The first of five segregated theaters to be built in Charlotte during the era of Jim Crow. Opened as the Rex Theatre in 1930, it was renamed Lincoln Theatre in 1933 and operated until 1961. [Source: Cinema Treasures website, viewed April 11, 2022]
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Interviews, photographs, and oral history project files chronicling African-American life in the American South with a particular focus on the era of legal segregation and its...
