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Title: Alfred Alexander oral history interview, 2001 May 10
Creator: Alexander, Alfred L., 1952-
Date Created: 2001-05-10
Subjects--Topical: African Americans--Segregation, Civil rights movements, Segregation in education, School integration, Bombings, Busing for school integration, Discrimination in public accommodations, Group identity, Race relations
Description: Alfred Alexander describes his early life in Charlotte, North Carolina during the 1950s-1970s as the son of prominent civil rights pioneer Kelly Alexander Sr., a leader in the Charlotte and the North Carolina branches of the NAACP. As a child he l...

Title: Betty Seizinger oral history interview, 1999 June 22
Creator: Seizinger, Betty, 1931-2004
Date Created: 1999-06-22
Subjects--Topical: School integration, School integration--Public opinion, Discrimination in education, De facto school segregation, Teachers, Magnet schools, Busing for school integration, Race relations
Description: Betty Seizinger discusses the history of West Charlotte High School and shares her experiences as a teacher there during the 1980s. Ms. Seizinger describes West Charlotte's challenges and successes in integrating staff and students during the...

Title: Carrie Graves oral history interview, 2005 April 20
Creator: Graves, Carrie, 1936-
Date Created: 2005-04-20
Subjects--Topical: Classroom environment, Segregation in education, School integration, Busing for school integration, Racism, Education, Home economics--Study and teaching, School discipline
Description: Carrie Graves describes her experience growing up in Cherry, a predominantly African American neighborhood in Charlotte, North Carolina, and her education at the segregated Morgan Elementary School and Second Ward High School during the 1940s thro...

Title: Chris Folk oral history interview 1, 1997 October 16
Creator: Folk, Chris Evans, 1930-2010
Date Created: 1997-10-16
Subjects--Topical: Busing for school integration, De facto school segregation, Magnet schools, Race relations, School districts--Planning, School enrollment, School integration, School management and organization, Segregation in education, Trials, litigation, etc.
Description: In this 1997 interview, Dr. Chris Folk, former associate superintendent of Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools, recounts the school system's history of desegregation in light of the filing of Capacchione v. Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools earlier that yea...

Title: Chris Folk oral history interview 2, 1996 September 16
Creator: Folk, Chris Evans, 1930-2010
Date Created: 1996-09-16
Subjects--Topical: School integration, Busing for school integration, Magnet schools, Civil rights, Discrimination in education, Families--Education, Race relations
Description: Dr. Chris Folk, former associate superintendent and longtime employee of the Charlotte-Mecklenburg school system, discusses his life and work as an educator. After reflecting on his early experiences as the son of a textile mill superintendent in ...

Title: Elizabeth Randolph oral history interview 1, 1993 June 16
Creator: Randolph, Elizabeth S.
Date Created: 1993-06-16
Subjects--Topical: African American elementary schools, African Americans--Segregation, Education, Racism in education, School integration, Segregation, Segregation in education, Busing for school integration, Manners and customs, Depressions
Description: In this first interview with Jennifer Greeson for the Levine Museum, Elizabeth Randolph describes growing up during the 1920s and 1930s in a family that emphasized education which inspired her dedication as an educator throughout her life in such ...

Title: Freddie and Christine Sanders oral history interview, 2005 February 1
Creator: Sanders, Freddie, 1931-
Date Created: 2005-02-01
Subjects--Topical: African American neighborhoods, African Americans--Segregation, Segregation in education, School integration, Teachers, Busing for school integration, Student activities, Students--Social life and customs
Description: Freddie and Christine Sanders reflect on what it was like to be students at the all-black Second Ward High School in Charlotte's Brooklyn neighborhood during segregation in the 1940s and early 1950s. They describe school dances, football game...

Title: Gerson L. Stroud oral history interview, 2001 June 20
Creator: Stroud, Gerson L., 1919-2006
Date Created: 2001-06-20
Subjects--Topical: Race relations, Segregation, African Americans--Education, School integration, Busing for school integration, African American school principals, Public school--Administration, African American soldiers--Social conditions
Description: Gerson L. Stroud recounts his experiences as a lifelong resident of Charlotte as well as his thirty-one year career with the Charlotte-Mecklenburg school system where, as principal of West Charlotte High School, he oversaw that school's racial int...

Title: James E. Ferguson II oral history interview, 2001 November 28
Creator: Ferguson, James E. (James Elliott), 1942-
Date Created: 2001-11-28
Subjects--Topical: African American lawyers, Trials, litigation, etc., Racism, Race relations, Civil rights movements, Segregation in education, School integration, Busing for school integration
Description: James Ferguson, a partner at the first integrated law firm in North Carolina, recounts his life's work fighting for civil rights in the state. His involvement with social justice began when he was still in high school, where he helped found the As...

Title: Jeanne Brayboy oral history interview, 1997 September 25
Creator: Brayboy, Jeanne, 1930-
Date Created: 1997-09-25
Subjects--Topical: Music--Study and teaching (Elementary), Segregation in education, School integration, School integration--Public opinion, Busing for school integration, Race relations
Description: Jeanne Brayboy recounts her life, career as an elementary school music teacher, and firsthand experience of Charlotte's schools before and after integration. She moved to Charlotte after college and began teaching in segregated black schools, whic...

Title: Jeffrey L. Nance oral history interview, 1997 September 30
Creator: Nance, Jeffrey L. (Jeffrey Lane), 1956-
Date Created: 1997-09-30
Subjects--Topical: School integration, Segregation in education, Race relations, Educational equalization, Busing for school integration, Busing for school integration--Public opinion, Race riots
Description: Computer programmer Jeffrey Nance, a native of the Charlotte region, discusses his experiences attending Garinger High School during school integration in the early 1970s. Mr. Nance was finishing the eighth grade when the Supreme Court determined ...

Title: John Hancock oral history interview, 1997 November 25
Creator: Hancock, John, 1955-
Date Created: 1997-11-25
Subjects--Topical: School integration, Busing for school integration, Race relations, Racism, School violence
Description: John Hancock recounts his experiences as a high school student during the first years of integration of the Charlotte-Mecklenburg school system. Mr. Hancock attended Garinger High School from 1970 to 1973 and explains that while most of the studen...

Title: Julius L. Chambers oral history interview, 1997 October 24
Creator: Chambers, Julius L. (Julius LeVonne), 1936-2013
Date Created: 1997-10-24
Subjects--Topical: Segregation in education, Busing for school integration, Trials, litigation, etc., School integration, School integration--Public opinion, Civil rights, Political and social views
Description: Charlotte attorney Julius L. Chambers, who represented the plaintiffs in the landmark case, Swann v. Charlotte-Mecklenburg Board of Education, talks at length about the integration of schools in Charlotte and Mecklenburg County during the late 196...

Title: Kathleen Crosby oral history interview, 2001 October 1
Creator: Crosby, Kathleen R. (Kathleen Ross), 1925-2012
Date Created: 2001-10-01
Subjects--Topical: Early childhood education, School management and organization, African American school principals, Early childhood education--Administration, Racism in education, Segregation in education, School integration, Busing for school integration, Race relations, Civil rights movements, Racism, Threats of violence
Description: Kathleen Crosby recounts her forty-year career as an educator in Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools (CMS), as well as her involvement in the civil rights movement in Charlotte. She describes the conditions for African Americans living under Jim Crow in...

Title: Kelly Alexander Jr. oral history interview 1, 2001 May 1
Creator: Alexander, Kelly M., Jr., 1948-
Date Created: 2001-05-01
Subjects--Topical: Political leadership, African Americans--Segregation, Segregation in education, School integration, Busing for school integration, Race relations, Education, Civil rights movements, Civil rights demonstrations, Cities and towns--Growth
Description: Kelly Alexander Jr., the son of local, state, and national NAACP leader and local businessman Kelly M. Alexander, Sr. and Margaret Alexander, recounts his active involvement in civil rights in Charlotte, North Carolina and the larger community. He...

Title: Madelyn Wilson oral history interview, 2002 February 2
Creator: Wilson, Madelyn Joyce S., 1953-
Date Created: 2002-02-01
Subjects--Topical: African American neighborhoods, African American families, African Americans--Social conditions, African Americans--Segregation, Race relations, Segregation in education, School integration, School integration--Public opinion, Busing for school integration
Description: Madelyn Wilson describes her experiences growing up in Charlotte, North Carolina, particularly as a student in the Charlotte-Mecklenburg school system as it underwent the process of integration during the late 1960s and early 1970s. She explains h...

Title: Maggie Lamb Nicholson oral history interview, 1979 May 24
Creator: Nicholson, Maggie Lamb, 1906-1998
Date Created: 1979-05-24
Subjects--Topical: African Americans--Segregation, Busing for school integration, School integration, Civil rights demonstrations, Civil rights, Race relations
Description: Rev. Dr. Maggie Lamb Nicholson recounts her childhood days in Elizabeth City, North Carolina in the 1900s as well as her experiences as a pastor in the Charlotte, North Carolina region beginning after her move to Charlotte in 1968. She also discus...

Title: Mary K. Pistole oral history interview, 1993 March 27
Creator: Pistole, Mary K., 1924-2001
Date Created: 1993-03-27
Subjects--Topical: Cities and towns--Growth, Presidents--Death, Women--Employment--Social aspects, Small business, Racism, School integration, Busing for school integration
Description: Mary Pistole recounts her life and experiences in Charlotte during the Great Depression, World War II, and the postwar era. Mrs. Pistole grew up in the Myers Park neighborhood and was an eighth grader at Alexander Graham Junior High School when th...

Title: Mary Lou and Jim Babb oral history interview, 1999 July 14
Creator: Babb, Mary Lou, 1948-
Date Created: 1999-07-14
Subjects--Topical: Open plan schools, School integration, Busing for school integration, Race relations, Public schools, Students, Parents' and teachers' associations
Description: Mary Lou and James "Jim" Babb recount their family's experiences attending West Charlotte High School during the height of school busing for integration in Charlotte, North Carolina during the late 1970s and early 1980s. Topics discussed include t...

Title: Naomi White-Hewitt oral history interview, 2002 November 1
Creator: White-Hewitt, Naomi
Date Created: 2002-11-01
Subjects--Topical: African American families, African Americans--Segregation, Busing for school integration, Land use, Rural, Race relations, Race discrimination, Racism, Family farms, Camp meetings, Teachers, Deeds, Water--Pollution
Description: Naomi White-Hewitt discusses her family's history in Catawba County, North Carolina and her experiences as an African American woman living in a primarily white, rural community. Mrs. White-Hewitt talks about camp meetings, race relations in the a...

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