Described as “Wilson County (NC) — July 30, 1940. Levi Simmons and C.L. Spellman inspecting his acre of peanuts. Simmons was [?] the seven projects conducted this year. He has been involved as a Minshew 4-H Club member for five years.”
Simmons was a committed member of Minshew 4-H Club, which met at Minshew School near Black Creek.

Levi Simmons, Minshew Club member was granted a second A and T College Club Scholarship for achievement in club work. The second project – 2 pigs. He will enter A and T in September to pursue an agriculture course.

Simmons graduated from C. H. Darden High School in 1940.
In 1940, David Levi Simmons registered for the World War II draft in Wayne County, NC. Per his registration card, he was born 15 May 1918 in Manning, South Carolina; lived at Route 1, Fremont, Wayne County; his contact was father Junious Simmons; and he was a student at A.&T. College, Greensboro, N.C.
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University Archives Photograph Collection, 4-H Youth Development Photographs, UA 023.008, Special Collections Research Center, N.C. State University Libraries, Raleigh, N.C.

Photograph and narrative sourced from: Lisa Y. Henderson / Black Wide Awake