This project tells the story of Charlotte’s Brooklyn neighborhood, once one of the largest and most vibrant Black communities in the Carolinas.
Displaced by urban renewal, its memory lives on through its community members.
Listen to Charlotte-based spoken word artist and poet Hannah Hasan’s piece about Brooklyn.
about this project
We offer guided group experiences to K-12 and adult groups using this project.
This content has been developed from Levine Museum of the New South’s 2019 exhibition Brooklyn: A City Within A City and 2021 KnowCLT app.
Museum Staff: Cliff Whitfield, Franky Abbott
Past Contributors: Eric Scott, Willie Griffin
Poetry: Hannah Hasan
Storytellers: Kelly Alexander, Jr., J. C. Cousar, Peggie Cousar, Karen Dixon, Arthur Griffin, David Haygood, Doretha Leak, Clara Lewis, Frank Manago, Annette Mason, James McClellan, Doris Williams, Clarence “Vic” Wilson
Partners: Charlotte Mecklenburg Library, J. Murrey Atkins Library at UNC Charlotte, James B. Duke Memorial Library at Johnson C. Smith University, The Brooklyn Collective
