Pamela Grundy

Pamela Grundy is a writer, historian, exhibit curator, butterfly gardener and educational activist who has lived in Charlotte since 1994. You can learn more about her work at colorandcharacter.org and at shamrockgardens.org.

Black Lives Matter
Pamela GrundyFebruary 23, 2022
Author’s Note: ‘Legacy: Three Centuries of Black History in Charlotte’
The three men gaze out over the vehicles speeding past on South Brevard Street. Their dark suits and stiff white…
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Opinion
Pamela GrundyNovember 11, 2021
A Follow-Up on Grief and the Faceless Nature of Facebook
Tip Top Daily Market proprietor Jason Michel saw me as soon as I pushed open the door of his establishment…
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Opinion
Pamela GrundyOctober 26, 2021
Adventures in Bureaucracy: The Bradford Pears of Shamrock Gardens
The crazed, broken trunks of dying Bradford pear trees emerge from the ground at awkward angles, like wraiths struggling to…
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Opinion
Pamela GrundyOctober 13, 2021
ESSAY: Grief and the Faceless Nature of Facebook
Do not go gentle into that good night. Rage, rage against the dying of the light. The message arrived September 23,…
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Black History of Charlotte
Pamela GrundyJune 7, 2021
Black History of Charlotte: Slavery & Revolution Part 2
The following is a continuation of Pamela Grundy’s original five-part series Black History of Charlotte and touches on the treatment…
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Black History of Charlotte
Pamela GrundyMay 24, 2021
Black History of Charlotte: Slavery and Revolution
The following is a continuation of Pamela Grundy’s original five-part series Black History of Charlotte and touches on the treatment…
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News & Opinion
Pamela GrundyMay 20, 2021
OPINION: Rethinking the Mecklenburg Declaration of Independence
On the morning of May 20, 1963, a group of Johnson C. Smith University students set out on the two-mile…
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Editor's Notes
Pamela GrundyRyan PitkinMay 4, 2021
Editor’s Note: Meck Dec Day and Charlotte’s Racist History
In our latest News feature, Ryan Pitkin talks to local author and social entrepreneur Justin Jones-Fosu about diversity and inclusion,…
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News & Opinion
Pamela GrundyOctober 12, 2020
‘Fragile Democracy’ Tells of Struggle for Voting Rights in NC
In the fall of 1936, Franklin Roosevelt was running for his second term as president, and Elizabeth Randolph could not…
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Black History of Charlotte
Pamela GrundySeptember 25, 2020
Black History of Charlotte Part 5: The Battle Over Desegregation in Charlotte
The following is the final chapter in a five-part history of Black culture in Charlotte, and touches on desegregation in…
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Black History of Charlotte
Pamela GrundySeptember 11, 2020
Black History of Charlotte Part 4: How Redlining, Blockbusting and ‘Urban Renewal’ Victimized a Community
The following is the fourth in a five-part history of Black culture in Charlotte, looking at the history of urban…
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Black History of Charlotte
Pamela GrundyAugust 31, 2020
Black History of Charlotte: Women of the Charlotte Sit-Ins
The following is a special addition to our five-part Black History of Charlotte series, to be read alongside Part 3. …
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Black Lives Matter
Pamela GrundyAugust 31, 2020
Black History of Charlotte Part 3: Civil Rights in the New South
The following is the third in a five-part history of Black culture in Charlotte. Read Part 1 and Part 2,…
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News & Opinion
Pamela GrundyAugust 13, 2020
Black History of Charlotte Part 2: The Building of Brooklyn
The following is the second in a five-part history of Black culture in Charlotte, looking at the construction of Brooklyn,…
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News & Opinion
Pamela GrundyJuly 31, 2020
Black History of Charlotte Part 1: The White Supremacist Response to Reconstruction
The following is the first in a five-part history of Black culture in Charlotte. Stay tuned for the parts in…
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