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December 9, 1995 - West Charlotte High School wins the state football championship.
March 1996 - Theater Charlotte presents “The Second City”.
May 30, 1996 - Ground breaking for Beatties Ford Road Library.
June 24, 1996 - The Olympic Torch comes through Charlotte. Vietnam veteran Kater Cornwell will carry it as a “community hero.”
June 29, 1996 - The new West Boulevard branch of the Public Library is dedicated.
July 5-11, 1996 - The National NAACP conference is held in Charlotte. Photo shows President Clinton and NAACP Chairwoman Myrlie Evers-Williams singing the "Battle Hymn of the Republic." Rev. J. R. Williams directs the singing convention-goers.
November 8, 1996 - The Henrietta Marie Project opens at Spirit Square.
Late 1996 - Protests erupt over the shooting of James Willie Cooper.
January 5, 1997 - The Panthers beat Dallas in the NFC Divisional Playoffs.
April 20, 1997 - The Beatties Ford Road Branch of the Public Library is opened.
The United House Of Prayer For All People on South McDowell St. The church was torn down in 1970 as part of urban renewal. The site is now part of Marshall Park.
Groundbreaking for the new First Baptist Church site. Left to right: Walter Taylor Sr., Irma Bland, Mildred Aldridge, Mary Kendrick, Bessie Franks, and Donald Kendrick.
Brooklyn Presbyterian Church at the corner of South McDowell and Bell Court was organized in 1911.
The Little Rock AME Zion Church was originally located in Third Ward. In 1919, the building was moved to Myers Street in First Ward.
The crowd at all-white Harding High School is angry and ready for trouble when 15-year-old Dorothy Counts arrives escorted by Dr. Edwin Thompkins, a family friend. She is greeted by an angry crowd. Even teachers at the school express their displeasure, some with words and some with silence.
On September 4, 1957 Delois Huntley becomes the first black student at the old Alexander Graham Junior High on Morehead Street. Her first day's experience is less eventful than any of the other desegregation pioneers.
As a young man, Charles Manuel Grace sailed by ship from West Africa and arrived in the Unites States sometime around 1903.