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Title: Wilma Conder oral history interview, 1993 September 22
Creator: Conder, Wilma H., 1923-2014
Date Created: 1993-09-22
Subjects--Topical: Industrial relations, Automation, Foundries--Automation, Pipe mills, Plastics industry and trade, Plastics--Molding, Plastics workers, Shipment of goods, Teams in the workplace, Women blue collar workers, Work environment
Description: In her interview, Wilma Conder recounts her twenty-five years at the Charlotte Pipe and Foundry plastics plant. Mrs. Conder discusses her job as an operator of a large molding machine, noting her pioneering efforts in this position as few women da...

Title: William Culp oral history interview, 1996 April 2
Creator: Culp, William, Sr.
Date Created: 1996-04-02
Subjects--Topical: Christian life, Methodist Church, Evangelicalism, Religious gatherings, Revivals, Church work, Clergy, Church finance, Race relations
Description: Reverend William Culp, a Methodist minister in Charlotte, discusses his involvement with Billy Graham's ministry over decades, particularly the Billy Graham Crusade held in Charlotte in the 1950s. Mr. Culp relates information about the long-range ...

Title: Wendell D. Sloan oral history interview, 1996 April 16
Creator: Sloan, Wendell D., 1926-2002
Date Created: 1996-04-16
Subjects--Topical: Revivals, Religious gatherings, Evangelicalism, Christian life, Spiritual life--Christianity, Race relations--Religious aspects--Christianity, Values--Religious aspects--Christianity
Description: Wendell D. Sloan, a church administrator, describes his experiences with Rev. Billy Graham over the years. He discusses Billy Graham's ministry and his own involvement in the Charlotte crusades, including chartering two buses from Augusta, Georgia...

Title: Vada Hewins and John Shayle Edwards oral history interview, 1993 March 15
Creator: Hewins, Vada
Date Created: 1993-03-15
Subjects--Topical: Basketball, Basketball for women, Women basketball players, School sports, Basketball--Tournaments, Farm life, Basketball--Rules, Basketball uniforms, Basketball--Coaching
Description: Vada Hewins and her son, John Shayle Edwards, describe their early experiences playing basketball in Catawba County, North Carolina. Vada Hewins goes into detail about how the rules and regulations pertaining to women's basketball had evolved from...

Title: Tom Scott oral history interview, 1993 July 2
Creator: Scott, Tom, 1908-1993
Date Created: 1993-07-02
Subjects--Topical: Basketball, College sports, College athletes--Scholarships, fellowships, etc., Basketball--Tournaments, Basketball--Economic aspects, Television broadcasting of sports, Discrimination in sports, African Americans--Segregation, Basketball players
Description: Tom Scott describes his coaching career and his role as the NCAA Basketball Committee chairman, in which he helped bring many basketball tournament events to North Carolina. Mr. Scott talks about his career as head coach for both UNC Chapel Hill a...

Title: Titus Ivory Sr., Titus Ivory Jr., and Terrell Ivory oral history interview, 1993 March 24
Creator: Ivory, Titus Lovell, 1949-1998
Date Created: 1993-03-24
Subjects--Topical: Basketball, Streetball, African Americans--Segregation, Basketball--Coaching, College sports, College athletes, College athletes--Scholarships, fellowships, etc., African American athletes, African American families, African Americans--Education, Football, School sports
Description: Titus Lovell Ivory discusses his enthusiasm and participation in sports, both football and basketball. He describes his participation in sports since he was a child and recalls the various athletes he has encountered, from growing up playing stree...

Title: Thomas R. Lawing Sr. oral history interview, 1996 June 17
Creator: Lawing, T. R. (Thomas Ranson), 1927-2014
Date Created: 1996-06-17
Subjects--Topical: Revivals, Religious gatherings, Christian life, Choirs (Music)
Description: Charlotte businessman T. R. Lawing talks about his involvement in the Billy Graham Crusade in Charlotte, North Carolina in 1958. He shares his experience of singing in the crusade choir with his wife, and describes his lifelong involvement in sing...

Title: Thomas Martin and Gloria Martin oral history interview, 1993 April 7
Creator: Martin, Thomas, 1904-1994
Date Created: 1993-04-07
Subjects--Topical: Basketball, Basketball--Coaching, Basketball coaches, School sports, Basketball teams, Sports--Social aspects, African Americans--Segregation, African American schools
Description: Thomas Martin and Gloria Martin talk about Mr. Martin's time coaching basketball and football at West Charlotte High School in Charlotte, North Carolina while it was an all-Black school during segregation. Topics discussed include the importance o...

Title: Thomas L. Bryant and John Costner oral history interview, 1993 September 29
Creator: Bryant, Thomas L. (Thomas Leroy), 1950-
Date Created: 1993-09-29
Subjects--Topical: Basketball, Basketball players, School sports, Basketball--Coaching, School integration, School integration--Social aspects, Race relations, Basketball--Tournaments
Description: Thomas L. "Tommy" Bryant and John Costner share their experiences playing on the Ashley High School basketball team in Gastonia, North Carolina in 1967, during the first year of integration at the school. John Costner, a Black student, transferred...

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...

Title: Terry Holland and Emil Parker oral history interview, 1993 June 6
Creator: Holland, Terry, 1942-
Date Created: 1993-06-10
Subjects--Topical: Basketball, Basketball--Coaching, Basketball coaches, College sports, College sports--Recruiting, Basketball teams, Basketball players, Academic achievement
Description: Terry Holland and Emil Parker talk about the rise of basketball at Davidson College in Davidson, North Carolina. Mr. Holland discusses playing on the Davidson team while "Lefty" Driesell was coach during the 1960s, and describes how Coach Driesell...

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...

Title: Suzanne "Susie" O'Neal oral history interview, 1996 May 2
Creator: O'Neal, Suzanne
Date Created: 1996-05-02
Subjects--Topical: Christian life, Evangelicalism, Religious gatherings, Revivals
Description: Suzanne "Susie" Herndon O'Neal recalls a Billy Graham crusade that she, her mother, and her grandmother attended in the 1950s. Ms. O'Neal was around ten years old at the time of the crusade that she attended in Greensboro, North Carolina. She desc...

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: 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: Rosemary J. Lands oral history interview, 1996 April 8
Creator: Lands, Rosemary J.
Date Created: 1996-04-08
Subjects--Topical: Revivals, Religious gatherings, Christianity, Christian life, Evangelicalism, City and town life, Business enterprises--Religious aspects, Amphitheaters
Description: Long-time Charlottean Rosemary Lands discusses her and her family's experiences with the 1958 Billy Graham Crusade in Charlotte, North Carolina, which she attended at the age of twelve. Ms. Lands details the planning and community involvement prio...

Title: Robena Morgan oral history interview, 1996 May 2
Creator: Morgan, Robena P., 1906-2006
Date Created: 1996-05-02
Subjects--Topical: Christian life, Religious gatherings, Revivals, Evangelicalism
Description: Robena Morgan of Charlotte, North Carolina, recalls one of Billy Graham\u2019s crusades that she and her father attended at the Cow Palace in San Francisco, California. Ms. Morgan explains that her father was an acquaintance of Billy Graham's and ...

Title: Regina Crockett oral history interview, 1999 June 20
Creator: Crockett, Regina N. (Regina Nicole)
Date Created: 1999-06-20
Subjects--Topical: Academic achievement, Advanced placement programs (Education), High school students, High school students--Conduct of life, African American high school students, Race relations
Description: Regina Crockett recounts her experiences attending West Charlotte High School in the late 1990s. Topics discussed include the importance of Advanced Placement (AP) classes at West Charlotte; how she and other Black students were encouraged by thei...

Title: Rankin Baker and Leon Bost oral history interview, 1993 October 22
Creator: Baker, Rankin, Sr., 1921-2013
Date Created: 1993-10-22
Subjects--Topical: Basketball, Young Men's Christian associations, Youth league basketball, Basketball for children, Basketball--Tournaments, Sports administration, Sports, Softball, Mills and mill-work, Concessions (Amusements, etc.), Youth--Societies and clubs
Description: Rankin Baker and Leon Bost discuss their careers and experiences with the YMCA. Mr. Baker worked for the Cannon Memorial YMCA in Kannapolis, North Carolina for over 40 years, and he describes sports programs at the YMCA for children and adults fro...

Title: Peggy Sue V. Henry oral history interview, 1996 May 7
Creator: Henry, Peggy Sue V., 1933-
Date Created: 1996-05-07
Subjects--Topical: Family farms, Poliomyelitis, Revivals, Presbyterianism, Christian life, Manners and customs, City and town life
Description: Peggy Sue Henry discusses her memories of Reverend Billy Graham's family while growing up in Charlotte, North Carolina. As a childhood friend of Reverend Graham's sister, Jean Graham, Ms. Henry recounts memories of the Graham family including Bill...

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