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One of the largest and fastest-growing cities in the South, Charlotte, North Carolina, came of age in the New South decades of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, transforming itself from a rural courthouse village to the trading and financial hub of Americas premier textile manufacturing region. In this book, Thomas Hanchett traces the citys spatial evolution over the course of a century, exploring the interplay of national trends and local forces that shaped Charlotte, and, by extension, other New South urban centers.Hanchett argues that racial and economic segregation are not age-old givens, but products of a decades-long process. Well after the Civil War, Charlottes whites and blacks, workers and business owners, all lived intermingled in a salt-and-pepper pattern. The rise of large manufacturing enterprises in the 1880s and 1890s brought social and political upheaval, however, and the city began to sort out into a checkerboard of distinct neighborhoods segregated by both race and class. When urban renewal and other federal funds became available in the mid-twentieth century, local leaders used the money to complete the sorting out process, creating a sector pattern in which wealthy whites increasingly lived on one side of town and blacks on the other.

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title:Sorting Out the New South City : Race, Class, and Urban Development in Charlotte, 1875-1975
author:Hanchett, Thomas W.
publisher:University of North Carolina Press
isbn10 | asin:0807846775
print isbn13:9780807846773
ebook isbn13:9780807861882
language:English
subjectCharlotte (N.C.)--History.
publication date:1998
lcc:F264.C4H28 1998eb
ddc:975.6/76
subject:Charlotte (N.C.)--History.
Page iii
Sorting Out the New South City
Race, Class, and Urban Development in Charlotte, 18751975
Thomas W. Hanchett
Page iv 1998 The University of North Carolina Press All rights reserved - photo 2
Page iv
1998 The University of North Carolina Press
All rights reserved
Designed by April Leidig-Higgins
Set in Electra by Keystone Typesetting, Inc.
Manufactured in the United States of America
The paper in this book meets the guidelines for permanence and durability of the Committee on Production Guidelines for Book Longevity of the Council on Library Resources.
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Hanchett, Thomas W. Sorting out the New South city :
race, class, and urban development in Charlotte,
18751975/by Thomas W. Hanchett.
p. cm. Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN 0-8078-2376-7 (alk. paper)
ISBN 0-8078-4677-5 (pbk. : alk. paper)
1. Charlotte (N.C.)History. I. Title.
F264.C4H28 1998 97-40785
975.676dc21 CIP
02 01 00 99 98 5 4 3 2 1
Page v
FOR THE SAWYERS AND THE HANCHETTS,
ESPECIALLY LYDIA
Page vii
Contents
Acknowledgments
xiii
Introduction
1
1
The Preindustrial City
13
2
Habiliments of Progress
47
3
Insolence
69
4
Creating Blue-Collar Neighborhoods
89
5
Creating Black Neighborhoods
115
6
Creating White-Collar Neighborhoods
145
7
Downtown in the 1900s1920s
183
8
The Limits of Local Government: Debating Annexation and Planning
205
9
The Federal City: From Patchwork to Sectors
223
Afterword
257
Notes
265
Bibliography
337
Index
373

Page ix
Tables
1. Charlotte Population, 18501990
2
2. Conveners of Charlotte's First Railroad Meeting, 1845
21
3. Black and White Populations of Charlotte by Ward, 1879
42
4. 1896 Election Margins in Charlotte Township
84
5. Charlotte's New South Banks, 18651930
187
6. Downtown Charlotte's Tall Building Boom, 19001930
197
7. Largest New Deal FERA/CWA Projects in Mecklenburg, 19331935
228
8. Most Racially Segregated Cities in the United States, 1940 and 1970
262

Color Figures
Following Page 144
1. Race and Occupation in a Portion of First Ward, ca. 1875
2. Race in a Portion of First Ward, ca. 1910
3. Federal HOLC Redlining, 1937
4. Building Zone Map of Charlotte, 1947

Figures
1. Charlotte Land Use, ca. 1975
4
2. Charlotte Land Use, ca. 1925
6
3. Charlotte Land Use, ca. 1875
7
4. The City of Charlotte, 1925
10
5. Neighborhoods Discussed in Detail in This Study
11
6. Mecklenburg's Social Pyramid
18
7. Regional Railroad Hub, 1876
26
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