Julia’s Coffee Shop is named after one of Charlotte’s pioneering public servants, Julia Maulden. As the first volunteer executive director, she helped get Habitat for Humanity started in Charlotte. She not only worked on the first Charlotte Habitat home, she also brought Jimmy Carter to the Optimist Park Neighborhood for a fourteen house Build-a-Thon. Julia grew up poor in the segregated South, borrowing and working her way through Greensboro Women’s College during the Depression...
To read more about Julia go here: http://www.juliascoffee.org/Julia.html
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