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Title: Gladys Lavitan oral history interview 2, 1993 July 1
Creator: Lavitan, Gladys, 1916-2014
Date Created: 1993-07-01
Subjects--Topical: Acting, Community theater, Depressions, Radio broadcasting, Radio Talk Shows, Reform Judaism, Theater and society, Jews--Social conditions
Description: Gladys Lavitan recounts her life and her sixty-three year acting career in Charlotte, North Carolina. She describes growing up in Charlotte during the Depression, the city's reaction to the surprise attack at Pearl Harbor in 1941, and how the...

Title: Peggy Held oral history interview, 1996 July 17
Creator: Held, Peggy, 1920-2006
Date Created: 1996-07-17
Subjects--Topical: Choirs (Music), Revivals, Religious gatherings, Christian life
Description: Peggy Held recounts her time singing in the choir during Billy Graham's crusades in New York City and in Charlotte, North Carolina during the late 1950s. She discusses how her experience with the Graham crusades influenced her family's relocation ...

Title: Teresa Villamarin oral history interview, 2002 September 20
Creator: Villamarin, Teresa I. (Teresa Isabel)
Date Created: 2002-09-20
Subjects--Topical: Latin Americans, Hispanic Americans, Emigration and immigration, Feminism, Sexism, Latin Americans--Social conditions, Poor, Poverty, Voluntarism, Immigrants--Political activity
Description: Teresa Villamarin discusses immigrating from Bogota, Colombia as a teenager with her family to New York City for better opportunities, and her eventual journey to Charlotte, North Carolina. She discusses the conservative culture of her native Colo...