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Title: Cameron Morrison Harris oral history interview, 2014 June 12
Creator: Harris, Cameron M. (Cameron Morrison)
Date Created: 2014-06-12
Subjects--Topical: College students, Education, Higher, Women in higher education, Community development, Urban
Description: In this interview, Cameron Morrison Harris, long-time resident of Charlotte, North Carolina, and alumnus of the University of North Carolina at Charlotte, discusses his experience growing up in Charlotte and his involvement with UNC Charlotte and ...

Title: Darryl Gaston oral history interview, 2015 November 2
Creator: Gaston, D. Reginald (Darryl Reginald)
Date Created: 2015-11-02
Subjects--Topical: Race discrimination, Community development, Urban, Citizens' associations
Description: Darryl Reginald Gaston served as the President of the Druid Hills Neighborhood Association in Charlotte North Carolina for nearly a decade. Born in 1961, Mr. Gaston grew up on Edison Street, located in Druid Hills, which he describes as a tight-kn...

Title: Girvaud Justice oral history interview 3, 2006 August 25
Creator: Justice, Girvaud, 1944-
Date Created: 2006-08-25
Subjects--Topical: African American neighborhoods, Gentrification, City planning, Community development corporations, Community development, Urban, Citizens' associations
Description: Girvaud Justice was one of four African American students who attended all-white schools in Charlotte in 1957 as a challenge to the city's slow response to desegregate schools, which had been mandated by the Supreme Court ruling in Brown v. B...

Title: Rickey Hall oral history interview, 2019 April 16
Creator: Hall, Rickey, 1957-
Date Created: 2019-04-16
Subjects--Topical: Urban agriculture, Gardening, Food security, Community development, Urban, Grocery trade
Description: Native Charlottean Ricky Hall has lived in West Charlotte for his entire life, where he has become an important member of numerous neighborhood coalitions and organizations, including the West Boulevard Neighborhood Coalition and the West Side Com...

Title: Robert Eades oral history interview, 2002 October 20
Creator: Eades, Robert (Robert O.)
Date Created: 2002-10-20
Subjects--Topical: Land use, Rural, Mills and mill-work, Hunting, Fishing, Community development, Urban, Cotton growing, Ponds, Rivers, Camp meetings, County government, Zoning, Animals
Description: Robert Eades discusses the history of the land in Catawba County and Long Island, North Carolina, along with how the area has changed in recent years. Mr. Eades talks about cotton mills, which had closed by the time of interview; cotton farming, n...

Title: Shateah Marshall oral history interview, 2015 April 10
Creator: Marshall, Shateah
Date Created: 2015-04-10
Subjects--Topical: Community development, Urban, Demographic transition, African American families, African American neighborhoods
Description: Shateah Marshall, a twenty-four year old resident of Washington Heights in Charlotte, North Carolina, discusses her perspective on the neighborhood as a younger resident. She relates that her family has lived in the neighborhood for four generatio...