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Title: Bobbie Nell Earnhardt oral history interview 2, 2002 April 2
Creator: Earnhardt, Bobbie Nell, 1921-2003
Date Created: 2002-04-02
Subjects--Topical: Cities and towns, Cities and towns--Growth, Farms, Farm life, Police, Chain gangs, African Americans--Segregation, African Americans--Social conditions, Race relations, Alcohol trafficking, Prohibition, Bookkeeping
Description: Bobbie Nell Earnhardt was born on Graham St. in Charlotte, North Carolina; she discusses growing up in Charlotte in the 1930s and shares her family's stories. She tells about her mother working at the handkerchief factory, which turned into the Ol...

Title: Edwin Black oral history interview, 2004 March 26
Creator: Black, Edwin, 1924-
Date Created: 2004-03-26
Subjects--Topical: War, Warships, Warships--Accidents, Military hospitals, Popular music radio stations, Veterans, Veterans--Medical care, Radio, Radio, Military
Description: Edwin Black discusses his time on the USS Rich during the invasion of Normandy and his life after World War II. Mr. Black joined the U.S. Navy in 1942 when he was eighteen as a radio technician with his cousin. The USS Rich was a convoy ship that ...

Title: Ernest Henderson oral history interview, 2004 March 9
Creator: Henderson, Ernest, Sr., 1917-2011
Date Created: 2004-03-09
Subjects--Topical: Families, Family farms, Farm life, Molasses, African American schools, Segregation in education, Segregation, Military education, Air pilots, Military, African American air pilots, Flight training, Armed Forces, War
Description: Ernest Henderson talks about his experiences as an African American growing up in Mountville, South Carolina during the 1920s and later serving in the Army Air Corps as a flight instructor during World War II. Mr. Henderson describes attending hig...

Title: Esther Young oral history interview, 2003 March 1
Creator: Young, Esther B., 1923-2004
Date Created: 2003-03-01
Subjects--Topical: Family farms, Rural families, Depressions, African Americans--Segregation, Education, Rural, Families--Social life and customs, Politics and government, Sharecropping, Amusements
Description: Esther Young recalls her childhood in rural Cabarrus County, North Carolina during the early 1930s and summarizes her family's experiences during the Great Depression. Ms. Young explains that her family farmed throughout the Great Depression and w...

Title: Floyd Simmons oral history interview 1, 2004 March 18
Creator: Simmons, Floyd, 1923-2008
Date Created: 2004-03-18
Subjects--Topical: Families, Rich people, Families--Economic aspects, Depressions, Businesspeople, Small business, Masculinity, War, Military education, Armed Forces
Description: In this first of three interviews, Floyd "Chunk" Simmons describes growing up during the Great Depression in Charlotte, North Carolina in a wealthy family that owned a construction company. Mr. Simmons talks about the consequences of the Great Dep...

Title: Floyd Simmons oral history interview 2, 2004 March 26
Creator: Simmons, Floyd, 1923-2008
Date Created: 2004-03-26
Subjects--Topical: War, War stories, Battles, Combat, Land mines, War casualties, War wounds, Military hospitals, Olympics, Veterans
Description: Floyd "Chunk" Simmons continues his story in this second of three interviews with a discussion of his time serving in the 10th Mountain Division of the United States Army during World War II. Mr. Simmons arrived in Italy in August 1944 and stayed ...

Title: Floyd Simmons oral history interview 3, 2004 April 7
Creator: Simmons, Floyd, 1923-2008
Date Created: 2004-04-07
Subjects--Topical: War, Veterans, Universities and colleges, College sports, College students, College-student veterans, Decathlon, Decathlon--Training, Athletes, Olympics, Olympic athletes, Motion pictures, Acting, Photography
Description: In this last of three interviews, Floyd "Chunk" Simmons discusses his activities after serving in World War II, including his time in the Olympics and in Hollywood as an actor. After the war, Mr. Simmons attended the University of North Carolina a...

Title: John Archibald oral history interview, 2004 April 1
Creator: Archibald, John, 1925-2008
Date Created: 2004-04-01
Subjects--Topical: Working class families, Working class, Mills and mill-work, Industrial housing, Vocational education, Shipyards, Labor unions, War, Americans--Public opinion, Bombings, Airplanes, Military, Poverty, Racism, Racism--Economic aspects, Work environment, Veterans
Description: John Archibald recounts growing up in the Leakesville-Spray area of Rockingham Country, North Carolina, his time as a soldier during World War II, and his life and career after the war. As Mr. Archibald grew older, he became aware that his educati...

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: Lester Youngblood oral history interview, 2003 February 22
Creator: Youngblood, William Lester, 1915-2012
Date Created: 2003-02-22
Subjects--Topical: Depressions, Family farms, Farm life, Dairy farming, Milk trade, Cotton trade, Wages, Country life, Amusements, War, Armed Forces
Description: William Lester Youngblood recounts his experiences living on a cotton and dairy farm in Mecklenburg County, North Carolina during the Great Depression. He talks about how rural communities were impacted differently than the cities and describes ho...

Title: Mattie Creigton oral history interview, 2003 March 5
Creator: Creigton, Mattie, 1912-2004
Date Created: 2003-03-05
Subjects--Topical: Depressions, Family farms, Farm life, City and town life, Roads--Design and construction, Amusements, Voting, Christian life
Description: Mattie Creighton, a lifelong Charlottean, recalls growing up during the Great Depression in Charlotte, North Carolina and working as a young woman during the 1930s and 1940s. Ms. Creighton describes her hardships during the time period including s...

Title: Oni Wilson oral history interview, 2003 February 26
Creator: Wilson, Oni, 1915-2009
Date Created: 2003-02-26
Subjects--Topical: Depressions, Family farms, Farm life, Cotton, Political and social views, Baseball, Textile industry, Textile workers--Labor unions, Company towns, Baptists
Description: Oni Wilson describes his childhood during the Great Depression and growing up on a cotton farm in Davidson, North Carolina. He talks about how his family lost their home in 1929 because of the fall of cotton prices, then rented a home and farmland...

Title: Otto Lutz oral history interview, 1974 March 25
Creator: Lutz, Otto, 1925-2017
Date Created: 1974-03-25
Subjects--Topical: War, Soldiers, Armed Forces--Swiss regiments, Border patrols, Rationing
Description: Otto Lutz discusses his time in the Swiss Army during World War II. He talks about growing up in Uster, Switzerland, ten to fifteen miles outside Zurich and how he was fourteen when World War II broke out. In 1944, he joined the Swiss Army, as all...

Title: Sarah Alexander oral history interview, 2000 February 3
Creator: Alexander, Sarah Land, 1913-
Date Created: 2000-02-03
Subjects--Topical: Teachers, Families, Rich people, Genealogy, Family farms, Farm life, Cotton growing, Tenant farmers, Dairy farms, Barns, Dairy barns--Design and construction, Dairy barns, Farm equipment, Education
Description: Sarah Land Alexander Sr. and her daughter, Sarah Land Alexander Jr., talk about their lives and the history of the Alexander family farm in Charlotte, North Carolina. Mrs. Alexander Sr. describes how she met her husband, William Tasse 'Bill' Alexa...

Title: Susan Cernyak oral history interview, 1974 March 28
Creator: Cernyak-Spatz, Susan E., 1922-
Date Created: 1974-03-28
Subjects--Topical: Antisemitism, Concentration camps, Holocaust survivors, Jews
Description: Susan Cernyak, a UNC Charlotte professor and Holocaust survivor, recounts her experience during World War II. Born in Austria, Ms. Cernyak describes the treatment of Austrian Jews before and after Nazi Germany's annexation of the country. She expl...

Title: William T. Alexander oral history interview 3, 1992 Spring
Creator: Alexander, William Tasse, 1904-1992
Date Created: 1992
Subjects--Topical: Rich people, Work environment, Insurance agents, Rural conditions, Business enterprises, Competition, Soldiers
Description: In this last of three interviews, Charlotte native William T. Alexander describes his early career in the 1920s-1930s working in several places across the United States as well as his time in the U.S. Army during World War II. Mr. Alexander talks ...

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