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Title: Ben E. Douglas oral history interview 2, 1979 May 23
Creator: Douglas, Ben E. (Ben Elbert), 1894-1981
Date Created: 1979-05-23
Subjects--Topical: Depressions, Municipal government, Urban transportation, Airports--Planning, City planning
Description: Ben Douglas discusses his tenure as mayor of Charlotte, North Carolina from 1935 to 1941. He discusses the structure of city government in the 1920s and explains that he was the first Charlotte mayor to be directly elected by voters. He describes ...

Title: Mattie Marshall oral history interview 1, 2015 October 31
Creator: Marshall, Mattie, 1948-
Date Created: 2015-10-31
Subjects--Topical: Community development, Gentrification, Urban renewal, Urban transportation, African American families, African American neighborhoods
Description: In this interview, Mattie Marshall, president of the Historic Washington Heights Neighborhood Association in Charlotte North Carolina, discusses her origins as a sharecropper's daughter in Georgia, her family's migration north to New Yor...

Title: Mattie Marshall oral history interview 2, 2015 November 13
Creator: Marshall, Mattie, 1948-
Date Created: 2015-11-13
Subjects--Topical: African American neighborhoods, Urban renewal, Gentrification, Urban transportation, Community development, Police-community relations, Education
Description: In the second of two interviews, Mattie Marshall, the current president of Historic Washington Heights Neighborhood Association in Charlotte, North Carolina, emphasizes the importance of preserving the history of Historic Washington Heights and ho...