@article{GENERAL,
      recid = {3244},
      title = {Systemic Racism in Mecklenburg County Government},
      address = {Charlotte (N.C.). 2021-09-01},
      number = {GENERAL},
      pages = {40 p.},
      month = {Sep},
      year = {2021},
      abstract = {In May of 2021, the Robinson-Spangler Carolina Room was  honored to receive a request from two members of the  Mecklenburg Board of County Commissioners to do historical  research. They  sought to identify, acknowledge, and  address the harm done by systemic racism in the decisions  of County government. They asked for historical background  to make clear the origins and depth of the problem. 

The  Carolina Room took on the task and produced a report. It  chronicles the lost potential, communal division, and  long-term harm that is the story of racism everywhere. It  also features some brave voices raised against it. It does  not attempt to tell the whole history of Charlotte and  Mecklenburg County. Such was not our mandate. It does,  however, tell a different side of that story, one that  emphasizes struggle and problems more than growth and  consensus.},
      url = {http://vault.cmlibrary.org/record/3244},
}