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Library card bridges student to research across the miles

Accessing e-books and digital resources with a Charlotte Mecklenburg Library card helped a student continue her education from miles away.

Magazine excerpt from the Charlotte Observer in 1918 about the Spanish Flu

The 1918 Spanish Flu: Is history repeating itself?

Charlotte Mecklenburg Library's Robinson-Spangler Carolina Room explores the history of the 1918 Spanish Flu, its impact, controversy and the toll it took on Charlotte.

Access thousands of military records and historical documents with Fold3 Library Edition, now available from the Library

Access decades of military records and history with Fold3 Library Edition, now available from the Library

Local professional actresses to portray real-life heroes and heroines of the suffragist movement in "Failure is Impossible."

Engage2020 presents a theatrical experience: "Failure is Impossible"

“Failure is Impossible” comes to Charlotte Mecklenburg Library in a centennial celebration of the 19th Amendment and women winning the right to vote.

Floats from a Meck Day Parade, Courtesy of the Robinson-Spangler Carolina Room, Charlotte Mecklenburg Library.

How a suffrage parade float attracted so much attention

This month, our nation celebrates the 100th anniversary of the ratification of the 19th Amendment. Learn more about the Women's Suffrage movement in Mecklenburg County and North Carolina with the Robinson-Spangler Carolina Room.

Women picketing for voting, courtesy of Getty Images.

The complicated history of the women's suffrage movement

The Robinson-Spangler Carolina Room details the good, the bad and the ugly history of the U.S. women's suffrage movement and the important voting progress and policy changes made up to today and Charlotte Mecklenburg Library's current Engage 2020 program.