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Title: Anne Batten oral history interview, 1993 July 26
Creator: Batten, Anne, 1914-2006
Date Created: 1993-07-26
Subjects--Topical: City and town life, High school teaching, History--Study and teaching, History--Societies, etc., School integration
Description: Anne Batten discusses growing up in the Dilworth community in Charlotte, North Carolina, her career as a teacher, and the role she played in historic preservation in Mecklenburg County. Subjects include teaching English, French, and history in rur...

Title: Dorothy Counts-Scoggins oral history interview 3, 1996 January 20
Creator: Counts-Scoggins, Dorothy, 1942-
Date Created: 1996-01-20
Subjects--Topical: Busing for school integration, Civil rights movements, School integration, Racism in education, De facto school segregation, African Americans--Education (Secondary), African Americans--Civil rights, African American families
Description: Dorothy Counts-Scoggins recounts being the first African American student to integrate Harding High School in Charlotte, North Carolina at the age of fifteen. Topics discussed include the remainder of her secondary education, Charlotte busing and ...

Title: Sara Wyche Higgins oral history interview, 1993 June 7
Creator: Higgins, Sara Wyche, 1920-2010
Date Created: 1993-06-07
Subjects--Topical: Piano music, Music--Instruction and study, Piano music--Instruction and study, Music appreciation
Description: Sara Wyche Higgins discusses her almost forty years as a piano teacher in Mint Hill and Charlotte, North Carolina. After moving to Mint Hill in the late 1940s, Mrs. Higgins soon began playing accompaniment at Bain School (now Bain Elementary Schoo...

Title: Sister Mary Michel Boulus oral history interview, 1993 June 28
Creator: Boulus, Mary Michel, Sister, 1926-2012
Date Created: 1993-06-28
Subjects--Topical: Catholics--Education, Catholic schools, Catholic universities and colleges, Nuns as teachers, School integration, Basketball
Description: Sister Mary Michel Boulus recounts her life and her forty-five year career in Catholic education and administration. The daughter of Lebanese immigrants, Sister Boulus grew up in Concord and describes the challenges the Catholic community faced th...

Title: Thereasea Delerine Elder oral history interview 1, 1993 June 25
Creator: Elder, Thereasea D. Clark (Thereasea Delerine Clark), 1927-2021
Date Created: 1993-06-25
Subjects--Topical: African American nurses, Public health nursing, Health attitudes, Health and race, Discrimination in medical care, Teenage pregnancy, Children--Health and hygiene, Pollution--Health aspects, Voluntarism
Description: Thereasea Elder recounts her life and career as a public health nurse in Charlotte, North Carolina. Before going into public health, Mrs. Elder was a nurse at Good Samaritan Hospital, the region's only hospital for African Americans. She disc...