Historian Tom Hanchett is presenting free monthly history programs at Aldersgate Senior Living Community, 3800 Shamrock Drive.
These programs are open to the community.
Tom Hanchett is a community historian in Charlotte, consulting with community groups and with Levine Museum of the New South. Previously he served as Staff Historian for 16 years at Levine Museum where he curated the permanent exhibition Cotton Fields to Skyscrapers (named best in the Southeast by the South East Museums Conference), and a string of national-award-winning temporary exhibitions including COURAGE about the Carolina roots of the Brown v Board Civil Rights case.
Tom’s writings range widely on urban history and Southern culture.
He’s a pretty good fiddle player too!
On Wednesday, August 8th, 2018, from 6:30 p.m. to 7:30 p.m., he will present a talk, Brooklyn to Biddleville:
Look back at Charlotte’s impressive African American “city within a city,” the Brooklyn neighborhood where today’s Government Center now stands. Learn about its still-extant counterpart, Biddlevile around Johnson C. Smith University. And hear about exciting developments now underway in both places.
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