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October 19, 1993 Students and teachers work together at Gethsemane's education center. (Alita Sharp, Kim Little, Shakina Johnson and Adelaid Hunt)
This collection of photographs shows student life in West Charlotte High School from its days as a segregated institution to the 1990s.
possibly African-American Linda Blackwelder near the west side of the Charlotte-Douglas airport
The plot was once owned by H. C. Dwelle and his family. There were 17 graves that were in a wooded area, which is now the site of Theater Charlotte. The graves were relocated in 1941 to an unnamed downtown cemetery. An African-American mortician named Grier performed the relocation.
This cemetery may have been called Roseville at one time. It may also have some unmarked graves. A long time resident and local historian of Matthews thinks this may have been the cemetery for an African American church that was near Charles St. in Matthews.
An article in The Daily Charlotte Observer says that a four year old African-American child's body had been dug up, and several bodies had been buried there recently. Location is "100 yards north of the bridge over Sugar Creek" near Villa Heights.
This cemetery was near an early Mecklenburg County poor house. Some researchers believe the dead were victims of the Charlotte small pox epidemic in 1896. ON 4/16/1954, 28 African-Americans remains were moved by the Board of School Commissioners from this cemetery to Sec.
It most likely is the burial site of African-Americans, who were members of a church and/or a fraternal organization. Early members may have been associated with the Flint Hill Baptist Church and left to start their own church after the Civil War.
This cemetery is owned by the City of Charlotte and was originally designated for African-Americans. In a 1893 report from the Good Samaritan Hospital, some of the patients who died that year were buried in Pinewood in the Hospital lot at the expense of the hospital.
This cemetery is owned by the City of Charlotte and is the largest cemetery in the county. It was organized in 1851. Section K was divided by 3 early churches-First Presbyterian, Second Presbyterian and Brevard St. Methodist. Originally, the cemetery was for whites only.
Many of Charlotte's African-American families have lived in the Beatties Ford Road area for decades.
Many of Charlotte's African-American families have lived in the Beatties Ford Road area for decades.
Building regional libraries required a patron in the community, a person or institution whose support made possible a bigger, more fully equipped building than the county could