Covering America: 200 Years of U.S. History, 1800 to 2000 is dedicated to educating the greater public on specific American history topics and to bringing further awareness to the collections held within American libraries, museums, and archival institutions.
Covering America: The Textile Heritage of 19th-Century Quilts is derived from the National Museum of American History's National Quilt Collection and introduces the public to a small sample of the quilts that are part of the larger collection and which are seldom on display. (For more information about the National Quilt Collection, please click here.)
"This Period of Grave Crisis": North Carolinians Respond to Brown, 1954-1974 is an exhibit drawn from the curator's original research and utilizes newspaper articles, editorials, letters, speeches, memoirs, and more to convey how the state's multi-racial citizens responded to the Supreme Court's ruling to end school segregation in Brown v. Board of Education.
Featured Item
Pantego School Number Two, Beaufort County Training School
Photo of Pantego School Number Two, a Rosenwald school that served Beaufort County, North Carolina
Featured Collection
North Carolina's Papers Break the News of Brown
This collection features numerous headlines from newspapers across North Carolina in the days after the Supreme Court's 1954 Brown decision.
Featured Exhibit
Covering America: The Textile Heritage of 19th-Century Quilts
This exhibit is derived from the larger National Quilt Collection housed at the National Museum of American History. The full...
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Boston Student Visits Charlotte
Barbara Steer of Hyde Park High School in Boston visits West Charlotte
Busing to a New School
Students and a teacher ride the bus to their new school on the first day of classes