Barringer Academic Center
Barringer elementary school will soon become Charles H. Parker Academic Center, another step in Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools quest to replacing names that honor white supremacy with those marking Black history.
After the racial reckoning of last summer, Superintendent Earnest Winston announced he would identify and
Barringer Academic Center in west Charlotte touted the Barringer family’s role in developing that part of town. But
a historian’s research showed family members were active in the white supremacy movements of the 19th and 20th centuries. Charles H. Parker
A naming committee chose to honor Parker instead. He was born into slavery in 1844 and died free in 1939, having developed homes, churches and a school in the West Boulevard area. According to a biography provided to the school board, he helped create Moore’s Sanctuary A.M.E Zion Church, Amay James Presbyterian Church and Plato Price School for Black children.
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