A Conversation on Changing Landscapes and Public Memories
UNC Charlotte's Center for the Study of the New South presents this citywide roundtable to discuss the stories of Charlotte behind the face of the city and how those stories are or should be preserved in memory as the image (and narrative) of the New Southern city continues.
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DateApr 6, 2022
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Event Starts12:00 PM
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VenueSHOUT! Lounge & CMS Gallery
Event Details
Dialogue facilitated by UNC Charlotte's Center for the Study of the New South among several city and community organizations will include efforts to preserve family stories and cemeteries, locations where memorials and markers are necessary, and other landscapes shaped by race and gender in the city.
Featured participants:
Frederick Murphy, History Before Us
Charlotte Mecklenburg Library Robinson-Spangler Carolina Room
Afro-American Historical and Genealogical Society (AAHGS)
After the forum, there will be a book signing featuring local authors Pamela Grundy & H.D. (“De”) Kirkpatrick for their latest releases:
Legacy: Three Centuries of Black History in Charlotte, North Carolina by Pamela Grundy. The stories told by many generations of Charlotte’s African American residents mingle strength and hardship, accomplishment and setback, joy and pain. Through slavery, through war, through Jim Crow segregation and into the 21st century Black residents from all walks of life have played essential roles in making Charlotte the city it is today. Everyone needs to know this history.
The mural on Legacy’s cover, which features early Black leaders Thad Tate, J.T. Williams and W.C. Smith, is by Abel Jackson, one of many Black History murals he has painted around town.
Marse: A Psychological Portrait of the Southern Slave Master and His Legacy of White Supremacy by H.D. (“De”) Kirkpatrick focuses on the white men who composed the antebellum southern planter class in the period of 1830–1861. This book is a psychological autopsy of the minds and behaviors of enslavers that helps explain the enduring roots of white supremacy and the hidden wounds of racist slavery that continue to affect Americans today.
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