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Young women posing out doors. Caption reads, `Elizabeth Hopefuls.`Elizabeth College was located on Hawthorne Road. It opened in 1896. This popular school for girls remained in Charlotte until 1915.
Physical Description: Original in scrapbook 35 mm negative
Image of two Elizabeth College students possibly walking near the Square. The caption reads, The Trysting Place.Elizabeth College was located on Hawthorne Road. It opened in 1896. This popular school for girls remained in Charlotte until 1915.
Elizabeth College students posing above the caption Five Little Indians. The was located on Hawthorne Road. It opened in 1896. This popular school for girls remained in Charlotte until 1915.
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Young nurse posing with a hot water bottle. Caption reads, Ready for Business. Elizabeth College was located on Hawthorne Road. It opened in 1896. This popular school for girls remained in Charlotte until 1915.
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Death Details/Burial/Memorial Services: His funeral was held at the Douglas and Sing Chapel on 12-19-1944. Burial was at Elmwood Cemetery, Charlotte, NC.
Age at Death: 19
Image Source: Harding High School Yearbook 1946
Death Details/Burial/Memorial Services: He was lost over Europe and given up for dead. His name is listed on the Honor Roll at St. Peters Episcopal Church in Charlotte.
Age at Death: Unavailable
Image Source: Central High School yearbook-1941
Death Details/Burial/Memorial Services: He was listed as Missing in his school newsletter, The Alumni Review in 10/1944. He was listed on the 1946 YMCA Honor List as killed in service.
Age at Death: Unavailable
Image Source: Charlotte Mecklenburg Library
Dorothy Counts (b. 1942) was the daughter of a Johnson C. Smith University professor.
The 1839 celebration of the Mecklenburg Declaration of Indendence was described in a diary entry
Susan Davis Nye Hutchison Charlotte school teacher
Summer 1961 - Charlotte minister and dentist Reginald Hawkins leads protest.
January 16, 1963 - Harvey Gantt desegregates Clemson College. January 16, 1963
The Community School of the Arts was founded in 1969 by Henry Bridges, who decided to bring together Charlotte's children and the pianos of the First Presbyterian Church.
September 4, 1957 - Today, four brave, young black people will test the new laws against school segregation. As the nation watches, these desegregation pioneers arrive at four of Charlotte's all-white schools.
First known as Biddle Memorial Institute, the school was founded in 1870 on Beatties Ford Road by the Catawba Presbytery. Colonel W.R. Myers donated the land. The school was named for Henry Biddle husband of its financial benefactor, Mary D. Biddle of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
Revolutionary War era Cemetery, northern half of South Tryon and College Street between Martin Luther King Blvd. and 3rd St., Charlotte, NC.This location has no evidence of a former cemetery.
IN HIS History of Mecklenburg County and the City of Charlotte, D. A. Tompkins gives biographical sketches of eighty men who were prominent in Mecklenburg during and shortly after the Revolution. The most frequent phrase in these sketches is, "he was educated at . . .
According to the 1950 Census figures, Charlotte becomes one of the most residentially segregated cities in the US.