Kelly M. Alexander Papers
Papers documenting Alexander's service with the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, including the Charlotte branch, his presidency of the North Carolina State Conference of Branches, and his membership on and chairing of the national board of directors.

Lynne Allred Papers
Research on the textile workers strike in Gastonia in 1929. Includes interviews with LeGette Blythe (who covered the strike as a reporter for the Charlotte Observer) and Ralph Glenn (a high school teacher in Gastonia when the strike occurred).

American New Left Collection
Pamphlets, broadsides, newspapers, and other printed items published by various radical groups based largely in the Midwest. Material addresses such issues as the Vietnam War, civil rights, racism, and women's liberation.

Hugh Joseph Beard Papers
Papers of a Charlotte lawyer, gay conservative activist, and attorney in the U.S. Dept. of Justice's Office of Civil Rights during the Reagan administration. Includes correspondence and case files documenting conservative political and religious groups.

Stanford R. Brookshire Papers
Chiefly official papers of Charlotte's first four-term mayor. Comprised of subject files, correspondence, and speeches documenting almost a decade of change, particularly in regard to desegregation and the increasing role of the federal government in addressing urban problems.

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, that established busing as a constitutional method for desegregating schools.

Charlotte-Mecklenburg Community Relations Committee Records
Records of a committee established in 1961 to help ease racial tensions and to assist in desegregation of public facilities. Includes correspondence and minutes relating to the committee and its predecessor, the Friendly Relations Committee.

Charlotte-Mecklenburg Urban League Records
Records of a non-profit agency organized in 1978 to promote economic self-sufficiency among African American families and to seek racial inclusion in Mecklenburg County communities. Contains miscellaneous records for the year 1981 only.

Charlotteans for a Free Southern Africa Records
Records of a local anti-apartheid organization formed in 1985 by residents of Charlotte. Contains correspondence, flyers, programs, meeting and event notices, memoranda, minutes, news clippings, photographs, statements, and publications.

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

Reginald A. Hawkins Papers
Papers of a Charlotte dentist, minister, and civil rights activist, who was the first African-American to run for governor of North Carolina. Consists clippings and correspondence documenting his involvement in the desegregation of schools and public accommodations.

Benjamin S. Horack Papers
Papers of a Charlotte attorney relating to his defense of the Charlotte-Mecklenburg Board of Education in the landmark case, Swann v. Charlotte-Mecklenburg Board of Education, in which the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that busing to achieve racial integration of public schools is constitutional.

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.

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.

Winifred S. Nance Papers
Papers documenting her sex discrimination case against the Union Carbide plant in Charlotte. Consists primarily of legal documents, including motions, briefs, court proceedings, and depositions.

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.

Boyd E. Payton Papers
Material relating to the involvement of a Textile Workers Union of America official in a strike at Harriet-Henderson Mills in Henderson, N.C., his conviction and imprisonment amidst allegations of a state-supported frame-up, and his eventual pardon.

Margaret Whitton Ray Papers
Papers of the chair of the Citizens Advisory Group, formed in 1973 to develop guidelines for desegregating Charlotte-Mecklenburg schools. Includes clippings, correspondence, findings and recommendations, reports, and worksheets.

T. J. Reddy Papers
Papers of a Charlotte artist, poet, and civil rights activist, highlighting his role as one of the Charlotte Three and his interest in the civil rights movement. Consists of correspondence and legal documents concerning his arrest, trial and conviction for arson.

Robert E. Scoggin Papers, 1900 - 2003
Papers of a member and grand dragon of the Ku Klux Klan in South Carolina, primarily from the 1960s to the 1980s. This collection consists primarily of publications of various Klan organizations, but also includes correspondence, newspaper clippings, periodicals, film footage, and personal information.

Frank O. Sherrill, May-July 1963
Collection 405 is a small collection of documentary materials (newspaper clippings and letters) collected by Frank O. Sherrill during the campaign to desegregate public accommodations in Charlotte. Sherrill was the co-founder of the S&W Cafeteria chain, which became the target of African-Americans in the spring of 1963. This collection spans from March through July of 1963 and includes a telegram send by President John F. Kennedy, inviting Sherrill to the White House to attend a conference on racial desegregation.

Alice Lindsay Tate Papers
Personal papers of a Charlotte native who moved to New York City in the 1930s to pursue an operatic career. Includes correspondence with T. J. Reddy and the North Carolina Political Prisoners Committee.

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.

William Waggoner Papers
Papers of a Charlotte attorney relating to his defense of the Charlotte-Mecklenburg Board of Education in the landmark case, Swann v. Charlotte-Mecklenburg Board of Education, in which the U.S. Supreme Court ruled on the constitutionality of busing as a means to integrate public schools.

Robert Franklin Williams Collection
Declassified documents copied from Federal Bureau of Investigation records regarding 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).

Leslie Winner Papers
Papers of a Charlotte attorney relating to her representation of the plantiff in Gingles v. Edmisten, in which the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that the state of North Carolina illegally weakened the voting power of African-Americans in state house elections in Mecklenburg and five other legislative districts.