Reconstructing Community Through Family: The Davidson Family in Huntersville, Mecklenburg County is a digital archive that examines the relationship between family memory, community history, and place through the Davidson family’s multigenerational presence in Huntersville, North Carolina. Grounded in African American Community Archives Theory, the project brings together oral history, family photographs, and government records to illuminate how Black histories are preserved through lived experience, kinship networks, and community-held knowledge. By situating family narratives within the historical landscape of Huntersville and Mecklenburg County, the archive highlights the interpretive power of family-based collections in reconstructing African American pasts, particularly where traditional archival documentation remains fragmented or incomplete.
Dr. Justice Briscoe (2026) studied this question.