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African Americans -- Civil rights -- North Carolina

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 20 Collections and/or Records:

Kelly Alexander, Sr. papers concerning the NAACP

 Collection
Identifier: MS0508
Abstract Papers documenting the activities of the NAACP, with an emphasis on the work and correspondence of Kelly Alexander, Sr. and his sons Kelly Alexander, Jr. and Alfred Alexander. Includes papers from the National Board, the North Carolina chapter and the Charlotte chapter. Contains minutes, correspondence, reports, speeches, press releases, membership records, photographs, and memorabilia. Topics covered include school segregation, housing and employment discrimination and the Charlotte Area...
Dates: 1911 - 1997

Briefs

 Digital Record
Identifier: chamjul-ms0085-05

Julius L. Chambers papers

 Collection
Identifier: MS0085
Abstract Julius Chambers was an African-American civil rights attorney. The collection consists of files related to his firm's representation of Darius and Vera Swann and other plaintiffs in the landmark case, Swann v. Charlotte-Mecklenburg Board of Education, in which the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that federal courts were constitutionally authorized to exercise broad powers to oversee and produce solutions to achieve school integration. Collection also includes...
Dates: 1902 - 1989; 1965 - 1975

Era before Brown vs. Board of Education oral history collection

 Collection
Identifier: OH-BB
Abstract

The interviews focus on the educational experiences of members of the African American community of Charlotte during the era of segregation. Many interviewees also discuss how things changed once segregation ended and their children’s school experiences.

Dates: 2004 - 2005

Benjamin S. Horack papers

 Collection
Identifier: MS0042
Abstract Papers of a Charlotte attorney relating to his defense of the Charlotte-Mecklenburg Board of Education in the landmark case, Swann v. Charlotte-Mecklenburg Board of Education, in which the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that federal courts were constitutionally authorized to exercise broad powers to oversee and produce solutions to achieve school integration, which could include using student quotas as a starting point, and developing new attendance zones and busing policies to achieve more...
Dates: 1918 - 1984; 1968 - 1971

Maps

 Digital Record
Identifier: chamjul-ms0085-08

Charles A. McLean papers

 Collection
Identifier: MS0250
Abstract

Collection contains the papers of Charles A. McLean, primarily during his work as an officer of the North Carolina NAACP. Other papers were produced as a result of his business activities or by his family.

Dates: 1930-1982

Robert Smith research collection concerning Griggs v. Duke Power

 Collection
Identifier: MS0594
Abstract

Collection consists of research materials compiled by Dr. Robert Samuel Smith for his 2008 book, Race, Labor, and Civil Rights: Griggs v. Duke Power and the Struggle for Equal Employment Opportunity.

Dates: Majority of material found within 1968-1979, 2004-2005

Joseph Samuel Nathaniel Tross papers

 Collection
Identifier: MS0373
Abstract

Papers, photographs, newspaper clippings, radio broadcast transcripts and sound recordings of Dr. Joseph Samuel Nathaniel Tross, a minister in the AME Zion Church, editor of the Charlotte Post, and civil rights leader in Charlotte, NC from the 1930s until his death in 1971.

Dates: 1927 - 1971

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