Introduction According to historian Thomas W. Hanchett, Charlotte spent the early 1980’s studying its pre-world war two neighborhood for the Charlottes- Mecklenburg historic landmarks commission. Hanchett spent months walking the streets of places like Dilworth, Middleville, Washington Heights, and North Charlotte. Regarding charlotte his main concern was to research why most of the charlotte’s cotton mills are built on the edge of the town, the impact of the southern values on the Charlotteans including racial have upon the growth patterns of Charlotte, why most of the wealthy Charlotteans reside in the southeastern quadrant of the city (Hanchett, n.d). According to Hanchett (n.d), Charlotte, like most of the southern urban centers,”l looked like a scattering of salt pepper.” The rich and poor, black and white lived, store owners and day laborers, says Hanchett frequently lived side by side in the same block. For most of its early history up to 1850 charlotte was a preindustrial city in which the social and economic elite controlled the political life and according to Hanchette, ”the urban landscape echoed that continuity”, (sorting out the new south city 1875-1975). Throughout the century of mid-1870s to the mid-1970s, the Charlotteans continually redefined their notion of a good place to live in. Populism threatened the continuity of the traditional social pyramid and to meet the challenges city fathers began to divide the city up into social and racial orders to ensure that the whites and the blacks would have difficulty overcoming the physical space to ever endanger white elites again. White business leaders came to view the city as a place for commerce and the suburbs of a place for living the good life. Charlotte’s history makes it evident that across the 20 th century, there was vast racism since the whites and the blacks could not live together making racial segregation thrive amongst them. The racism also was evident in the political leadership whereby the blacks regularly elected African Americans to the Board of Aldermen until 1893. The wealthy whites who were mostly small-scale merchants controlled charlotte’s politics and economy since the arrival of the railroad in October 1852. Despite having political leadership the whites were not contented by living side by side with the blacks and they felt to retreat into affluent residential districts and separate themselves from their poorer neighbors. Most of their daily activities made them interact i.e. the blacks and the whites since their homes, craft shops, stores, and livery stables were all mixed. This shows that their leadership was not effective since they had the mandate to improve the living conditions of the poor considering the fact that they controlled the politics and the economic activities of Charlotte (Hanchett, n.d). Impact of Charlotte on Public policy Public policy refers to the system of laws, regulatory measures, course of action, and funding priorities concerning a given topic promulgated by the government entity or its representatives. Public policy is supposed to accelerate change within society. This means that the leadership at the federal and local levels should prior