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| - The Levine Museum of The New South holds some powerful memorabilia and painful memories that people of all ages and races would benefit from seeing.
The museum itself is modern, bright, and spectacular to behold. Currently, there are numerous Christmas trees decorated in various fashions around the first floor entrance inside the museum.
I visited the "Cotton Fields to Skyscrapers" exhibit last week while on a work trip to Charlotte with some colleagues and was bowled over with emotion by much of what I saw.
There is a massively thorough history of photos, newspaper articles, historical documents, and audio and visual elements displayed which chronicle the post- Civil War history of the South (and America, in essence)- much of it specifically focused on North and South Carolina.
Indeed, it captures everything historically relevant from "cotton fields to skyscrapers", and thus it is aptly named. Slavery, historical info on the KKK, lynchings (including powerful photos underneath a folder visitors can choose not to view), Jim Crow laws, segregated schools, political memorabilia, old property deeds with "no negroes" language, documentation of busing, sit-ins, voter discrimination, women's liberation, and more.
Much MUCH more.
I don't want to give too much away, but would instead urge people to visit Levine- particularly this exhibit. Thank you to our guide Camille as well. She was a wonderful narrator and facilitated some dynamic conversations for our group.
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