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Title: Winslow H. Hartford oral history interview, 1979 May 24
Creator: Hartford, Winslow H.
Date Created: 1979-05-24
Subjects--Topical: Depressions, Manners and customs, Citizens' associations, Local government--Citizen participation
Description: Winslow H. Hartford describes his experiences growing up in Newton, Massachusetts and attending Boston University during the time of the Great Depression. Other topics discussed include his work as a professor at Belmont Abbey College, national tr...

Title: Sue Henry oral history interview 1, 2016 July 30
Creator: Henry, Sue L.
Date Created: 2018-02-14
Subjects--Topical: Feminism, Gay activists, Gay liberation movement, Gay pride celebrations, Lesbians, Lesbian community, Women in community organization, Political campaigns
Description: In this interview Sue Henry, owner of Rising Moon Books & Beyond bookstore in Charlotte between 1991 to 1997, the first out lesbian to run for Mayor of Charlotte in 1995, and an active member of several political and social LGBTQ organizations, di...

Title: Mark Ethridge oral history interview, 2019 May 13
Creator: Ethridge, Mark
Date Created: 2019-05-13
Subjects--Topical: Newspapers, Journalism, Mass media, Civil rights, Employee rights, Creative writing, Pulitzer Prizes, Television in religion, Investigative reporting, Byssinosis
Description: Mark Ethridge, a journalist, novelist, and media entrepreneur, discusses his career, with special attention to his years as a reporter and editor at the Charlotte Observer newspaper, during the 1970s and 1980s. He begins by discussing his first ye...

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: Joseph E. Broughton Jr. oral history interview, 2003 March 2
Creator: Broughton, Joseph E., 1918-2011
Date Created: 2003-03-02
Subjects--Topical: Depressions, U.S. states--Economic conditions, Country life, Education, Rural, Vocational school students, War, Airplanes, Military
Description: Joseph E. Broughton shares what it was like to grow up in Massachusetts during the Great Depression and why he joined World War II. Mr. Broughton was ten years old when the stock market crashed and he got his first job at an ice house to help supp...

Title: Jeanne Brayboy oral history interview, 1997 September 25
Creator: Brayboy, Jeanne, 1930-
Date Created: 1997-09-25
Subjects--Topical: Music--Study and teaching (Elementary), Segregation in education, School integration, School integration--Public opinion, Busing for school integration, Race relations
Description: Jeanne Brayboy recounts her life, career as an elementary school music teacher, and firsthand experience of Charlotte's schools before and after integration. She moved to Charlotte after college and began teaching in segregated black schools, whic...

Title: Harold Pulley oral history interview 4, 2012 August 28
Creator: Pulley, Harold
Date Created: 2012-08-28
Subjects--Topical: Civil rights movement, African Americans--Education (Higher), African American college students--Political activity, Universities and colleges--Faculty, Health insurance
Description: In this fourth of four interviews, Mr. Harold Pulley resumes where he left off in the previous interview discussing Dr. Martin Luther King's assassination, specifically regarding the reaction at UNC Charlotte. He traces the history of black u...

Title: H.D. Kirkpatrick oral history interview, 2017 November 17
Creator: Kirkpatrick, H. D. (Hugh DeArmond), II, 1948-
Date Created: 2017-11-17
Subjects--Topical: Racism, Genealogy, Conscientious objectors, Humanistic psychology, Child abuse--Law and legislation, Slavery, Bible. Genesis, Enslavement
Description: In this fourth and final recording in a series of interviews with Jimmie Lee and H.D. Kirkpatrick, H.D. Kirkpatrick reflects on his family, his life experiences, and his shifting perspective on family and Southern history. Dr. Kirkpatrick describe...

Title: Diana Travis oral history interview, 2017 February 27
Creator: Travis, Diana, 1947-
Date Created: 2017-02-27
Subjects--Topical: Discrimination, Feminism, Gay community, Gay pride parades, LGBTQ+ culture, Homophobia, Lesbians, Lesbian community, Segregation
Description: Diana Travis discusses her life and activism as a lesbian living in Boston, Massachusetts and Charlotte, North Carolina. She describes her formative years in Charlotte, where her father, Gus Travis, was a popular columnist for the Charlotte Observ...

Title: Connie Vetter oral history interview, 2018 July 24
Creator: Vetter, Connie J. (Connie June)
Date Created: 2018-07-24
Subjects--Topical: Discrimination in employment--Law and legislation, Gay activists, Gay community, Lesbians--Societies and clubs, Lesbians
Description: Connie Vetter arrived in Charlotte in 1993 as a young graduate from Northeastern University School of Law in Boston. In this interview, Ms. Vetter shares her experiences in Charlotte as a young lesbian in pursuit of law work and female community. ...