1956 - New Main Library

November 19, 1956 - Charlotte opens its new main library building.

• Members of the library staff, like former Library Director Hoyt Galvin, accommodate the African American community privately.
• However, by law the black community could only use the Brevard St. branch.
• The Brevard St. branch will close in 1961 and be torn down as part of urban renewal.
• Charlotte's main library building is opened at 310 North Tryon St. on the site where the old Carnegie Library stood, side by side with the First Baptist Church (later Spirit Square).