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Title: Roger A. Stephens oral history interview, 1979 October 23
Creator: Stephens, Roger A. (Roger Albert), 1905-1991
Date Created: 1979-10-23
Subjects--Topical: Depressions, Street-railroads, Amusements, Fires, City and town life
Description: Roger A. Stephens recalls his memories of growing up in Atlanta, Georgia during the early twentieth century and life after moving to Charlotte, North Carolina in 1922. He describes selling newspapers as a boy and his career working in the freight ...

Title: Newell Gymnasium group oral history interview, 1993 January 16
Creator: Austin, Ernest B., 1926-2014
Date Created: 1993-01-16
Subjects--Topical: Basketball, Basketball for women, Basketball for girls, Basketball--Social aspects, Rural schools, Country life, Gymnasiums, School sports, Depressions
Description: A group of former Newell High School students, including Ernest B. Austin, Lloyd Cochran, Russell G. Faulk, Francis Freeman, Vera Kimbrell, and several unnamed speakers, discuss the role basketball played in Newell, an unincorporated farming commu...

Title: Benjamin F. Wyant Jr. oral history interview, 1994 November 2
Creator: Wyant, Benjamin F. (Benjamin Frank), Jr., 1920-1998
Date Created: 1994-11-02
Subjects--Topical: Depressions, African Americans--Employment, Industrial relations, Political and social views, Political parties, Segregation
Description: Benjamin F. Wyant, Jr. recounts his memories of growing up in the Charlotte neighborhood of Dilworth and of his forty-three year career at Duke Power Company. In particular, he recalls working as a boy at his father's family business during the ch...

Title: Julia Perryman oral history interview, 1997 September 26
Creator: Perryman, Julia Royals, 1926-2009
Date Created: 1997-09-26
Subjects--Topical: Depressions, Families--Economic aspects, Families--Social life and customs, Nursing, Poliomyelitis
Description: Julia Perryman recalls her experience growing up in Thomasville, North Carolina in the 1930s and 1940s. She discusses the difficult financial hardships that her family endured after her father was left paralyzed following an illness and could no l...