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Title: Jonathan Scoggin oral history interview, 2004 November 20
Creator: Scoggin, Jonathan D., 1947-
Date Created: 2004-11-20
Subjects--Topical: Racism, Race discrimination, White supremacy movements
Description: Jonathan Scoggin, son of South Carolina Ku Klux Klan Grand Dragon Robert E. Scoggin, describes his life and his father's involvement with the KKK. Mr. Scoggin remembers his father as a strict disciplinarian with entrenched opinions who saw the Kla...

Title: Loy H. Witherspoon oral history interview 5, 2010 May 25
Creator: Witherspoon, Loy H., 1930-2017
Date Created: 2010-05-25
Subjects--Topical: Religion--Study and teaching (Higher), Education, Higher, Universities and colleges, Universities and colleges--Administration, Public universities and colleges--Religion
Description: In this second of seven interviews given by Loy Witherspoon and conducted by Christina Wright, Dr. Witherspoon describes his time attending Boston University for his PhD in the New Testament, his first academic job at Dakota Wesleyan University, a...

Title: Loy H. Witherspoon oral history interview 9, 2010 June 29
Creator: Witherspoon, Loy H., 1930-2017
Date Created: 2010-06-29
Subjects--Topical: Education, Higher, Universities and colleges, Public universities and colleges--Administration, Public universities and colleges--Planning, African Americans--Civil rights, College students--Religious life, Public universities and colleges--Libraries
Description: In this sixth of seven interviews given by Loy Witherspoon and conducted by Christina Wright, Dr. Witherspoon discusses faculty governance at UNC Charlotte and how it changed from when he began employment with the university in 1964 through the ea...

Title: Madelyn Wilson oral history interview, 2002 February 2
Creator: Wilson, Madelyn Joyce S., 1953-
Date Created: 2002-02-01
Subjects--Topical: African American neighborhoods, African American families, African Americans--Social conditions, African Americans--Segregation, Race relations, Segregation in education, School integration, School integration--Public opinion, Busing for school integration
Description: Madelyn Wilson describes her experiences growing up in Charlotte, North Carolina, particularly as a student in the Charlotte-Mecklenburg school system as it underwent the process of integration during the late 1960s and early 1970s. She explains h...

Title: Marion Johnson oral history interview, 2009 February 25
Creator: Johnson, Marion Thomas
Date Created: 2009-02-25
Subjects--Topical: Motorsports, Stock car racing, Racetracks (Automobile racing), Farm life, Automobile racing--accidents, Automobiles, Racing--Design and construction, Automobile racing managers, Automobile racing drivers, Flags
Description: Marion Johnson discusses his career as a flagman for stock car races, spanning the 1950s to the 1990s. He began his career working at dirt tracks throughout the state of North Carolina. Mr. Johnson also served as a flagman for NASCAR races, includ...

Title: Mary Poe and Delores Giles oral history interview, 2007 April 5
Creator: Poe, Mary, 1945-
Date Created: 2007-04-05
Subjects--Topical: African Americans--Segregation, African American schools, African American neighborhoods, African American churches, African American business enterprises, Amusements, Urban renewal
Description: Mary Poe and Delores Giles share their memories of growing up and living in the Brooklyn neighborhood of Charlotte, North Carolina, also known as Second Ward. They talk about attending Second Ward High School, school sports and activities, and the...

Title: Peggy Scoggin Holland oral history interview 2, 2005 July 26
Creator: Holland, Peggy Scoggin, 1957-
Date Created: 2005-07-26
Subjects--Topical: White supremacy movements, Anti-communist movements, Right-wing extremists, Political persecution, People with disabilities--Family relationships, Prisoners, Prisoners--Employment
Description: In this second interview, mortgage bank accountant Peggy Scoggin Holland defends her father Robert Scoggin, a former Grand Dragon of the Ku Klux Klan (KKK). Mrs. Holland begins by describing her father's work history, time in the Navy, and views o...

Title: Sidney Freeman oral history interview 1, 2003 May 21
Creator: Freeman, Sidney L.
Date Created: 2003-05-21
Subjects--Topical: Civil rights movements, Civil rights demonstrations, Civil rights, Segregation, Discrimination in education, School integration, Education--Political aspects, Trials, litigation, etc., Equality, Race relations, Racism, College teachers, Unitarian churches--Clergy
Description: Rev. Dr. Sidney L. Freeman, the longtime minister of the Unitarian Universalist Church of Charlotte (UUCC), recounts his involvement in the city's civil rights movement. Originally from Wisconsin, Dr. Freeman moved to Charlotte in 1957 to take the...

Title: Terry Holland and Emil Parker oral history interview, 1993 June 6
Creator: Holland, Terry, 1942-
Date Created: 1993-06-10
Subjects--Topical: Basketball, Basketball--Coaching, Basketball coaches, College sports, College sports--Recruiting, Basketball teams, Basketball players, Academic achievement
Description: Terry Holland and Emil Parker talk about the rise of basketball at Davidson College in Davidson, North Carolina. Mr. Holland discusses playing on the Davidson team while "Lefty" Driesell was coach during the 1960s, and describes how Coach Driesell...