Kelly M. Alexander Papers
Papers relating to Alexander's presidency of the Charlotte and North Carolina branches of the NAACP and to his membership on and chairmanship of the national board of directors.

American New Left Collection
Newspapers and other printed items published by various radical groups based in the Midwest. Material addresses the Vietnam War; Latin America; civil rights, racism, and black power; economics and labor; and women's liberation.

J.A. Bisaner slave bill-of-sale, 1865
A bill of sale for a slave named Loney, bought from J. A. Bisaner of Lincolnton, N.C.; by N. A. Wingate of Charlotte, N.C., dated January 2, 1865, for $6000.00.

Stanford R. Brookshire Papers
Official papers of Charlotte's first four-term mayor which document almost a decade of change, particularly in regard to desegration, and reflecting the increasing role of the federal government in addressing urban problems.

Carver College Records
Materials relating to Carver College, which was operated by the Charlotte City School Board (1949-58) and the Charlotte Community College System (1958-63) as the black counterpart of predominately white Charlotte College.

Julius Levonne Chambers Papers
Files of a Charlotte attorney and his representation of the plaintiffs in the landmark case, Swann v. Charlotte-Mecklenburg Board of Education, which established busing as a constitutional method for desegregating schools.

Charlotte-Mecklenburg Community Relations Committee Records
Records of a committee established in 1961 by the mayor of Charlotte to help ease racial tensions and to assist in the gradual desegregation of public facilities.

William Arthur Cooper Papers
Papers of an African-American artist and minister of Charlotte's Clinton Metropolitan AME Zion Church during the 1930s, primarily relating to his attempts to gain recognition as an artist and arranging lectures and exhibits.

Harvey B. Gantt Papers
Gantt's official files as the first African American mayor of Charlotte. Includes correspondence, reports, and speeches regarding the controversy over a site for the new coliseum, Charlotte's bid for an NBA franchise, and traffic congestion.

Elmer Henry Garringer Papers
Papers of a Charlotte educator and state legislator. Contains correspondence, photographs, awards, and material regarding Charlotte-Mecklenburg schools, particularly Central and West Charlotte high schools.

Harry Golden Papers [Part One]
Papers of a journalist, best-selling author, and civil libertarian. Consists chiefly of material generated as editor of the Charlotte-based Carolina Israelite but also documenting his involvement in the civil rights movement.

Joseph W. Grier Papers
Papers relating to the attempt to integrate city-owned Bonnie Brae Golf Course (1951) and to Richardson Preyer's unsuccessful North Carolina gubernatorial campaign (1964).

Eunice F. Hargett Collection
Interviews with three African-American women about their lives growing up in Cove City, North Carolina.

Reginald A. Hawkins Papers
Papers of a Charlotte dentist who was the first African-American to run for governor of North Carolina. Documents his involvement in the desegregation of schools and public accomodations, and voter registration projects.

Benjamin S. Horack Papers
Papers of a Charlotte attorney who represented the defendents in Swann v. Charlotte-Mecklenburg Board of Education, in which the U.S. Supreme Court ruled on the constitutionalilty of busing to integrate public schools.

Irwin Family Papers, 1775 - 1931
The Irwin Family Papers (Mss 359) is a small manuscript collection, consisting mostly of letters, bills of sale (including bills of sale for slaves), real estate deeds and genealogical notes of a family of Charlotte, North Carolina, primarily during the nineteenth century.

Knox Family Papers, 1762 - 1945
The Knox family papers is a small collection generated by the Knox and related families (including the Dunlap, Lowrie, and Porter families) documenting much of their daily activities, mostly from the mid nineteenth to early twentieth centuries. Most of the papers in this collection are letters to and from family members, promissory notes that document short-term loans between friends and family members, papers concerning the settlement of estates of deceased people, the ownership of slaves and events during the Civil War.

Mary Norton Kratt, 1886 - 2000
Items collected by a Charlotte historian and author, including manuscripts and other material relating to Kratt's published writings, and routine business recordsof the Charlotte Post, a weekly African-American newspaper.

Leary Love Family Collection, ca. 1875 - 1996
The Leary Love Collection includes primarily the papers of George Leary Love and his mother, Rose Leary Love. Rose Love was an elementary school teacher in the Charlotte, NC public school system for nearly forty years. In addition to her teaching career, she also wrote poetry, music, and short stories for children. George Leary Love had a notable career as a photographer, a vocation that he used, in part, to fulfill his interest in environmental issues. In the early 1960s, he was involved with the Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee as a field photographer. By the late 1960s he moved to Sao Paulo, Brazil, where he was employed with the Sao Paulo Light and Power Company. In addition to his work for ElectroPaulo, Love spent many years photographing the Amazon River Valley and the Brazilian rain forest.

R. Stewart Lillard papers, 1771 - 2000
Papers relating to Lillard's research on author Ralph Ellison. Includes correspondence with Ellison and others, notes, articles, and information on Ellison's South Carolina ancestors.

McCoy Family Papers, 1796 - 2001
This collection contains papers and photographs generated by the McCoy and related families in Mecklenburg County from 1796 to 2001. Most of the papers were produced by Albert McCoy, who lived from 1843 to 1925. Other papers were generated by some of his children. Other families related to the McCoys were the Gluyas, Houston, and Nisbet families. Because the McCoys owned slaves, some of the files in this collection concern a slave cemetery and traditional stories told by slaves that the McCoy family owned.

Jimmy McKee Collection, 1944 - 1984
Papers of the founder of the Excelsior Club, the most influential social club for African Americans in Charlotte, NC, from its establishment in 1944 to its sale forty years later. Includes photographs, advertising material, programs, and booklets relating to “Genial Gene” Potts, a radio personality and disc jockey for WGIV.

C. A. McKnight Papers
Papers of an editor of The Charlotte News and The Charlotte Observer, including material about his association with the Southern Education Reporting Service.

Charles A. McLean Papers, 1930 - 1982
Collection 250 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.

North Carolina Fund Records
Selected records of an anti-poverty demonstration project, including information on specific projects in Mecklenburg, Iredell, Rowan, Stanly, and Union counties.

North Carolina School Desegregation Papers, 1955 - 1956
The North Carolina School Desegregation Papers (mss 413), is a small collection (one folder) of mostly published material, generated by the faction that was opposed to the racial desegregation of public schools. The source of this material is not known.

J. Walter Potts Family, 1776 - 1942
The collection contains a small quantity of papers, and includes materials from John Neely in 1776, the Grier family (a.k.a. Greer family), the Hunter family and the J. Walter Potts family; all from the Steele Creek Township in southwestern Mecklenburg County, NC. The papers include documentation concerning real estate transactions, receipts for taxes and consumer goods, promissory notes, letters to and from various family members, and documentation concerning slaves.

Margaret Whitton Ray Papers
Papers of the chair of the Citizens Advisory Group, formed in 1973 to develop pupil assignment guidelines for desegregating Charlotte-Mecklenburg schools.

T. J. Reddy Papers
Papers of a Charlotte artist, poet, civil rights activist, highlighting his role as one of the Charlotte 3, his interest in the civil rights movement, and the activities of the North Carolina Political Prisoners' Committee.

Addison H. Reese Papers
Includes material concerning the case of Wynn v. Charlotte Community College System involving the construction of separate predominately white and predominately black campuses (1958-61).

Joseph Samuel Nathaniel Tross Collection, 1927 - 1971
Papers, photographs, newspaper clippings, and radio broadcast transcripts 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.

Robert Franklin Williams Collection
Declassified documents from Federal Bureau of Investigation fil on Robert Franklin Williams, a civil rights leader and black revolutionary from Monroe, North Carolina. All records in the collection were acquired through the FBI under the Freedom of Information Act (United States Code, Section 552).