The Registry

MemoryWorkers.

A living directory of the people and organizations preserving Black and Brown memory across Charlotte. Filter by the work they do.

Showing 7 records

Storytellers

Melanotion

Independent Studio

Cultural storytelling and memory preservation centered on Black community heritage across the Carolinas.

Institutional Archives

UNCC Atkins Library Archives

UNC Charlotte

Special collections and university archives supporting community-led documentation projects across Charlotte.

Neighborhood Historians

West End Historical Society

Neighborhood collective

Documenting the displaced and surviving histories of Charlotte's historic Black west-side neighborhoods.

Genealogists & Family Researchers

Queen City Roots

Independent

Tracing Carolina Black family lineages through migration records, church rolls, and oral history.

Church Historians

Friendship Missionary Archive

Friendship Missionary Baptist

Stewarding more than a century of congregational records, programs, and photographs.

Cemetery & Preservation

Pinewood Cemetery Project

Volunteer-led

Mapping, restoring, and re-narrating one of Charlotte's oldest historically Black burial grounds.

Artists & Creatives

Studio Brushwork

Artist collective

Visual artists translating archival material into murals, zines, and public installations.

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