Levine Museum of the New South
Organization
Found in 3 Collections and/or Records:
Levine Museum of the New South oral history projects
Collection
Identifier: OH-MU
Scope and Contents
The Levine Museum of the New South collection is divided into thirteen series that cover a variety of historical topics related to the Charlotte region during the twentieth and early twenty-first centuries. Museum staff, student interns and consultants conducted the interviews between 1990 and the early 2000s. Many of the series were created as an accompaniment to museum programming during this time, while others reflect a desire to document a disappearing local history. Subjects explored in...
Dates:
1964 - 2002
North Carolina Century papers
Collection
Identifier: MS0353
Overview
Materials pertaining to the research and publishing of North Carolina Century: Tar Heels who Made a Difference, 1900-2000, published by Levine Museum of the New South in Charlotte, NC. (Special Collections CT252 .N67 2002)
Dates:
circa 1950-2000
Protest of Keith Lamont Scott Police Shooting photographs and videos
Collection
Identifier: MS0586
Scope and Contents
On Tuesday, September 20, 2016, police fatally shot 43-year-old Keith Lamont Scott, an African American man, in the parking lot of an apartment complex near the University of North Carolina at Charlotte. Protests over the police action erupted the night of the shooting near the site where it occurred, with demonstrators blocking all lanes of Interstate 85 in the early hours of the morning of September 21. The unrest continued September 21 and into the early hours of September 22 in...
Dates:
2016-09-20 - 2016-09-22