In a memorable part of the “CBI In Black & White” Bus Tour, Dr. Tom Hanchett uses a pushpin map to indicate how the City of Charlotte was first racially integrated, before becoming segregated in the late 19th Century.
First Ward in 1875, with people of different races and economic classes living on the same blocks:
First Ward in 1910, after segregation became the norm:
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