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Taken from a membership application, these rules and regulations of the Patriots of North Carolina outline what is expected of all members in protection of "Anglo-Saxon institutions."

Taken from the inside of "The Supreme Court Order on School Desegregation," this sample petition gives readers an idea on how to ask their local school to desegregate.

This is a photo of the football team from the all-black Second Ward High School in 1932. The first row of players are set in position and the back row students are standing up.

This is a brightly painted postcard featuring Second Ward School, one of the two main black schools in Charlotte.

In 1948, the NAACP hired a professor from Howard University to study Charlotte schools in order to document the inequality. In this graph, school subjects taught in white schools often did not appear in black schools.

This is a brochure printed by the NAACP with an address by Roy Wilkins, the longtime executive chairman of the organization. In this image, only the cover is viewable. Inside, the entire text appears from a speech delivered on June 26, 1955 to the…

This is the spread taken from a yearbook depicting the front doors to Second Ward School in Charlotte, NC.

This is a letter sent out by the Patriots of North Carolina in either 1955 or 1956 asking for committed people to join their reactionary organization. With a deep fear of racial desegregation, the group formed to preserve the white social hierarchy…

This is the cover of a printed pamphlet outlining the information recommended by the Pearsall Commission. Featured on the cover is the title of the report and a brief abstract of the contents.

This is page two and three of the Pearsall Plan. Text only.