Resources

To learn more about Charlotte and the Piedmont region of North and South Carolina in the 20th century, we recommend the following resources:

An African American Album Vol. 2: The Black Experience in Charlotte and Mecklenburg County. [interactive multimedia]. Charlotte, N.C.: Public Library of Charlotte and Mecklenburg County, 1998.

Dew, Stephen Herman. The Queen City at War: Charlotte, North Carolina During World War II, 1939-1945. Lanham, Md.: University Press of America, 2001.

Gaillard, Frye. The Dream Long Deferred. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1988.

Grundy, Pamela. The Most Democratic Sport: Basketball and Culture in the Central Piedmont, 1893-1994. Charlotte, N.C.: Museum of the New South, 1994.

Hanchett, Thomas W. Sorting out the New South City: Race, Class, and Urban Development in Charlotte, 1875-1975. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1998.

Kratt, Mary. New South Women; Twentieth-Century Women of Charlotte, North Carolina. Charlotte: Public Library of Charlotte and Mecklenburg County, 2001.

Kratt, Mary and Mary Manning Boyer. Remembering Charlotte: Postcards from a New South City, 1905-1950. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2000.

North Carolina Atlas: Portrait for a New Century, edited by Douglas M. Orr, Jr. and Alfred W. Stuart. Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press, 1999.

Randolph, Elizabeth S. and Pat Ryckman. An African American Album: The Black Experience in Charlotte and Mecklenburg County. Charlotte, N.C.: Public Library of Charlotte and Mecklenburg County, 1992.

Sanford, Ken. Charlotte and UNC Charlotte, Growing Up Together. Charlotte, N.C.: University of North Carolina at Charlotte, 1996.

Tullow, Allen. Habits of Industry: White Culture and the Transformation of the Carolina Piedmont. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1989.

For more collections of personal narratives from the piedmont region, see:

The Great Depression - How We Coped, Worked and Played: Life-Experience Stories from the Carolinas' Piedmont, edited by Margaret G. Bigger; illustrated by Lexie Little Hill.
Charlotte, NC: A. Borough Books, 2001.

Like a Family: The Making of a Southern Cotton Mill World, by Jacquelyn Dowd Hall ... [et al.] ; with a new afterword by the authors; foreword by Michael Frisch. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2000.

The Southern Oral History Program at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill collects interviews throughout the South.