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Fans fill the stands at Memorial Stadium. The first Shrine Bowl game pits the best high school players from North and South Carolina against each other in what will become an annual football rivalry.
Many Charlotte-Mecklenburg students must endure long bus rides to faraway schools. Even people who support busing to achieve integration are frustrated. Slowly, blacks and whites begin to talk to each other constructively and ask questions. What does or doesn't work?
November 22, 1963 - Bullets hit the car carrying John F. Kennedy in Dallas, Texas and kill America's 35th president. Only 46 years old, Kennedy had been a World War II Navy hero and a U.S. senator.
July 11, 1975 - It has been seven long years since Julius Chambers first filed the legal case, Swann vs. the Charlotte-Mecklenburg Board of Education. Integration has worked for one year. Judge James B.
In 1992, there were 11 employers in Mecklenburg County that had each hired 2,500 to 10,000 employees.
September 14, 1992 - Somebody had to be first, Gus Roberts said. Now, the man who was one of Charlotte's desegregation pioneers has died. In 1957, he was the first black student at all-white Central High.
January, 1971 - The auto repair shop of the father of civil rights attorney Julius Chambers is burned down.
November 1990 - Isaiah Tidwell becomes Regional Vice-President of Wachovia.
Sometime in the month of June, 1905, the Brevard Street Library opens to serve black residents. In these early days of the 20th century, segregation is the law. Black and white people attend separate schools and churches. They ride in separate sections of buses.
The war has ended but unrest at home is just beginning. Visit this decade marked by the entrance of rock 'n roll and desegregation. Read about the infamous US Supreme Court Case, Brown vs. Topeka Board of Education, which outlaws school segregation by race.
May 31, 1963 - A young, energetic black preacher named Martin Luther King, Jr. speaks in Charlotte to a gathering of six black high schools. Just 10 days earlier, Johnson C. Smith University students marched downtown to protest segregation, laws that separate people according to race.
May 18, 1959 - Wilbert Harrison's "Kansas City" is number one on the pop charts.
August 30, 1967 - Marshall is appointed to the U.S. Supreme Court.
1976 - Reverend Burke documents urban renewal.
August 24, 1990 - 15-year-old Marcus Grier, Jr. dies from a gunshot wound.
The Charlotte Observer 5/20/1941 p.6
Banks, Courthouse, City Hall Close Today
Will Observe Independence Day----City Schools, Federal Building and All Other Business Establishments Will Continue as Usual.
July 5, 1970 - Rev. Colemon Kerry, Jr., leads the dedication of the new Friendship Baptist Church on Beatties Ford Road.