1900 Block of Henderson Street
During the early twentieth century, this block was home to many middle-class African American families. They included William J. Sumter, the proprietor of Sumter’s Barber Shop on Main Street, Charles H. Brown, a clergyman at Second Calvary Baptist Church, Shelley Rice Pride, who taught at Booker T. Washington High School, and nurses Penny Whitker and Lizzie Smith, who cared for African American patients at the Parker Annex at the South Carolina State Hospital. According to the 1920 U.S. census, other residents on this block included a baker, a butcher, and a blacksmith.
