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Donated by her daughter Darnell Ivory. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b4537ed365f02ee34e7058c/1544213234512-7NUUGFFCU1R8E16YZT0M/1970Feb20.jpg Sidebar Images - Feb. 20, 1970 Busing: Where It Is, Isn't Feb. 20 1970 special section that discusses the particulars of the school busing case before the court https://drive.google.com/file/d/1XCmQz7C0Spwzn1CRNXV3G406jarrSkIY/view?usp=sharing https://drive.google.com/file/d/10guO-bL_f2piOw2YgTvOVUQBq1dyxFj-/view?usp=sharing https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b4537ed365f02ee34e7058c/1544213968770-17S0DX8T9DVZET21F2DS/1975July12.jpg Sidebar Images - July 12, 1975 - School Desgregation Case finally closed after years of appeals After years of appeals and court challenges, Judge McMillan announces that the case is closed and he does not intend to reopen it. The paper is filled with in-depth analysis of the history of the case. https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Y6qbzkon0vo3nXGm1bKNTYWA_9Ae8fvM/view?usp=sharing https://drive.google.com/file/d/16DAb-BES-mMINSQtwK6Ia8fDqbLm5UFq/view?usp=sharing https://drive.google.com/file/d/1tbRbz-aS3J2mwyu0JEt6flfFcn5B4kL2/view?usp=sharing https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b4537ed365f02ee34e7058c/1544214146536-ERRMDCE2V0KQG8UWOQUY/1982June06.jpg Sidebar Images - June 6, 1982 - CMS graduates it's first class of "Desegregation Babies" Story about Charlotte’s first graduating class of seniors that attended all 12 grades of integrated classes, in 1982. https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Qt8Ruz8LIkHa-r78R18sa7j8eTollFlO/view?usp=sharing https://drive.google.com/file/d/1j42Fob5EW1iaMzTDrDnr3sELBJFtJfi9/view?usp=sharing https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b4537ed365f02ee34e7058c/1544214587252-FE3LV82U2X0NQ3DXQSZL/1999Sep11.jpg Sidebar Images - Sep. 11, 1999 - Judge Orders the end of Racial Assignments in Charlotte schools In 1999, Judge Robert Potter ordered Charlotte schools to stop busing by race, effectively ending school desgregation in Mecklenburg County https://drive.google.com/file/d/1icHNvnO0i5-ZXLDT304ht4Bxf2PByacT/view?usp=sharing https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b4537ed365f02ee34e7058c/1544216134405-75U4GGVOWHA24ZCKBKEI/Untitled_edited-3.jpg Sidebar Images - 2016 - Desegregation and Resegregation of Charlotte's Schools 2016 New Yorker article about the saga of desegregation and resegregation of Charlotte’s schools and neighborhoods through the lens of the killing of Keith Lamont Scott. https://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/the-desegregation-and-resegregation-of-charlottes-schools https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b4537ed365f02ee34e7058c/1544216444450-TK8O2538OIM8POG6SYWB/Untitled_edited-4.jpg Sidebar Images - 2018 - School Segregation in America as bad today as it was in the 60's 2018 Newsweek cover story detailing the resegregation of America’s schools and beginning with the national attention around Charlotte’s busing case. https://www.newsweek.com/2018/03/30/school-segregation-america-today-bad-1960-855256.html https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b4537ed365f02ee34e7058c/1546972502622-ADEPTY8RDPL085V8S33M/HighwayCommissionLetter.jpg Sidebar Images - Highway Commission Right of Way Letter to Emily Ivory Letter from the NC State Highway Commission notifying Emily Ivory of 1631 Van Buren Ave in McCrorey Heights that her property would be acquired by right-of-way. Donated by Emily’s daughter, Darnell Ivory. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b4537ed365f02ee34e7058c/1546974372078-ACVE4UAYA74REFEZM706/merge_from_ofoct+%281%29.jpg Sidebar Images - Charlotte Post article about the Northwest Expressway and McCrorey Heights Article from the Charlotte Post about the Northwest Expressway coming through McCrorey Heights, with the Ivory home at 1631 Van Buren Ave. visible in the picture. 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Used courtesy of Special Collections at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte. https://flic.kr/s/aHsmx6NgGA https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b4537ed365f02ee34e7058c/1546979873957-8CXJDLTPUZSYTIIIAZNR/Hawkins-07.jpg Sidebar Images - Reginald Hawkins Letters about Bombings Flickr album of letters written to and by Reginald Hawkins related to the bombing attacks on Nov. 22, 1965. Donated to the project by Special Collections at University of North Carolina at Charlotte. https://flic.kr/s/aHskLUVUFH https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b4537ed365f02ee34e7058c/1546981123638-TGWTYV2HDAHUT8O65K9T/CP_GH_003_edited-1.jpg Sidebar Images - Alfred Alexander bombing interview Alfred Alexander describes his childhood memories of the bombing at the home of Kelly Alexander in Nov. 1965 in an interview with the University of NC at Charlotte. Used courtesy of UNCC Special Collections. https://soundcloud.com/user-903488555/alfred-alexander-bombing-interview https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b4537ed365f02ee34e7058c/1546981386857-UW2E5SGOMVLQNNZ4PQP6/KellyAlexanderMap.jpg Sidebar Images - Bombing floor plan maps Flickr album of maps shown in the Charlotte Observer in Nov. 1965 detailing locations of bombs and occupants of the homes https://flic.kr/s/aHsmyVYwS9 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b4537ed365f02ee34e7058c/1546981739800-Y1KH4CUKY78DNPUFG29X/Bombings.jpg Sidebar Images - Nov. 23, 1965 - Law Agencies Mass to Probe Bombings Charlotte Observer special article published the morning of the bombings https://drive.google.com/file/d/1ESBjSE9u1mYRU3-b9A1JxGreRdEEpges/view?usp=sharing https://drive.google.com/file/d/1W6Q9ddCX9YUhwj9uiJI3SYmkCyfud434/view?usp=sharing https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b4537ed365f02ee34e7058c/1546982127109-IFX5A5J1407N141AOCYT/chambers.jpg Sidebar Images - Feb. 5, 1971 - Incendiary Fire Burns Rights' Lawyers Offices Observer article about the 1971 bombing of Julius Chambers’ downtown law offices, which brought back memories of the coordinated attacks in 1965 https://drive.google.com/file/d/1cjpMNe1BDje8Q0vZ2-3ZD8CggJ3onXHB/view?usp=sharing https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b4537ed365f02ee34e7058c/1547043081221-FO08MOGZH9Y1RPHWFNHY/50+years.jpg Sidebar Images - Nov. 22, 2015 - 50 Years Ago: Bombs Ignited Night Article in the Charlotte Observer reflecting on the 50 year anniversary of the bombing attacks https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b4537ed365f02ee34e7058c/1547043517740-DNBF12R8W46FB82DAEM5/shortchanged.jpg Sidebar Images - Oct 29, 1966 Editorial 1966 Observer editorial discussing how residents displaced by the Northwest Expressway (mostly black residents) were not even compensated for their moving expenses because it was a city project while those moved by the North-South Expressway (mostly white residents) were since it was funded by the state. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b4537ed365f02ee34e7058c/1548255527986-MRL2ZXPQZ54EXDYUBTZY/Protest+at+Lunch+Counter.jpg Sidebar Images - JCSU and Civil Rights A Flickr album of Johnson C. Smith University students seated at lunch counters demanding service, and marching to uptown Charlotte to ask for equal treatment. https://flic.kr/s/aHsmzJmtfE https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b4537ed365f02ee34e7058c/1548256541966-4I5XOX6JQUX3XZ7NL0AT/1960Feb11.jpg Sidebar Images - Feb. 11, 1960 "Negroes Continue Protest at Diners" Charlotte Observer article about the lunch counter protests led by JCSU students in the wake of the Greensboro sit-ins, February 1960 https://drive.google.com/file/d/1HGgLYaaZEpDZ0VmxdzaD8Lqk4y_qWF13/view?usp=sharing https://drive.google.com/file/d/13J-i2Lugsr_Wzg9TKqLhZQSO6Ha0YEa1/view?usp=sharing https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b4537ed365f02ee34e7058c/1548257120098-Q88TEQP97O68H5UKADAS/1964JCSUNews.jpg Sidebar Images - March 1964 - JCSU University Student "500 March to Back Rights Bill" Article from the JCSU University Student reporting on the students who marched from the campus to uptown Charlotte to back passage of the Civil Rights Bill. https://drive.google.com/file/d/12ALmOeSvBxcKIwCLNea8BlqlPC1B3-O7/view?usp=sharing https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b4537ed365f02ee34e7058c/1548257492328-S3RQPKQ7PCKQJ1WI0WHD/1966Sep22.jpg Sidebar Images - Sept. 22, 1966 - Dr. Martin Luther King speaks at JCSU Charlotte Observer article recounting Dr. King’s 1966 visit to Johnson C. Smith University https://drive.google.com/file/d/1aArd8XaVLMaV2j32-_cN0cSwmtWKdGnN/view?usp=sharing https://drive.google.com/file/d/1gZHg7Md7lj6Ot1AcyMgzzlZnGsHI3dRt/view?usp=sharing https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b4537ed365f02ee34e7058c/1548258884409-AY8MBD67E84CREHT9W85/RG32-Peeler-K0006-02.jpg Sidebar Images - MLK Jr. visit to JCSU, 1966 Flickr album of images of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. speaking at JCSU in 1966, with Dr. Reginald Hawkins, JCSU President Dr. Rufus Perry, and others visible. Photos taken by James Peeler and available via the Peeler Collection at JCSU, the Special Collections of UNC-Charlotte, and the Carolina Room of the Public Library. https://flic.kr/s/aHsmzJt2w1 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b4537ed365f02ee34e7058c/1548259889006-MXQH4BI5NGH1627BZUC0/nypl.digitalcollections.dc858e50-83d3-0132-2266-58d385a7b928.001.q.jpg Sidebar Images - West End "Green Book" locations Commonly referred to as Green Books, these travel guides for African Americans during the Jim Crow era listed establishments in cities and states across the U.S. that welcomed black customers. As compiled by the NC Historic Preservation Office and NC State University graduate students, here is a list of the Green Book locations in the West End. https://drive.google.com/file/d/19ZKNO_mxRk-fiHWAtwzmyF6zAqJMTRwf/view?usp=sharing https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b4537ed365f02ee34e7058c/1548260208298-A4FU32A50U553N5HW671/IMG_charlesjones_PAGE_22_13_1_EL7FP11N_L205986299.jpg Sidebar Images - CharlotteFive: Meet the man who led Charlotte’s lunch counter sit-ins and went to jail with Martin Luther King Jr. CharlotteFive podcast profile of JCSU Student leader Charles Jones, a long-time West End resident who rode with the Freedom Riders and led JCSU students on a march from campus to desegregate lunch counters in 1960. https://www.charlottefive.com/charlottefive-podcast-charles-jones/ https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b4537ed365f02ee34e7058c/1548260698105-P4YFB509XOC3XKM0YBJN/Malcolm+X.jpg Sidebar Images - 1963 - Malcolm X speaks at the Hi-Fi Club in the West End in 1963, Black Nationalist leader Malcolm X spoke on the campus of JCSU and then at the Hi-Fi Club at 2700 Estelle Street in Washington Heights. Here is footage of that speech: https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x2wkr9q https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b4537ed365f02ee34e7058c/1548261034767-70QT7HHZY0IC2VEUOPC3/RTSOP7G.jpg Sidebar Images - The Atlantic, 2016 - "Shattering Charlotte's Myth of Racial Harmony" Article written in the wake of the protests following the killing of Keith Lamont Scott by Charlotte police that discusses the “myth” of racial harmony and the “peaceful path” to civil rights that exists around Charlotte’s history. https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2016/09/charlotte-race-history/501221/ https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b4537ed365f02ee34e7058c/1550688196758-TN5A43ZLYDF8E77KQ5LV/Joseph+DeLaine+Jr.jpg Sidebar Images - Thoughts on Gentrification - Joseph DeLaine https://soundcloud.com/user-903488555/gentrification-josephdelaine Joseph DeLaine, McCrorey Heights resident and son of civil rights pioneer Rev. Joseph DeLaine, speaks about gentrification in the West End in an interview conducted by JCSU on 9/16/17 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b4537ed365f02ee34e7058c/1550688612010-HTQZTP6OPERHX35BTBNL/Chatty+Hattie.jpg Sidebar Images - Thoughts on Gentrification - "Chatty" Hattie Leeper https://soundcloud.com/user-903488555/hattie-leeper-gentrification West End resident "Chatty Hattie" Leeper, the first black woman on Charlotte radio in the 1950's for WGIV, talks about the impact of gentrification on her community in an interview conducted by JCSU on 3/30/18. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b4537ed365f02ee34e7058c/1550689059205-9RZBKUABUVH6AIHGGN5J/Joneshippscoggins.jpg Sidebar Images - "White People in Biddleville" - March 10, 2016 https://drive.google.com/file/d/16pDRXddoHRdiXBViJ9AyDtracpleqfDF/view?usp=sharing Observer article detailing the benefits and drawbacks of the gentrification process going on in the Biddleville and Smallwood neighborhoods in the West End. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b4537ed365f02ee34e7058c/1550689432446-BEESA7CDI69XLLUN78TO/1966Dec26.jpg Sidebar Images - "Birth of a Possible Ghetto" - Dec 26, 1966 https://drive.google.com/file/d/1ZK2CbN11OnJWIK_jy5yqNxvGvWv1U2Hg/view?usp=sharing 1966 Observer article where councilman Fred Alexander predicts the rise of a “ghetto” on the West End of Charlotte. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b4537ed365f02ee34e7058c/1550690734942-IR9UGXEYJ1Z4XQB7D7VG/1975Sept01-1.jpg Sidebar Images - "Besieged Westside Holding Up" - Sept. 1, 1975 https://drive.google.com/file/d/1CEkTR8UUgaOqsjgMw2EKa2pckK0VabyZ/view?usp=sharing 1975 Observer article about the state of the Westside, which was already showing signs of decline and neglect. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b4537ed365f02ee34e7058c/1550690989658-8JBZ4832FSCA0LCZ62NZ/Tom+Hanchett.jpeg Sidebar Images - Thoughts on Gentrification - Tom Hanchett Charlotte historian Tom Hanchett discusses the historical context of gentrification and its impact on African American neighborhoods in Charlotte in an interview conducted by JCSU on 1/16/17. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b4537ed365f02ee34e7058c/1550693584119-SHS62PDRM4SC2N67AK3J/Michael+Doney.jpg Sidebar Images - Thoughts on Gentrification - Michael Doney https://soundcloud.com/user-903488555/michael-doney-five-points-realty-gentrification Michael Doney, realtor at Five Points Realty on Beatties Ford Road, speaks about the perception of gentrification from a business/real estate standpoint in an interview conducted by JCSU on 11/20/18 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b4537ed365f02ee34e7058c/1550693768866-LJD2WLYJOBJXLJY1TFWU/Savvy-Biddleville-696x464.jpg Sidebar Images - Savvy Real Estate - "Take a look at the beloved community of Biddleville and Smallwood" https://www.charlottefive.com/beloved-community/ An example on the Charlotte Five site showing an example of the climate where certain language is used by media and real estate companies to push home buying/renting in the Biddleville and Smallwood neighborhoods. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b4537ed365f02ee34e7058c/1550694012383-IYMS60YYPRT2J1BV15Y8/martha2.jpg Sidebar Images - "Residents get proactive in fight against gentrification" - Nov. 2016 https://clclt.com/charlotte/residents-get-proactive-in-the-fight-against-gentrification-on-the-west-side/Content?oid=3811309 Creative Loafing article about the response of neighborhood residents and groups to the gentrification concerns on the West End and the lack of affordable housing in Charlotte. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b4537ed365f02ee34e7058c/1550694378318-0M7L41PWCX8ABKQN062D/2006Jun13-1.jpg Sidebar Images - "A Revitalizing Vision" - June 13, 2006 https://drive.google.com/file/d/1qV7tNK4hcEpbOXvT182tYCQLllnDrUDQ/view?usp=sharing Observer article ahead of the financial collapse of 2008, when the West End was already poised to be “revitalized.” https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b4537ed365f02ee34e7058c/1550694700834-UA72RHAMRCYR0YKZTC9Y/Mattie+Marshall.jpg Sidebar Images - Gentrification in Washington Heights - Mattie Marshall https://soundcloud.com/user-903488555/gentrification-in-washington-heights-mattie-marshall Washington Heights neighborhood advocate Mattie Marshall discusses the impact of gentrification on her community in an interview conducted by JCSU on 8/17/17 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b4537ed365f02ee34e7058c/1550695060585-7I2HP596YW18PJ9Z64OQ/WTRF+CNIP+Summary+Document_FINAL-2.jpg Sidebar Images - West Trade-Rozzelle's Ferry CNIP Summary - 2015 https://drive.google.com/file/d/1NnUXW4b9NqzgPzZj6t26K1QHN5gvi04k/view?usp=sharing 2015 summary report of the Charlotte Comprehensive Neighborhood Improvement Program for the West Trade/Rozzelle’s Ferry zone that comprises the West End https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b4537ed365f02ee34e7058c/1550697631253-8UQBI1LW4H7C2REGCPH7/Rickey_Hall-12.jpg Sidebar Images - "Inside the West Side Community Land Trust" - Nov. 2018 http://www.charlottemagazine.com/Charlotte-Magazine/April-2018/Spare-the-Land/ Charlotte Magazine profiles the West Side Community Land Trust, an organization dedicated to helping residents secure mortgage loans, build credit, and open black-owned businesses in the West End. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b4537ed365f02ee34e7058c/1557328902121-A801MJTK0POBBJP5NPWL/tom-hanchett-1024x768-e1517849417997.jpg Sidebar Images - History of Black Settlement in Charlotte - Tom Hanchett https://soundcloud.com/user-903488555/history-of-black-settlement-in-charlotte-tom-hanchett Historian Tom Hanchett discusses the history and patterns of black settlement in Charlotte in an interview conducted by JCSU on 11/16/18 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b4537ed365f02ee34e7058c/1557346021550-TNDU62ZUKZ2W1C6IMAX8/BrooklynArticles.jpg Sidebar Images - Articles on Black Settlement and Urban Renewal Collection of articles from the Charlotte Observer from 1938 - 1983 about the settlement of African Americans in Charlotte https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1nmVNtkcE1VL8l6sy3CyXznHSwI682FSp?usp=sharing https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b4537ed365f02ee34e7058c/1557345851373-HJ0A4IK47C22V1QOLDLD/BrooklynOralHistory.jpg Sidebar Images - Brooklyn Oral History Collection of interviews with residents of the Brooklyn neighborhood compiled in 2004 and 2007 by students at UNC - Charlotte https://brooklyn-oral-history.uncc.edu/about/ https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b4537ed365f02ee34e7058c/1557346295082-8UPTYCX7OKHAGT51YP8M/BrooklynUNCC.jpg Sidebar Images - Brooklyn Neighborhood Guide Research guide providing history and resources on Brooklyn created by Atkins Library at UNC - Charlotte https://guides.library.uncc.edu/c.php?g=621704&p=4626874 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b4537ed365f02ee34e7058c/1557346489137-Y26ZSP4XLM801Y08Z3EA/Cherry.jpg Sidebar Images - Cherry Residents Struggle With The Effects Of Gentrification Observer article from January 2019 about the gentrification of the Cherry neighborhood https://www.wfae.org/post/finding-home-cherry-residents-struggle-effects-gentrification#stream/0 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b4537ed365f02ee34e7058c/1557346575393-7S4VVPMPJ0CJF20WPBOO/CherryUNCC.jpg Sidebar Images - Cherry Neighborhood Research Guide Research guide providing history and resources on the Cherry neighborhood, created by Atkins Library at UNC-Charlotte https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b4537ed365f02ee34e7058c/1557346656830-L02LRZLMHH5NWF2HEXP8/GreenvilleUNCC.jpg Sidebar Images - Greenville Neighborhood Research Guide Research guide providing history and resources on the Greenville neighborhood, created by Atkins Library at UNC - Charlotte https://guides.library.uncc.edu/c.php?g=621704&p=5192974 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b4537ed365f02ee34e7058c/1557346749156-9SLOQOKM40VJQ6L8S2M9/tom-hanchett-1024x768-e1517849417997.jpg Sidebar Images - Introduction to the West End Historian Tom Hanchett gives an overview of the history and importance of the West End in an interview conducted by JCSU on 11/16/18. https://soundcloud.com/user-903488555/intro-to-the-west-end-tom-hanchett https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b4537ed365f02ee34e7058c/1557346841295-A1ZX3SFAV74JJETQXSLO/Trail+of+History.jpg Sidebar Images - Trail of History Documentary on the West End PBS Charlotte documentary on the history and culture of the West End from February 2019. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2AX-IpD_0So&feature=youtu.be https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b4537ed365f02ee34e7058c/1557346979487-BQ3SBVOKTFS91CLPJEUI/Tim+Gibbs.jpg Sidebar Images - What It Means to Be From the West End Tim Gibbs talks about what it means to be from the West End in a brief clip, from an interview recorded by JCSU on 11/1/2017. https://soundcloud.com/user-903488555/character-of-the-west-end-tim-gibbs https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b4537ed365f02ee34e7058c/1557347098970-9XNA1IFIOKW8II2PNJW2/NorthEndSmartDistrict_05.jpg Sidebar Images - 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Charlotte Observer article from August 2017 about the changes happening in the North End neighborhood, a predominantly African American area in Charlotte bordering on the Historic West End https://www.charlotteobserver.com/news/business/biz-columns-blogs/development/article165057842.html https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b4537ed365f02ee34e7058c/1557347426271-TK45LVJ2E8ES4FV9AGNR/VermelleEly.jpg Sidebar Images - Vermelle Ely Interview Interview with Vermelle Diamond Ely, longtime Brooklyn resident, conducted on June 17, 1993 and included in Behind the Veil: Documenting African-American Life in the Jim Crow South Digital Collection, John Hope Franklin Research Center, Duke University Libraries. https://library.duke.edu/digitalcollections/behindtheveil_btvnc02018/ https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b4537ed365f02ee34e7058c/1605534076859-XU6ODZ4C2EHXNX7WSZ5K/image-asset.jpeg Sidebar Images - Reginald Hawkins discusses bombing of his home Reginald Hawkins discusses the bombing of his home on Madison Avenue in an interview held in the Special Collections at UNCC. 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