Sat, Oct 05
|Historic Grace AME Zion Church
Virtual Black Charlotte : Opening Exhibit Gala
The Virtual Black Charlotte Project, an online initiative recreating African American communities dismantled by urban renewal, will be launched on Saturday, October 5, from 5 to 8 pm at Historic Grace AME Zion Church in Charlotte, NC.
Time & Location
Oct 05, 2024, 5:00 PM – 8:00 PM
Historic Grace AME Zion Church, 219 S Brevard St, Charlotte, NC 28202, USA
About the event
Welcome to the Virtual Black Charlotte Project Launch!
Johnson C. Smith University, in partnership with the National Second Ward Alumni Foundation and Duke University, will unveil their immersive website to the public at Historic Grace AME Zion Church on Brevard Street (one of the four remaining structures from the Brooklyn neighborhood). This interactive digital project uses augmented reality, 3-D modeling, and GPS mapping to recreate African American neighborhoods lost to urban renewal and highway construction in Charlotte. The rich 2D and 3D features are given context by historic images and documents from the oral histories in which residents tell their story of a vibrant community that was erased in the 1960s and 1970s. This in-person event will feature presentations by President Arthur Griffin of the National Second Ward Alumni Foundation, and project team members Historian Dr. Tekla Ali Johnson and JCSU Library Director Brandon Lunsford, and the Duke University Digital…