Fact Friday

Fact Friday 137 - Turning Points in Charlotte During the Civil Rights Era (Pt. 2)

Fact Friday 137 - Turning Points in Charlotte D...

Happy Friday! In Black America Series: Charlotte, North Carolina, authors Vermelle Diamond Ely, Grace Hoey Drain, and Amy Rogers have compiled an intriguing pictorial history, which includes images and keepsakes from both...

Fact Friday 137 - Turning Points in Charlotte D...

Happy Friday! In Black America Series: Charlotte, North Carolina, authors Vermelle Diamond Ely, Grace Hoey Drain, and Amy Rogers have compiled an intriguing pictorial history, which includes images and keepsakes from both...

Fact Friday 136 - Turning Points in Charlotte During the Civil Rights Era (Pt. 1)

Fact Friday 136 - Turning Points in Charlotte D...

Happy Friday! In Black America Series: Charlotte, North Carolina, authors Vermelle Diamond Ely, Grace Hoey Drain, and Amy Rogers have compiled an intriguing pictorial history, which includes images and keepsakes from both...

Fact Friday 136 - Turning Points in Charlotte D...

Happy Friday! In Black America Series: Charlotte, North Carolina, authors Vermelle Diamond Ely, Grace Hoey Drain, and Amy Rogers have compiled an intriguing pictorial history, which includes images and keepsakes from both...

Fact Friday 135 - Swann v. Charlotte Mecklenburg Board of Education

Fact Friday 135 - Swann v. Charlotte Mecklenbur...

Happy Friday! Charlotte was the impetus behind a Supreme Court case that would impact how school desegregation could be implemented nationally. In 1954 the Supreme Court ruled in Brown v....

Fact Friday 135 - Swann v. Charlotte Mecklenbur...

Happy Friday! Charlotte was the impetus behind a Supreme Court case that would impact how school desegregation could be implemented nationally. In 1954 the Supreme Court ruled in Brown v....

Fact Friday 134 - Second Street / Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard

Fact Friday 134 - Second Street / Martin Luther...

Happy Friday!   For many black Charlotteans, stepping onto Second Street in the 1940s and 1950s during segregation probably  seemed like a little slice of freedom. At the heart of...

Fact Friday 134 - Second Street / Martin Luther...

Happy Friday!   For many black Charlotteans, stepping onto Second Street in the 1940s and 1950s during segregation probably  seemed like a little slice of freedom. At the heart of...

Fact Friday 133 - U.S. Mint Building and Charles R. Jonas Federal Building

Fact Friday 133 - U.S. Mint Building and Charle...

Happy Friday! The U.S. Mint Building, on the corner in Charlotte that has always been operated by the federal government.  In 1799 farmer John Reed found a seventeen-pound gold nugget...

Fact Friday 133 - U.S. Mint Building and Charle...

Happy Friday! The U.S. Mint Building, on the corner in Charlotte that has always been operated by the federal government.  In 1799 farmer John Reed found a seventeen-pound gold nugget...

Fact Friday 132 - Old Settler's Cemetery

Fact Friday 132 - Old Settler's Cemetery

Happy Friday!   Old Settler's Cemetery: The final resting place of generals, soldiers, businessmen and farmers. I highlighted Old Settler's Cemetery in Fact Friday 19, but this will be more...

Fact Friday 132 - Old Settler's Cemetery

Happy Friday!   Old Settler's Cemetery: The final resting place of generals, soldiers, businessmen and farmers. I highlighted Old Settler's Cemetery in Fact Friday 19, but this will be more...