Walking Through Charlotte’s Past
Clip: 10/1/2025 | 1m 45sVideo has Closed Captions
Jimmie Kirkpatrick recalls Charlotte’s Black community of the 1960s.
While revisiting his childhood neighborhoods in Charlotte with his son, Jimmie Kirkpatrick remembers the vibrant Black community of the 1960s and the changes that followed.
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Walking Through Charlotte’s Past
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While revisiting his childhood neighborhoods in Charlotte with his son, Jimmie Kirkpatrick remembers the vibrant Black community of the 1960s and the changes that followed.
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Learn Moreabout PBS online sponsorship(soft music) - Every time we come back to Charlotte, it's the tour.
It's the what used to be here tour, here's what we did back in the day.
To hear him describe vibrant black communities, it's very clear that when he looks around, he sees that and he doesn't see what's there now.
- The Samaritan Hospital.
- You were born here, right?
- Yep, 74 years ago.
- The erasure of the culture, the literal bulldozing of neighborhoods and communities, it makes me really sad.
- Second Ward High School opened as Mecklenburg County's first black high school in 1923.
- Oh yeah.
That's cool.
- Wanna get closer?
- Yeah.
Oh wow.
Dear Second Ward.
This is incredible.
Had an English class over there.
This is beautiful.
Beautiful.
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Reckoning with a Painful Legacy of Enslavement
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Clip: 10/1/2025 | 1m 49s | Jimmie Kirkpatrick confronts his family’s history of enslavement and his path to healing. (1m 49s)
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