Racial History Project Resources and Links
Gracious God, you are the source and summit of all Peace, Mercy and Justice; give us your Spirit so that we might be emboldened to look into our city’s past and recognize harms so deep that they have generational impact; then Lord, strengthen our hearts to meet the demands of justice and peace and join in the work of repair and conciliation with our neighbors so that when future generations wonder what the Kingdom of God looks like, they might say, “Charlotte!”. We pray this in the confidence that you will grant what we ask so long as it accords with your will, in Jesus’ name, through the irresistible power of the Holy Spirit. Amen.
Books:
Greg Jarrell, Our Trespasses: White Churches and the Taking of American Neighborhoods, (Fortress Press, 2024)
Thomas Hanchett, Sorting out the New South City: Race, Class, and Urban Development in Charlotte, 1875-1975 (University of North Carolina Press, 1998, new edition 2020)
Fannie Flono, Thriving in the Shadows: The Black Experience in Charlotte and Mecklenburg County (Novello Festival Press, 2007)
Frye Gaillard, The Dream Long Deferred: The Landmark Struggle for Desegregation in Charlotte, North Carolina (University of South Carolina Press, 3d edition, 2006)
Anna Jean Mayhew, Tomorrow’s Bread (Kensington, 2019)
Articles:
Historic Charlotte Neighborhoods: Brooklyn
https://guides.library.charlotte.edu/c.php?g=621704&p=4626874
Charlotte Urban Renewal
https://qcnerve.com/black-history-of-charlotte-urban-renewal-development/
Swann v. Charlotte-Mecklenburg Board of Education
https://northcarolinahistory.org/encyclopedia/swann-v-charlotte-mecklenburg-board-of-education/
Greenspon Center Report on Systemic Racism in Mecklenburg County Government
https://www.stangreensponcenter.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/SystemicRacismInMecklenburgCountyGovernment.pdf
White Supremacist Historical US Christian Roots
Episcopal Racial Justice and Reconciliation
https://www.episcopalchurch.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/06/BBC-Where-You-Are_2024.pdf
North Carolina Racial Equality Dashboard
https://analytics.nccommerce.com/Racial-Equity/
Podcasts:
https://www.museumofthenewsouth.org/digital/our-new-south-podcast/
Episode 6: Discrimination and Displacement
Episode 8: Brown v. Board and Beyond
App:
https://www.museumofthenewsouth.org/digital/knowclt/
Download app for self guided tour of Brooklyn neighborhood
Videos:
Author Greg Jarrell (Our Trespasses) speaking to MP Baptist Forum:
https://www.youtube.com/live/zlL-yU_Vapc?si=lcQRW4KTbJYwVSCM
Author Greg Jarrell (Our Tresspasses) with Common Good Podcast (2 of 2):
https://youtu.be/NYdYe1Lx9sU?si=iHnrbeRg0DvGCDtx
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tuu8RLGM6PA
Author Tom Hanchett (Sorting Out the New South City) to CharMeck Public Library Group as prelude-context for their Community Read of Tomorrow’s Bread by Anna Jean Mayhew:
https://youtu.be/NkDedXDl3eU?si=XJepleLqE-Rj4JRb
WTVI (PBS) Short on the history of Brooklyn