INTEGRATION:CHARLOTTE IN THE

70’SMelissa Binns

“INDEPENDENCE HAD SO MANY PROJECTORS EACH CLASSROOM RECEIVED A PROJECTOR AND EXTRAS WERE PLACED IN STORAGE. ON THE OTHER HAND, WEST CHARLOTTE NEEDED PROJECTORS…FIVE TEACHERS…WERE REQUIRED TO SHARE THE SAME BROKEN

PROJECTOR.”

Quote: Bradshaw, K. A. (n.d.). Charlotte, NC: Birthplace (and Place of Death) of Integration in PublicSchools « North Carolina History projects. Retrieved from http://carolinahistory.web.unc.edu/charlotte-nc-birthplace-and-place-of-death-of-integration-in-public-schools/

Picture: Wikimedia Commons/National Archives and Records Administration (n.d.). Protesters march against the segregation of U.S. schools [Photograph]. Retrieved from http://colorlines.com/archives/2011/05/brown_v_board_of_education_feature.html

DARIUS AND VERA SWANNSWANN V. CHARLOTTE-MECKLENBURG

BOARD OF EDUCATION

Picture: CMStory.org (n.d.). Darius and Vera Swann [Photograph.]. Retrieved from http://50279824.nhd.weebly.com/swann-v-charlotte-mecklenburg-backup------new-b.html

“THE DUTY TO OBSERVE THE CONSTITUTION AND DESEGREGATE THE SCHOOLS CANNOT BE REDUCED OR AVOIDED BECAUSE OF OUTCRIES FROM THOSE WHO WANT THE LAW TO GO AWAY,” -JUDGE MCMILLAN QUOTED IN A 1972 EDITION OF THE SUNDAY-GAZETTE-MAIL

Picture: Judge James B. McMillan [Photograph]. (n.d.). Retrieved from http://www.cmhpf.org/Morrill%20Book/CH12.htm

Quote:Loh, Jules. (1972, May 8). Busing in the south: it’s working (in Charlotte, anyway). Sunday Gazette-Mail. p. 1C.

Judge McMillan

“BUSING HAS BROUGHT DIVISION AND DISRUPTION TO OUR CITY AND OUR SCHOOLS AND THAT’S ALL IT HAS DONE.”-FATHER OF TWO WHITE CHILDREN QUOTED IN A 1972 EDITION OF THE SUNDAY-GAZETTE-MAIL

Quote:Loh, Jules. (1972, May 8). Busing in the south: it’s working (in Charlotte, anyway). Sunday Gazette-Mail. p. 1C.

Picture:

Library of Congress. Retrieved from http://www.oxfordaasc.com/public/features/archive/0507/photo_essay.jsp?page=1

6-YEAR-OLD ANGELA SANDERS OF CHARLOTTE RIDING THE BUS TO SCHOOL AS PICTURED IN A 1970 ISSUE OF THE FRESNO BEE

(1970, September 10). Integration. The Fresno Bee. p. 12-A

“IF YOU MEAN IT WORKED BECAUSE NOBODY’S SKULL GOT FRACTURED THIS YEAR THEN I SUPPOSE IT DID,”-FATHER OF TWO WHITE CHILDREN QUOTED IN A 1972 EDITION OF THE SUNDAY-GAZETTE-MAIL

Picture:

NAACP (n.d.). School Dilemma—Youths taunt Dorothy Geraldine Counts in Charlotte, North Carolina [Photograph]. Retrieved from http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/brown/brown-aftermath.html

Quote:Loh, Jules. (1972, May 8). Busing in the south: it’s working (in Charlotte, anyway). Sunday Gazette-Mail. p. 1C.

“PEOPLE JUST SEEM TO GET ALONG.”-BOSTON STUDENT BOB MESSINA ON CHARLOTTE’S HIGH SCHOOLS, AS QUOTED IN A 1974 ISSUE OF THE GASTONIA GAZETTE

Picture:Green, J. W. (n.d.). Black students get on the bus at South Boston High School in 1975 following court-ordered integration [Photograph]. Retrieved from http://www.thenation.com/blog/173702/boston-ends-desegregation-busing-students-face-new-inequities#

Quote:(1974, October 23). Charlotte gets good marks on integration. The Gastonia Gazette. p. 2A

Picture:Students riding the bus in Charlotte, 1973 [Photograph]. (n.d.). Retrieved from http://tropicsofmeta.wordpress.com/2014/02/20/the-massive-missed-opportunity/

“WE’RE STILL WORKING AT IT EVERY DAY AND WE DON’T HAVE ANY MIRACLE ANSWERS. BUT…WE WANT YOU TO KNOW WE’VE LEARNED A LOT ABOUT JUDGING ANYBODY, BLACK OR WHITE, AS AN INDIVIDUAL. IT JUST TOOK TIME.” –CHARLOTTE STUDENT DWIGHT COVINGTON QUOTED IN A 1974 COPY OF THE GASTONIA GAZETTE

Quote:(1974, October 23). Charlotte gets good marks on integration. The Gastonia Gazette. p. 2A