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42972
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Douglas secured federal funds in the 1930s to build Memorial Stadium in Charlotte. President Roosevelt attended the Stadium's dedication in 1936. At the same time, Douglas also found funding for Charlotte Memorial Hospital., North Carolina's first municipal art museum (Mint Museum of Art) and the first subsidized affordable housing for Black Charlotteans in 1940.
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43642
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Discussed are the new Five Points Plaza sculpture, the railroad builder at Trade and Tryon Streets, the Abel Jackson Mural on South Brevard Street, the Thad Tate statue, the Sam Billings statue and Jamil Dyair's work on West Trade street and interstate 77.
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The Briarhoppers, a long-time performing group on Charlotte radio station WBT, received a 2002 North Carolina Folklore Society Brown-Hudson Award. The string band, organized in 1935, has performed for 67 years. The group is seen by musicologists as \"an important link between the music of the pre-industrial South and the full-blown commercial country sounds of the late twentieth century.\"
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North Carolina Folklore Journal
(NoCar GR 110 N8 N6), Vol. 49 Issue 2, Fall-Winter 2002,
p116-118, il
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43254
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"The original McCrorey YMCA, a cornerstone of the long-gone Black neighborhood, wins designation as a historic property.' At one time, Brooklyn was the center of Black life in Charlotte.
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A simple but sturdy design employing a continuous curve of corrugated metal forming both sides and a roof, the Quonset hut was developed by the Navy at Quonset Point Naval Air Station in Rhode Island during World War II. In 1946, Howard R. Biggers began an industrial development on Charlotte's Atando Avenue. where Quonset franchise holders purchased property to start Piedmont Steel Buildings.
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43478
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"Librarian Shelia Bumgarner fielded the call that led to the historic Harris Map's donation to the Charlotte Mecklenburg Library. John O'Connor, director of the library's Robinson-Spangler Carolina Room sent it off for restoration." Created in 1855 for use by city tax collector, Samuel A. Harris, the map is the oldest detailed map known for Charlotte. It was recently given to the Robinson-Spangler Carolina Room at the Charlotte Mecklenburg Library, one of the southeast's best local history collections.
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43178
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A look back at downtown Charlotte from World War II, its demise with urban flight in the 1970s and again today with few shopping venues remaining but instead, an abundant number of restaurants, a rarity in the 1940s.
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Scancarelli received the award for his behind the scenes work recording and promoting musical traditions. He led recording teams, took photos, wrote liner notes, created cover art, and distributed annual LP recordings on his own label.
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North Carolina Folklore Journal
(NoCar GR 110 N8 N6), Vol. 49 Issue 2, Fall-Winter 2002,
p119-121
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18875
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In the antebellum South, building artisans were often black slaves. In Charlotte, North Carolina during the first years of the 20th-century, W.W. Smith rose from the ranks of building tradesman to architect, designing substantial structures in Charlotte and Salisbury.
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43166
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To mark its centennial year of operation in 1959, the famed A&P grocery chain adopted a new store deign, reminenscent of buildings in Colonial Williamsburg, then majoe tourist attraction. In Charlotte, the store erected on Freedom Avenue was one of the first in the nation to employ the new concept.
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By the 1950s, Malcolm McLean of Robeson County had built one of the country's biggest transportation firms, the McLean Trucking Company. In 1956, he turned an idea he had been thinking about since 1937 into a reality. His invention 'containerized shipping' revolutionized the world of shipping. His idea was to build a tractor-trailer truck in which the trailer part could be lifted onto a ship or onto railroad cars, without anyone touching the contents, and transported to a particular destination, where it was loaded back onto a truck and delivered to the customers.
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This article examines North Carolina's experience with the Rosenwald Schools, using Mecklenburg County as the case study. Rosenwald Schools were an educational system for Southern black children who were excluded from white schools. Founded in the 1910s by Booker T. Washington and philanthropist Julius Rosenwald, the schools were a limited success. Over 5,300 schools were constructed throughout the South and Mecklenburg County had 26. By the 1930s though, the Rosenwald Foundation admitted that the schools were not accomplishing the desired effect of educating blacks to live in a white-dominated society. The foundation then stopped funding the schools in order to promote black and white cooperation through other methods.
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North Carolina Historical Review
(NoCar F251 .N892), Vol. 65 Issue 4, Oct 1988,
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42977
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Battles over the uptown/downtown label have been frequent through the years. Newspaper archives in the Robinson-Spangler Carolina Room of the Charlotte Mecklenburg Library prove "uptown" was the earliest adjective used to describe the city's central business area.
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