Fact Friday
Fact Friday 275 - Enderly Park
Happy Friday! According to research conducted by UNC Charlotte’s Charlotte Action Research Project (CHARP), the Enderly Park community was a white, blue-collar, middle class throughout much of the twentieth-century...
Fact Friday 275 - Enderly Park
Happy Friday! According to research conducted by UNC Charlotte’s Charlotte Action Research Project (CHARP), the Enderly Park community was a white, blue-collar, middle class throughout much of the twentieth-century...
Fact Friday 274 - Derita
Happy Friday! Derita lies six miles north of uptown, close to UNC Charlotte. The community began as a rural farming village and central trade post for farmers throughout Mecklenburg....
Fact Friday 274 - Derita
Happy Friday! Derita lies six miles north of uptown, close to UNC Charlotte. The community began as a rural farming village and central trade post for farmers throughout Mecklenburg....
Fact Friday 273 - Washington Heights
Happy Friday! In the early twentieth century, districts such as Dilworth and Elizabeth were booming as suburbs as the city expanded, but they were kept racially segregated by “race clauses”....
Fact Friday 273 - Washington Heights
Happy Friday! In the early twentieth century, districts such as Dilworth and Elizabeth were booming as suburbs as the city expanded, but they were kept racially segregated by “race clauses”....
Fact Friday 272 - Another Look at Historic Cher...
Happy Friday! Cherry remains one of Charlotte’s oldest surviving African-American neighborhoods, located near the Myers Park suburb. According to local historian Dr. Thomas W. Hanchett, the neighborhood’s development was quite...
Fact Friday 272 - Another Look at Historic Cher...
Happy Friday! Cherry remains one of Charlotte’s oldest surviving African-American neighborhoods, located near the Myers Park suburb. According to local historian Dr. Thomas W. Hanchett, the neighborhood’s development was quite...
Fact Friday 271 - Brooklyn's Urban Renewal
Happy Friday! The Brooklyn community lay in what is now Second Ward, an area of Charlotte that was geographically lower than the other four wards, and for sewage and...
Fact Friday 271 - Brooklyn's Urban Renewal
Happy Friday! The Brooklyn community lay in what is now Second Ward, an area of Charlotte that was geographically lower than the other four wards, and for sewage and...
Fact Friday 270 - Historic Grier Heights (aka G...
Happy Friday! Grier Heights’ identity as a black community runs all the way back to the 1890s, when former slave Sam Billings bought 100 acres of land in the area —...
Fact Friday 270 - Historic Grier Heights (aka G...
Happy Friday! Grier Heights’ identity as a black community runs all the way back to the 1890s, when former slave Sam Billings bought 100 acres of land in the area —...