Sources

Home Page

1. Charlotte Bobcats Logo - www.footballfanatics.com
2. Charlotte Sting Logo - www.ssur.org
3. Charlotte Knights Logo - www.charlottechamber.org
4. Carolina Panthers Logo - www.profootballweekly.com
5.Charlotte Skyline -  http://www.cgi.com/cgi/html/event/media/charlotte_skyline.jpg

Demographics Page

1. General population statistics - http://www.census.gov/
2. Info on economic and gender make-up - http://factfinder.census.gov/home/saff/main.html
3. Geographic info and city facts - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charlotte,_North_Carolina

         Picture Sources:
1. Diversity builds comm. picture - http://stark.tamu.edu/web_images/diversity.jpg
2. Denisty Maps look up Charlotte at - http://factfinder.census.gov/home/saff/main.html
3. Money Picture - http://www.fco.gov.uk/Files/kimage/Travel-Money.jpg

Issues Page

1. Info on MS-13 - http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/7244879/site/newsweek/
2. Info on Mara Salvatrucha - http://www.wikipedia.org/
3. Info on "taking back neighborhoods" movement - http://www.academy.umd.edu/publications/Boundary/CaseStudies/bcscharlotte.htm
4. Info on "racial fragmentation & urban sprawl - http://www.academy.umd.edu/publications/Boundary/CaseStudies/bcscharlotte.htm
5. Info on Charlotte's use as a drug trafficking port - http://www.usdoj.gov/ndic/pubs3/3690/index.htm
6. DEA report on Charlotte - http://www.dea.gov/pubs/states/northcarolina.html

          Picture Sources:

7. Neighborhood issues picture - http://www.hcst.net/~edelmann/images/j0295305.gif
8. Fragmentation and Urban Sprawl Picture - http://pointofview.bluehighways.com/images/sprawl.jpg
9. MS-13 tattoo picture - http://www.martyrdomoperations.com/
10. Drugs and paraphernalia  picture - http://www2.rnw.nl/assets/images/Drugs_20011207.jpg
11. United States emblem - http://clipart.usscouts.org/library/BSA_Boy_Scout_Ranks/Eagle_Scout/birds_and_stuff/US_eagle_symbol_bw.gif

Government Page

1. Info. on gov. structure/members  - www.charmeck.org/living/home.htm
2. Info. on manager/council government - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Council-manager
3. Info. on history of Charlotte's government - http://www.academy.umd.edu/publications/Boundary/CaseStudies/bcscharlotte.htm
4. Info. on Charlotte's minority population numbers and population densities.  Look up Charlotte at -http://factfinder.census.gov/home/saff/main.html

          Picture Sources:

5. "We the people" - http://www.sardisroads.com/government/government.jpg
6. Government member photos - www.charmeck.org/living/home.htm
7. Minority representation picture - http://www.mcg.edu/news/beeper/Jan19/Images/MLK06/hands-web.jpg

History Page

          
1. The Charlotte-Mecklenburg Story: Historical Timeline - www.cmstory.org/history/timeline/default.asp
2. Growth of Charlotte: A History - www.cmhpg.org/educhargrowth.html
3. Charlotte - www.infoplease.com/ipa/A0108490.html
4. Frommers: Charlotte - www.frommers.com/destinations/charlotte/1785010001.html
5. Britannica Student Encyclopedia: Charlotte - www.search.ed.com/ebi/article-9273610
6. Cities of the United States (2006), 5th edition, Volume 1, pages 363-374

            Picture Sources:

7. Andrew Jackson - www.senate.gov/artandhistory/art/artifact/Painting_32_0018.htm
8. Nat Turner - www.cara-seattle.org/bpp_teachin.html
9. Edward Dilworth Latta - www.cmhpf.org/neighborhoods/Dilworth-early.htm
10. Signing of Declaration of Independence - www.andrewcusack.com/blog/2007/07/index.php
11. Lord General Charles Cornwallis - www.columbia.edu/itc/mealac/pritchett/00routesdata/1700_1799/companyrule/cornwallis/cornwallis.htm
12. Jefferson Davis - www.redstone.army.mil/history/integrate/davis2.jpg
13. Cotton Jin - www.julianrubin.com/bigten/whitneycottongin.html
14. Queen Charlotte Sophia of Mecklenburg-Stelitz - http://www.cmstory.org/history/timeline/default.asp?tp=3&ev=0 

This page was last updated: Thursday April 27, 2006