Keywords:

African American Families; African American Neighborhoods; African Americans; African Americans And Libraries; Central High School (Charlotte, N.C.); Charlotte Mecklenburg Schools; Civil Rights; Counts Scoggins, Dorothy, 1942; Discrimination; Discrimination In Education; Justice, Girvaud, 1944; Myers Street School (Charlotte, N.C.); Piedmont Junior High School (Charlotte, N.C.); Racism In Education; Roberts, Gus, 1941 1992; School Integration; Segregation; Segregation In Education; Soap Box Derbies; Urban Renewal

Cummings, Humphrey (interviewee)

Keywords:

African American College Students; African American Neighborhoods; African Americans; Black Panther Party; Black Student Union (University Of North Carolina At Charlotte); Chavis, Ben, 1948; Civil Rights; Civil Rights Demonstrations; Civil Rights Movements; Cone, Bonnie, 1907 2003; Cummings, Humphrey; Political Activity; Race Relations; Reddy, T. J., 1945; School Integration; Student Movements; Universities; University Of North Carolina At Charlotte; Urban Renewal

Keywords:

African American Business Enterprises; African American Churches; African American Families; African American Neighborhoods; African American Schools; African Americans; Friendship Missionary Baptist Church (Charlotte, N.C.); Religion; School Sports; Second Ward High School (Charlotte, N.C.); Segregation; Urban Renewal; Yancey, James A., 1932; Yancey, Ozener S. (Ozener Sloan), 1924 2010

Keywords:

African American Churches; African American Neighborhoods; African American Schools; African Americans; Friendship Missionary Baptist Church (Charlotte, N.C.); James, Ida M., 1934; Religion; Second Ward High School (Charlotte, N.C.); Segregation; Urban Renewal; Yancey, James A., 1932; Yancey, Ozener S. (Ozener Sloan), 1924 2010

Keywords:

African American Families; African American Neighborhoods; African Americans; Brookshire, Stanford R., 1905 1990; Bryant, Don, 1923 2013; Charlotte (N.C.). City Council; Charlotte Redevelopment Commission; City Council Members; City Planning; Eminent Domain; Hawkins, Reginald Armistice, 1923 2007; Sawyer, Vernon Lupton, 1922; Segregation; Thrower, John Hampton, 1928 2013; Urban Redevelopment; Urban Renewal; Veeder, Bill (William), 1923 Or 1924 2011; World War (1939 1945)

Keywords:

African American Business Enterprises; African American Families; African American Neighborhoods; African Americans; Alexander Funeral Home (Charlotte, N.C.); Alexander, Kelly M., Jr., 1948; Cities And Towns; Family Owned Business Enterprises; Funeral Homes; Growth; Segregation; United House Of Prayer For All People; Urban Renewal

Keywords:

African American Business Enterprises; African American Neighborhoods; African Americans; African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church; Cities And Towns; City And Town Life; Country Life; Funeral Service; Growth; Long, Lem, Jr., 1921; Race Relations; Segregation; United House Of Prayer For All People; Urban Renewal

Keywords:

African American Neighborhoods; African American Police; African American Schools; African Americans; Amusements; City And Town Life; Grace, Daddy, 1882? 1960; Orr, Mae, 1929; Religion; Ross, James, Approximately 1904 1958; Second Ward High School (Charlotte, N.C.); Segregation; United House Of Prayer For All People; Urban Renewal; Violence; West Charlotte High School (Charlotte, N.C.)

Keywords:

African American Neighborhoods; African Americans; African Americans And Libraries; Alexander, Kelly M; Alexander, Margaret G. A., 1924; Brevard Street Library (Charlotte, N.C.); Cities And Towns; Civil Rights; Civil Rights Movements; Growth; National Association For The Advancement Of Colored People; Racism; Segregation; Urban Renewal

Keywords:

African American Neighborhoods; African Americans; J. M. Alexander Junior High School (Charlotte, N.C.); Johnson C. Smith University; Middle Class African Americans; Race Relations; Racism In Education; Saunders, Margaret Johnson, 1933; School Integration; Segregation In Education; Social Values; Teachers; Urban Renewal; West Charlotte High School (Charlotte, N.C.)

Keywords:

African Americans; Alleys; Automobiles; Children; City Planning Commission; Continental Baking Corporation (New York, N.Y.); Flour City Box & Barrel Company (Minneapolis, Minn.); Gateway District (Minneapolis, Minn.); Houses; Housing; Junk Trade; Lumber Yards; Minneapolis (Minn.); Minneapolis Auditorium And Convention Hall; Mississippi River; Northwestern Box Company (Minneapolis, Minn.); Row Houses; Skid Row; Slums; Streets; Trucks; Umbra Search African American History; Urban Renewal

Keywords:

African American Greek Letter Societies; African American Neighborhoods; African Americans; Bates, Miriam, 1926; Civil Rights; Civil Rights Movements; Delta Sigma Theta Sorority; Education; First United Presbyterian Church (Charlotte, N.C.); Hampton University (Va.); Johnson C. Smith University; Presbyterian Church; Segregation; Segregation In Education; Urban Renewal; West Charlotte High School (Charlotte, N.C.)

Keywords:

African American Churches; African American Neighborhoods; African American Schools; African Americans; Cities And Towns; Discrimination; Discrimination In Public Accommodations; Elder, Thereasea D. Clark (Thereasea Delerine Clark), 1927; Growth; Health Facilities; Ku Klux Klan (1915); Race Relations; Second Ward High School (Charlotte, N.C.); Segregation; United House Of Prayer For All People; United States; United States. Cadet Nurse Corps; Urban Renewal

Ely, Vermelle Diamond (interviewee)

Keywords:

African American Business Enterprises; African American Churches; African American Families; African American Neighborhoods; African Americans; Amusements; City And Town Life; Davis, Calvin C., 1925 2007; Davis, Naomi A; Davis, Price, 1920; Education; Ely, Vermelle Diamond; Hunter, Wright, 1931 2007; Manners And Customs; School Sports; Second Ward High School (Charlotte, N.C.); Segregation; Social Aspects; United House Of Prayer For All People; Urban Renewal

Ely, Vermelle Diamond (interviewee)

Keywords:

African American Neighborhoods; African Americans; Blacks; Charlotte Mecklenburg Schools; Davis, Price, 1920; Ely, Vermelle Diamond; Funches, John, 1951; Police Brutality; Race Identity; Race Relations; School Integration; Second Ward High School (Charlotte, N.C.); Second Ward High School Alumni Foundation (Charlotte, N.C.); Segregation; Segregation In Education; Social Aspects; Social Life And Customs; Students; Teachers; Urban Renewal

Keywords:

African American Churches; African American Families; African American Neighborhoods; African Americans; Ebenezer Baptist Church (Charlotte, N.C.); Education; Grace, Daddy, 1882? 1960; Herron, Vernon M. (Vernon Mack), 1928; Housing; Myers Street School (Charlotte, N.C.); National Association For The Advancement Of Colored People; Religion; Second Ward High School (Charlotte, N.C.); Segregation; United House Of Prayer For All People; Urban Renewal

Keywords:

African Americans; Black Panther Party; Carver College (Charlotte, N.C.); Civil Rights; Civil Rights Movements; Civil Rights Workers; Discrimination; Dunlap, William Samuel, 1940; High School Athletes; J.H. Gunn High School (Charlotte, N.C.); Police Brutality; Race Discrimination; Second Ward High School (Charlotte, N.C.); Urban Renewal

Keywords:

African American Families; African American Neighborhoods; African American School Children; African Americans; Brooklyn Presbyterian Church (Charlotte, N.C.); Education; Harris, William Ussery, 1936; Manners And Customs; Myers Street School (Charlotte, N.C.); Second Ward High School (Charlotte, N.C.); Segregation; Segregation In Education; United House Of Prayer For All People; Urban Renewal

Keywords:

Activity Programs; Administration; African Americans; Business/Industry/Manufacturing; Chicago; Chicago (Ill.); Chicago Committee On Urban Opportunity; Chicago Public Library; Correspondence; Domestic/Community/Social Life; Economic Assistance, Domestic; Economic Conditions; Government; Government & Politics; Illinois; Insurance; Law And Legislation; Libraries; Libraries And Community; Libraries And Older People; Library Fines; Library Materials; Library Outreach Programs; Library Users; Management; Officials And Employees; Public Libraries; Public Welfare; Social Conditions; United States; United States. Economic Opportunity Act Of 1964; Urban Progress Center (Chicago, Ill.); Urban Renewal

Keywords:

African American Business Enterprises; African American Churches; African American Families; African American Neighborhoods; African American Schools; African Americans; African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church; Crawford, Barbara Davis, 1943; Dwellings; Education; Fires And Fire Prevention; Greater Bethel A.M.E. Church (Charlotte, N.C.); Grier Funeral Service (Charlotte, N.C.); Myers Street School (Charlotte, N.C.); School Sports; Second Ward High School (Charlotte, N.C.); Segregation; Social Aspects; Teacher Student Relationships; Urban Renewal