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A
Charlotte
is
a
city
that
is
torn
down
so
much
and
it's
not
because
we
hate
history.
It's
because
we've
had
money,
we've
always
had
money
to
tear
it
down
and
build
new,
and
in
some
ways
that
is
who
we
are
we're.
This
new
South
City
we're
always
chasing
the
newest
thing,
but
it's
really
important
to
hang
on
to
some
of
the
past,
because
it
helps
us
in
the
present
know
that
people
make
history.
One.
B
C
B
C
C
A
Davis
and
his
wife
Marie
G
Davis,
were
very
important
Charlatans
about
a
hundred
years
ago.
He
was
the
first
african-american
professor
at
what's
now
Johnson
C
smith
University.
It
started
right
after
the
Civil
War
to
Train
preachers
and
teachers,
but
at
that
point,
African
Americans
had
been
forbidden
from
even
learning
to
read
and
write,
so
it
started
out
basically
as
an
elementary
school
and
then
became
a
college.
A
University.
B
A
D
B
Georgie
Davis
house
still
sits
across
from
campus
and
the
Biddle
Ville
neighborhood
and
was
recently
renovated.
Also
still
standing
are
the
stone
entry
gates,
University
Archivist
Brandon
Lunsford
says
they
were
meant
to
honor
the
late
Johnson
C
Smith,
whose
wife
Jane
Smith
donated
a
total
of
$700,000
to
the
University.
The.
D
B
A
Mccrory
was
probably
one
of
the
most
important
people
ever
in
Charlotte
history
in
terms
of
shaping
the
city
we
have
now
and
I'm
particularly
excited
about
a
neighborhood
called
McCrory
Heights.
That's
just
past
Johnson,
C
smith,
University
near
the
historic
Excelsior
club
and
HL
McCurry
had
that
laid
out
in
the
19-teens
for
African
American
professionals
and
it
really
blossomed
right
after
World
War
Two
as
America
became
more
prosperous,
african-americans
coming
out
of
the
the
black
colleges,
also
out
of
white
universities.
A
A
Americans
are
part
of
the
military
force
that
beats
Hitler,
and
then
those
black
soldiers
come
black
back
to
places
like
Charlotte
and
they
can't
go
to
the
country
club.
They
can't
go
to
the
social
club
and
so
in
Charlotte
Jimmy
McKee
and
his
wife
Minnie
created
their
own
City
Club,
and
that
is
the
Excelsior
Club
begun
in
1944.
Was
the
old
house
was
massively
renovated
in
the
1950s
to
create
that
art
deco
masterpiece
that
you
see
on
Bailey's,
Ford
Road
when.
C
C
A
The
new
McCrory
YMCA
is
out
on
Beatty's
Ford
Road,
but
this
is
the
original
one
that
opened
in
1951
and
it
was
created
by
the
black
community
for
the
black
community
at
a
time
when
government
did
not
do
much
in
terms
of
recreation
parks.
Anything
like
that,
if
you
were
black
and
so
African
Americans
got
together
under
the
leadership
of
HL
McCrory,
dr.
H,
al
McCrory,
the
president
of
what's
now
Johnson
C
smith
University
and
said
we
are
going
to
build
our
own
entertainment
and
exercise
place.
The
McCrory
YMCA,
while.
A
The
first
half
of
the
20th
century
this
area,
it's
now
the
government
Center-
was
the
leading
African
American
neighborhood
called
Brooklyn
a
city
within
a
city
with
its
own
black
Main
Street,
its
own
churches
stores
school,
and
it
was
demolished
by
something
called
urban
renewal
in
the
1950s
and
60s,
which
is
so
they
happened,
nationwide
and
one
of
the
great
tragedies
I.
Think
of
American
urban
history.
The.
B
Original
McCrory,
why
is
one
of
just
three
buildings
left
over
from
Brooklyn
just
around
the
corner
on
South
Brevard
Street
you'll
find
the
other
two:
the
Grace
AME
Zion
Church,
alongside
the
Mecklenburg
investment
company
building
the
first
office
building
in
Charlotte
built
exclusively
by
and
for
black
professionals.
Both
are
designated
as
landmarks
by
the
Charlotte
Mecklenburg
Historic
Landmarks
Commission
people.
A
Struggled
and
strived
to
build
things
like
the
McCrory
YMCA
to
build
Johnson
C
Smith
as
a
well-funded
small
african-american
college,
to
build
the
excelsior
Club
at
a
time
when
african-americans
will
not
welcome
in
the
predominantly
white
community,
and
so
history
is
what
gives
us
a
grounding.
History
is
what
helps
us
know
that
we
can
make
history,
because
the
people
before
us
have-
and
it's
our
job
to
do
that
now.