas of the era. A trustee of Charlotte’s Colored Library, he
promoted uplift through publishing, housing, and civic pride.
🎟️ Walk
where they led during the
👉🏾 28th
Annual QCT Charlotte Pilgrimage Toursm
– Feb 2026
📍 Tickets: charlottepilgrimagetour.com
📚 Sources:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marie_L._Clinton
https://goodnewsfirstchurch.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/January2024-Final.pdf
https://amezion.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/MarieLClinton_Program_2024_Final.pdf
https://kids.kiddle.co/Marie_L._Clinton
https://lib.digitalnc.org/record/25431/files/dirmeck_009690_000001.pdf
https://openlibrary.org/books/OL26452071M/Colored_Charlotte
https://charlotteudo.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/SAMPLE_OaklawnPark_LocalDistrictDesignationReport_Final.pdf
https://guides.library.charlotte.edu/c.php?g=621704&p=5213318
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