Harvey Gantt
Commitment to job, family and Charlotte
...Chamber in 2005 and helped lure the NASCAR Hall of Fame. Also co-chaired, with former Mayor Harvey Gantt, a business group that brainstormed how to improve Charlotte-Mecklenburg...
Join effort to shape uptown
The steering committee is chaired by Observer Publisher Ann Caulkins and former Charlotte Mayor Harvey Gantt. Nearly 300 people attended the first community workshop in October.
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White filmmaker earns prestigious Gantt Award
...named for black trailblazer By ADAM PARKER - The (Charleston) Post and Courier It was 1963 and Harvey Gantt had finally succeeded in becoming the first black student at Clemson...
High-tech and light on artifacts
...Donaldson Air Force Base (Greenville was the "Air Lift Capital of the World" during World War II) and Harvey Gantt (the first black student to attend Clemson University in 1963 and,...
LeBron James tips sacred cows
...to effect positive change in minority communities. Jordan, when asked to support former Charlotte mayor Harvey Gantt, an African-American running against Jesse Helms for the U.S. Senate,...
3 Democrats hope to unseat Burr
...run for office himself, but he has been a fundraiser and worked behind the scenes for the likes of Harvey Gantt and Erskine Bowles. He helped raise money for Barack Obama's 2008...
Parade, Turkey Trot and ice
...14 bands and 37 floats, also are scheduled to participate. Grand marshal is former Charlotte mayor Harvey Gantt. If you can't get uptown to see the parade in person, it will be...
Clemson President Barker faces questions on on rankings, diversity
...past doesn't feel right. Barker said Clemson's history didn't stop with Ben Tillman, because Harvey Gantt (the first black student at Clemson) entered this building and changed all...
"He gave me some sense of what Charlotte politics was all about," Gantt says. "He was a political wonk who knew where all the skeletons were buried in the Democratic Party."
Mel Watt, Harvey Gantt celebrate Foxx win Charlotte Observer | 4 months ago
Harvey Gantt
...in architecture with Honors from Clemson and a Master's degree in City Planning from MIT. From 1974 until 1983, Gantt served on the Charlotte City Council. He was then elected and...
Mel Watt, Harvey Gantt celebrate Foxx win
...usually turned to politics. "We talked about it like mothers give milk to their babies," Gantt says. Gantt, first elected mayor in 1983, says Foxx relied mostly on more...
Anthony Foxx's mayoral lesson plans
...your ground. Mayor-elect Anthony Foxx, right, can learn much from former mayors such as Harvey Gantt, left. Now that you've won, Mr. Foxx, you surely won't lack for advice. As...
Foxx wins race for Charlotte mayor
...vote over Republican John Lassiter. He's the first Democrat and African American elected mayor since Harvey Gantt. "It's been 22 years since we've had this moment," he told cheering...
