Harding High School

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Title

Harding High School

Subject

Educational Architecture

Description

This school was made famous in 1957 when Dorothy Counts, the first African American enrolled at the school, went to school and was met with angry crowds. The national attention paid to this incident led the Charlotte community to change their attitudes towards school segregation.

Creator

Martin E. Boyer

Source

North Carolina State University Digital Archives Beaux Art to Modernism

Publisher

North Carolina State Archives in conjunction with North Carolina State University and University of North Carolina at Charlotte J. Murray Atkins Library

Date

ca. 1920

Type

Digitized floor plan