1964 West Charlotte High School NC North Carolina Yearbook African American for Sale

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1964 West Charlotte High School NC North Carolina Yearbook African American:
$125.00

1964

West Charlotte Senior High SchoolYearbook - The Lion

( Includes individual photos of all students from the 10th , 11th and 12th grades.

West Charlotte, North Carolina

Mecklenburg , University Park area.

hard bound ; about good well used condition ;inside pages have signaturesandwriting.

2nd page has tear at top/bottom.

Inside 2nd page has real vintage b/w photo glued into yearbook.

slight musty smell from storage.

Yearbook is complete.

There is actually a softcover book made in 2015 about the 50th anniversary of the class of1964.

Fifty Years Later: The West Charlotte Senior High School Class of 1964 Paperback – June 17, 2015by Edward M. Anderson Sr. (Author), Dr. Jackie S. Henderson (Editor)
Fifty Years Later: The West Charlotte Senior High School Class of 1964 provides a forum for members of this extraordinary class to share their life narratives. It identifies and lifts up all the many strong, devoted and exceptional stakeholders (parents, principal, faculty, staff, teachers, religious leaders, community and business leaders) who invested time, talent, money, blood, sweat, and tears to ensure that West Charlotte was a successful and excellent school before integration and during integration. Additionally, this book brings to life several vibrant communities that were the backbone of the caring village that supported West Charlotte with aspiring, eager, respectable families and students in their quest for a better way of life. Moreover, this book gives God the Glory for His presence throughout the lives of each of us and throughout the history of West Charlotte Senior High below taken from the internet. West Charlotte High School was founded in 1938. The original campus became Northwest School of the Arts. It moved to its current location in 1954. West Charlotte is one of the few high schools still in existence whose students were African American during the era of segregation.During the next three decades, the school became the pride of the community, and students won statewide competitions, with a strong connection between students and parents.
Beginning in the late 1960s, Swann v. Charlotte-Mecklenburg Board of Education ruled that cities had to desegregate their schools through busing, which created riots at many schools in the district, including at West Charlotte, as students from West Mecklenburg, Harding, Garinger, North Mecklenburg and Myers Park were bused to the school, starting in the fall of 1970. Over time, though, the school became nationally recognized as a model for student integration, with students and teachers coming from as far as Boston to view the success of the school. For the next 20 years, West Charlotte remained integrated until a series of court decisions stated that integration in Charlotte was a success and that busing was no longer needed.
On June 8, 2022, the current campus consisting of several buildings is scheduled to be closed and then demolished once a new building is completed next door. The former location will then become parking lots and athletic fields