If your driver's license or ID has Davidson, NC in your address, you can obtain a library card with borrowing privileges at the E.H. Little Library.
Community patrons are allowed 10 books at a time for a 3 week borrowing period. Ask to register at the Information Desk in the lobby today!
Reeves Temple AME Zion Church (Davidson, NC)
Shared Stories is a collection of photographs, oral histories, and records documenting the lives and contributions of African-Americans in the greater Cornelius, Davidson, and Huntersville, NC area. To view materials from Shared Stories, please visit the pages linked below.
Enoch Donaldson, who worked as a janitor at Davidson
Always Part of the Fabric is a short film created to show an overview of the ways African-Americans shaped Davidson College from its beginnings to the present day. The documentary is organized chronologically and divided into 4 main time periods:
1. 1837 – 1865
2. 1865 – 1900
3. 1900 – 1962
4. 1962 - present
To view the film, please click here. To view the accompanying textual supplement, please click here.
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A New Voyage to Carolina by
This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages.
Memories of Davidson College by
Also available digitally through HathiTrust; follow catalog link to access
The Catawba Nation by
In this reconstruction of the history of the Catawba Indians, Charles M. Hudson first considers the "external history" of the Catawba peoples, based on reports by such outsiders as explorers, missionaries, and government officials. [..] This external history is then contrasted with the folk history of the Catawbas, the past as they believe it to have been.
*Only available to view via appointment
Davidson: A History of the Town from 1835 until 1937 by 
A History of Davidson College by 
David Played a Harp by
David Played a Harp is an autobiography from a bi-racial, self-educated, retired barber, now 96 years old. He, Ralph W. Johnson, was in the midst of the survival struggles of one of nation's best known small college towns, Davidson, NC. His shop, one of the largest between Richmond and Atlanta, was the target of a student picketing which challeged state law exempting personal service shops from the civil rights act. In an effort to save his business his became, as far as he knew, the first integrated shop in the South, leading it to demise. He writes personally of the crises changes of the 20th century in education, race relations, business opportunity. Social and political upheaval are related by a master raconteur, practiced with half century standing by a barber chair, offering a lilt of hope in gut-wrenching times unbelievable today. Johnson deftly lifts the real people of Davidson out of the past, off the pages and the reader travels with them, sometimes laughing, often crying but always with heartstrings tangled in Jim Crow's ugly destructive mesh. The journey leads from Davidson's dirt main street of 1906 to Davidson an interstate pass-by of today in a history lover's must read.-----
Catawba Nation by
The Catawba one of the few Native American communities who remained in the Carolinas after the notorious Trail of Tears have a rich and fascinating history that can be dated to 2400 BC. Once the inhabitants of a large swath of land that covered parts of North and South Carolina, most Catawba now live on a reservation in York County, South Carolina. In Catawba Nation: Treasures in History, Thomas J. Blumer seeks to preserve and present the history of this resilient people.
*Only available to view via in-person appointment
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