Race in Charlotte Schools : Images

Integration at Harding High School
Photograph by Don Sturkey.

Photographer Notes: "Integration at Harding High School and Alexander Graham Junior High in Charlotte/Dorothy Counts with mob as she enters Harding High School, 9 September 1957"
a struggle for freedom is coming
Photograph by Don Sturkey.

Photographer Notes: "Charlotte Mecklenburg school desegregation problems, February 1970"
Racial disturbance at South Mecklenburg High School
Photograph by Don Sturkey.

Photographer Notes: "Racial disturbance at South Mecklenburg High School, 18 February 1971"
Racial disturbance at South Mecklenburg High School
Photograph by Don Sturkey.

Photographer Notes: "Racial disturbance at South Mecklenburg High School, 18 February 1971"
Racial disturbance at South Mecklenburg High School
Photograph by Don Sturkey.

Photographer Notes: "Racial disturbance at South Mecklenburg High School, 18 February 1971"
districting map
Photograph by Don Sturkey.

Photographer Notes: "Lottery drawing for school integration in Charlotte Mecklenburg Schools (names drawn were to attend West Charlotte High School, a historically black school), 20 July 1973"
Lottery drawing for school integration
Photograph by Don Sturkey.

Photographer Notes: "Lottery drawing for school integration in Charlotte Mecklenburg Schools (names drawn were to attend West Charlotte High School, a historically black school), 20 July 1973"

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