"Levine Museum of the New South forces its audience to face the past. The exhibits are engaging and occasionally controversial but always thought-provoking." Charlotte magazine
This traveling exhibit from the Manuscript, Archives, and Rare Book Library at Emory University, explores the history of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference following 1968. It focuses primarily on four broad programmatic areas and shows how the SCLC expanded its mission in the decades following the iconic Civil Rights Movement of the 1960s.
The first exhibit to commemorate the history of Lebanese immigrants who have made North Carolina their home since the 1880s, Cedars in the Pines was researched and developed by the Moise A. Khayrallah Center for Lebanese Diaspora Studies at N.C. State University.
The Charlotte area -- epicenter of soda pop? Yes! Historian Dr. Tom Hanchett shares the history and leads a soft-drink tasting – both long-time local brands and also some new arrivals from Mexico and Asia that are now part of today’s South.
Levine Museum is one of more than 2,000 museums across America to offer free admission to military personnel and their families this summer in collaboration with the National Endowment for the Arts, Blue Star Families, and the Department of Defense
On Friday, April 24, 2015, forty-seven area residents will officially become U.S. citizens and take the Oath of Allegiance at a naturalization ceremony hosted by Levine Museum of the New South. The individuals are originally from thirty-one different countries.
Emily Zimmern, president of Levine Museum of the New South, will retire in November of this year, after two decades leading one of Charlotte’s premier cultural and civic institutions.