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Image Source: Charlotte High School 1920
Elizabeth College was an all girl's school located at the intersection of Elizabeth Avenue and Hawthorne Lane. Physical Description: 8x10 glossy Publisher: Unknown
1968 - Jackie Harrison graduates from predominantly white Harding High School.
March 21, 1991 - Stephanie Counts is named North Carolina Principal of the Year.
The history of the University of North Carolina at Charlotte began in the basement of Central High School in 1946 as an extension program of the UNC system. Three years later when UNC tried to close the school, Bonnie Cone led the good fight to keep it open.
Alice (Babe) Wyche, Principal of Myers Street School, and her cousin, Ethel Wyche. Physical Description: 5x7 and Framed version for exhibit. Publisher: Unknown
School children.
Physical Description: 35 mm. Negative
Publisher: Public Library of Charlotte & Mecklenburg County
Founded in 1912, today the school is known as Queens University.
Physical Description: 3 x 5 postcard
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<p>North Carolina received 1.5 million in surplus U.S. government funds. This money would be used to start the state's public school fund.
April 23, 1969 - There is a new judge presiding over the Swann case, the legal action that tests whether integration can actually work in schools. Judge James B.
1973 - Leroy "Pop" Miller becomes the first black principal at formerly all-white East Mecklenburg High School. He becomes as beloved at East Mecklenburg High School as he was at West Charlotte.
After the Civil War, there was a need for schools for blacks throughout the south. During a 1867 meeting of the Presbyterian Church, a mission school for blacks was established on land donated by Colonel W.R. Myers.
The city leaders worked with the owners of the Louise and the Chadwick Hoskins Mills to create a vocational school to provide day and evening classes in woodworking, home economics, bookkeeping and other practical subjects.
The Queen City Classic football game becomes an annual contest between the two black high schools, Second Ward and West Charlotte.
May 6, 1991 - West Charlotte High School is featured in the Wall Street Journal.
The veterans, men and women who fought in World War II, are returning home. To educate them, teacher Bonnie Cone pushes for new schools. Charlotte College is for whites, and holds classes at the old Central High School. Carver College is for blacks.