Hanchett argues that racial and economic segregation are not age-old givens, but products of a decades-long process. Well after the Civil War, Charlotte's whites and blacks, workers and business owners, all lived intermingled in a "salt-and-pepper" pattern. The rise of large manufacturing enterprises in the 1880s and 1890s brought social and political upheaval, however, and the city began to sort out into a "checkerboard" of distinct neighborhoods segregated by both race and class. When urban renewal and other federal funds became available in the mid-twentieth century, local leaders used the money to complete the sorting out process, creating a "sector" pattern in which wealthy whites increasingly lived on one side of town and blacks on the other.
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One of the largest and fastest-growing cities in the South, Charlotte, North Carolina, came of age in the New South decades of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, transforming itself from a rural courthouse village to the trading and financial hub of America's premier textile manufacturing region. In this book, Thomas Hanchett traces the city's spatial evolution over the course of a century, exploring the interplay of national trends and local forces that shaped Charlotte, and, by extension, other New South urban centers.
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[A] southern story of the emergence of mercantile, industrial, banking, and real estate entrepreneurs and how they shaped a city.
Southern Cultures
Not only illuminates Charlotte's contested past but also makes a significant contribution to American urban history.
Journal of American History
This excellent study gives the city the attention it deserves.
American Historical Review
[This book] should be a touchstone for comparative analysis in both southern and urban history.
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An excellent case study of long-term urban growth.
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Traces the spatial evolution of Charlotte, NC, from 1875 to 1975 exploring the national and local influences that brought about racial and economic segregation.
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PRIOR TO ITS New South industrial awakening, Charlotte functioned quietly for more than a century as an agricultural trading village, the courthouse town for Mecklenburg County. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
black main street, cotton wharf, textile leaders, civic survey, rental quarters, rim villages, deed book, mill cottages, provision district, preindustrial city, southeast sector, cotton compress, suburban architecture Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Myers Park, North Carolina, African American, First Ward, Civil War, United States, North Charlotte, Second Ward, Highland Park, John Nolen, Mecklenburg County, New South, Washington Heights, Queen City, South Carolina, Charlotte Observer, Piedmont Park, South Tryon Street, George Stephens, Jim Crow, North Tryon Street, Third Ward, West Trade Street, East Trade Street, Edward Dilworth Latta New!
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PRIOR TO ITS New South industrial awakening, Charlotte functioned quietly for more than a century as an agricultural trading village, the courthouse town for Mecklenburg County. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
black main street, cotton wharf, textile leaders, civic survey, rental quarters, rim villages, deed book, mill cottages, provision district, preindustrial city, southeast sector, cotton compress, suburban architecture Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Myers Park, North Carolina, African American, First Ward, Civil War, United States, North Charlotte, Second Ward, Highland Park, John Nolen, Mecklenburg County, New South, Washington Heights, Queen City, South Carolina, Charlotte Observer, Piedmont Park, South Tryon Street, George Stephens, Jim Crow, North Tryon Street, Third Ward, West Trade Street, East Trade Street, Edward Dilworth Latta New!
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- The City in Southern History: The Growth of Urban Civilization in the South by Blaine A. Brownell on 4 pages
- The Strange Career of Jim Crow by C. Vann Woodward in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
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- Historical Roots of the Urban Crisis: African Americans in the Industrial City, 1900-1950 (Crosscurrents in African American History) by Henry Louis Taylor Jr. in Front Matter, page 50, and page 166
- Learning to Win: Sports, Education, and Social Change in Twentieth-Century North Carolina by Pamela Grundy in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- When Did Southern Segregation Begin? (Historians at Work) by John David Smith on page 39, and page 40
- A Companion to the American South (Blackwell Companions to American History) by John B. Boles on page 484, and page 491
- Civil Rights Unionism: Tobacco Workers and the Struggle for Democracy in the Mid-Twentieth-Century South by Robert Rodgers Korstad in Back Matter
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