Bibliography

J. Murray Atkins Library Special Collections, University of North Carolina at Charlotte manuscript collections used in this exhibit:

Carolina Panthers vertical file
Charlotte Checkers Hockey Club collection
Charlotte Hornets Baseball Team scrapbooks collection
Charlotte Knights vertical file
Charlotte O's vertical file
David "Dink" Widenhouse papers
Eddie Knox papers
Eugene Payne collection
F. Marion Redd papers
Joseph W. Grier papers
Mary Boyer postcard collection
Nebel Knitting Company collection
Pat McCrory papers
Phillip Van Every papers
Richard Vinroot papers
WBT/WBTV Corporate Records
William H. Sumner photographs

Other collections of interest include:

T. Taylor Warren papers

Rare books include:

The Speedway Record, September 19, 1927

For further reading:

Sports

Brown, Allan E.  The History of America's Speedways: Past and Present.  2nd Ed.  Comstock Park, MI:  America's Speedways, 1994.

Wood, Perry Allen.  Silent Speedways of the Carolinas.  Jefferson, NC: McFarland and Company, Inc., Publishers, 2007.

Charlotte History

Bigger, Margaret G.  You Know You're in Charlotte If...  Charlotte: A. Borough Books, 2000.

Bigger, Margaret and Betsy Webb.  You Can Tell You're A Charlottean If...  Charlotte: A. Borough Books, 1998.

Graves, William and Heather A. Smith, eds.  Charlotte, NC: The Global Evolution of a New South City.  Athens: The University of Georgia Press, 2010.

Hanchett, Thomas W.  Sorting Out the New South City: Race, Class and Urban Development in Charlotte, 1875-1975.  Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press, 1998.