Morris Donald photographs: Color snapshot of theater building front: "Rex - when it was vaudeville. Lincoln when talkies came out", before 1961

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The first of five segregated theaters to be built in Charlotte during the era of Jim Crow. Opened as the Rex Theatre in 1930, it was renamed Lincoln Theatre in 1933 and operated until 1961. [Source: Cinema Treasures website, viewed April 11, 2022]

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