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for Charlotte--History
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24898
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An examination of the life of an average citizen living in Charlotte in 1968 provides a view of the history of race relations, from the desegregation lunch counters to the still-present dangers for African Americans today.
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Charlotte Magazine
(NoCar F 264.C4), Vol. 18 Issue 9, September 2013,
p64-71, il, por
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24920
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Various former players and those who got the ball rolling on the Charlotte Hornets relay their experience from the very beginning of trying to get the team for Charlotte all the way to the first hornet baby. They struggles and the successes are all told from various perspectives making an interesting view of one of Charlotte's favorite memories.
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Charlotte Magazine
(NoCar F 264.C4), Vol. 18 Issue 11, November 2013,
p44-51, 100, 102, 104-111, il, por
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24922
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The old Park Road Shopping Center in Charlotte is now under new ownership. Those who have been going there since it opened in 1956 are hoping it will keep its heart and character.
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Charlotte Magazine
(NoCar F 264.C4), Vol. 18 Issue 11, November 2013,
p58-63, il, por
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24943
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Part of a twelve part series, The Story of Charlotte: Part 3 talks about the gold rush in Charlotte starting in 1799. People from all over rush in to make their fortune in gold. Over the next decades, the rush accelerated until the recession in 1837.
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Charlotte Magazine
(NoCar F 264.C4), Vol. 19 Issue 7, July 2014,
p43-44, 46-48, por
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24949
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Jeremy Markovich wonders what his grandchildren will think of his behavior. Considering the way his generation viewed the discrimination against blacks during the Civil Rights Movement, he wonders if there are despicable things this generation will have done in hindsight.
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24952
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Part four of a twelve part series describes the growth of Charlotte in the twenty years leading up to the Civil War. The building of a railroad connection to Charleston, South Carolina helped to stabilize the local economy after the gold rush ended in 1840. Fear of abolitionists and slaves escaping encouraged tensions before the war.
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24964
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Life in Charlotte during the Civil War was a depressing and terrifying time. Between the number of wounded arriving and the fear of Sherman’s troops arriving, tensions were high as what originally seemed like certain victory eventually turned into an inevitable defeat. Part 5 of a 12 part series on the history of Charlotte.
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Charlotte Magazine
(NoCar F 264.C4), Vol. 19 Issue 9, September 2014,
p39-42, 44, 46-47, por
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24971
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In a landmark battle, Charlotte instituted busing students to achieve school desegregation. Follow the journey from the initial lawsuit about integration, through the courts and the “white flight” that ensued.
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Charlotte Magazine
(NoCar F 264.C4), Vol. 19 Issue 9, September 2014,
p78-79, por
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24973
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Virginia Brown reviews what it was like to go to First Ward when busing was instituted in Charlotte. The long bus ride was difficult, but the exposure to people different from herself made the experience well worth the ride.
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Charlotte Magazine
(NoCar F 264.C4), Vol. 19 Issue 9, September 2014,
p86-87, il, por
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24980
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Part 6 of a twelve part series on the history of Charlotte focuses on the Reconstruction. With the help of the Republican Party, blacks became active citizens. Some whites resisted this change, and political unrest ensues.
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Charlotte Magazine
(NoCar F 264.C4), Vol. 19 Issue 10, October 2014,
p37-38, 40, 42-45, por
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24984
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Wayne Jernigan has enjoyed a long career in the music recording industry. Everyone from James Brown or Tammy Faye Bakker has recorded at his studio.
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Charlotte Magazine
(NoCar F 264.C4), Vol. 19 Issue 10, October 2014,
p80-86, il, por
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24993
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Part seven of a twelve part series traces the history of Charlotte from beginning of the Jim Crow era through the Prohibition.
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Charlotte Magazine
(NoCar F 264.C4), Vol. 19 Issue 11, November 2014,
p39-46, por
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28875
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Charlotte Native and sportswriter Ron Green Jr. reflects on the grow3th of Charlotte as a sports town. Green discusses the lack of sports in the area when he was a child in the 1960s besides the occasional golf tournament which would come to town. Green discusses the city’s baseball team, the Charlotte Hornets, the Carolina Cougars of the American Basketball Association, Charlotte’s World Football League team that arrived in the 1970s, the Charlotte Motor Speedway, and the major sports events up to the present day. The history sports in Charlotte, the city’s atmosphere, and a timeline of major sporting events in the city are all detailed.
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30575
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Pam Howze lost her parents at a young age and moved across the country, only to return to Charlotte, and reconnected with an old friend who she eventually married. Nearly fifty years after losing her father, he was discovered in a photograph displayed at a charlotte trolley stop, by her husband.
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Charlotte Magazine
(NoCar F 264.C4), Vol. 21 Issue 9, September 2016,
p31-33, por
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30580
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Chief, the bull elephant of the John Robinson Circus, crushed his handler and wend on a rampage in the streets of Charlotte, NC. Plagued with bouts of testosterone driven madness, Chief was sent to live at Cincinnati Zoological Gardens. A decade later, chief killed two more trainers and was executed and served in a Cincinnati hotel restaurant.
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