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    Final crossing: This 1959 photo documents the last ferry crossing the Catawba River at Van Wyck, S.C. Ferry operator J. H. Brown transports a car as a father and son watch.
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    Christmas in the foothills: Santa visits children in the Wilkes County town of Mulberry in 1970.
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    Sunday in Blue Heaven, 1960: The Blue Heaven area was demolished during urban renewal.
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    Dorothy Counts: Sturkey's most famous photo shows white students jeering as Dorothy Counts integrates Harding High School in 1957.
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    The Klan: Two men look on as Ku Klux Klan members march in in Salisbury in 1964.
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    KKK women: Women of the Ku Klux Klan listen to a Klan leader speak near Morganton in April 1965.
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    LBJ in North Carolina: In May 1964, President Lyndon Johnson visited with tenant farmer William Marlow and his family outside Rocky Mount to publicize his War on Poverty. N.C. Gov. Terry Sanford sits to his right.
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    In the 1950s, Saturday night dances in Charlotte's Park Center were known for rocking music and hot dances.
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    By 1956, Elvis Presley was on his way to becoming a rock 'n' roll phenomenon. He appeared at two Charlotte locations in 1956. The most expensive ticket? $1.50.
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    Construction workers did a final inspection of the last seven and half miles of the Blue Ridge Parkway in the summer of 1987. Work on the Parkway began in 1935. The double-S curve Linn Cove Viaduct on the east side of Grandfather Mountain became an engineering first and the highlight of the 469-mile parkway through Virginia and North Carolina.
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    Homelessness: Growth brought big-city problems to Charlotte, including homelessness. Sturkey shot this photo of Willis Ballard in the mid-1980s. Ballard lived in alleyways in this movable box, made from a wheeled clothes cart.
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    Dilworth sack race: Children line up for a sack race in the early 1970s at the Dilworth Jubilee neighborhood festival.
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    Urban renewal: In this 1976 photo, a man salvages lumber following demolition of homes in Charlotte's Third Ward neighborhood.
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    The now-defunct Coffee Cup restaurant, located in Third Ward in Charlotte, was one of the first places where black and white people could sit down together, be cordial with each other and enjoy a good home-cooked meal.
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    The cover of Don Sturkey's book of photos.
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