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pats.app.jpg
This is a membership application for the Patriots of North Carolina. Written on the application is a statement of belief, space to input personal information, and a place to donate funds to the organization.

Stoplight.jpg
This image displays the cover of a booklet printed in 1959 in response to the threat of the Pearsall Plan in North Carolina. A stoplight appears on the left side of the cover.

table10.jpg
This is a graph prepared by Dr. Martin Jenkins for the NAACP in his report on the state of inequality in Charlotte schools in 1948. This graph depicts physical inequality, such as the presence of a gymnasium at each white school but not at the black…

hodges.jpg
This is a photograph of Luther Hodges, governor of North Carolina through much of the 1950s. He is seen here sitting down and speaking at an event.

NAACPsupportsFederalAidFor.jpg
This is the cover of an NAACP pamphlet advocating for federal aid to only go to schools who have complied with the orders to desegregate schools.

patriots.charter.jpg
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."

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

table5.jpg
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.

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

patriots.letter.jpg
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…
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