The Charlotte News

February 7-21, 1937

Feature Series on Slums

By Cameron Shipp and Others

"At Charlotte J. E. Dowd, one of the owners of the Charlotte News, took over the editorial reins of that once stodgy journal and made of it one of the most lively, intelligent, and enterprising in Dixie. In 1937 this paper, through a member of its staff, Cameron Shipp, carried out the most uncompromising and thorough survey of local slum conditions ever carried out in a Southern town."—The Mind of the South, Book III, Chapter III, "Of The Great Blight—and New Quandaries", Section 9, pp. 373-74, 1941 ed.

News articles and editorials, entire series or separate pages: February 7, 1937; February 8, page 8, editorial page; February 9—page 1, page 2, page 3, page 4, editorial page; February 10—page 1, page 2; February 11 (three pages); February 12 (three pages); February 14 (four pages); February 15 (four pages); February 16 editorial page; February 18; February 21, editorial page.

 


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