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Levine Museum of the New South

The Levine Museum of the New South, is a history museum located in Charlotte, North Carolina whose exhibits focus on life in the North Carolina Piedmont after the American Civil War. The museum includes temporary and permanent exhibits on a range of Southern-related topics.[1] Founded in 1991 as the Museum of the New South, it was renamed after museum patron and Family Dollar founder Leon Levine in 2001.[2]

The museum's permanent exhibit is called "Cotton Fields to Skyscrapers: Charlotte and the Carolina Piedmont in the New South", and features period displays that reflect regional history. The displays include a one-room tenant farmer's house, a cotton mill and mill house, an African-American hospital, an early Belk department store, and a civil-rights era lunch counter. Changing exhibits focus on local culture, art and history.[3]

In March 2013, the Charlotte Museum of History announced plans to move its administrative offices to the Levine Museum.[4]

  • Entrance of Levine Museum of the New South
    Entrance of Levine Museum of the New South
  • Entrance of "Cottonfields to Skyscrapers"
    Entrance of "Cottonfields to Skyscrapers"
  • Cotton-Machine
    Cotton-Machine
  • Model of plantation
    Model of plantation
  • Welcome-Sign for President Roosevelt
    Welcome-Sign for President Roosevelt
  • Explanation-Sign
    Explanation-Sign
  • Model of Bank of America Corporate Center
    Model of Bank of America Corporate Center

In 2019, the museum had an exhibit "The Legacy of Lynching: Confronting Racial Terror in America", prepared in collaboration with the Equal Justice Initiative, who created the National Memorial for Peace and Justice.[5]

References

  1. ^ [1] An Enigmatic Land of Great Expectations, Edward Rothstein, New York Times, Feb. 12, 2012.
  2. ^ https://www.ncpedia.org/levine-museum-new-south
  3. ^ [2] Archived 2016-10-22 at the Wayback Machine Levine Museum: Cotton Fields to Skyscrapers. From 1865 to today.
  4. ^ Price, Mark (March 9, 2013). "History museum to give up its building: New director will take over the mostly shuttered Charlotte history center". The Charlotte Observer. p. 1B.
  5. ^ Arrowood, Maddy (May 31, 2019). "Exhibit traces legacy of lynching in North Carolina through the stories of victims".

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