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Title: Phaedra Holley oral history interview, 2021 July 20
Creator: Holley, Phaedra Berry
Date Created: 2021-07-20
Subjects--Topical: College students, Universities and colleges--Alumni and alumnae, African Americans--Education, School integration
Description: In this interview, Phaedra Holley discusses her time as a student at UNC Charlotte and her life after graduating. [all times approximate]. Growing up in Kinston, North Carolina and attending a private school until high school when local schools in...

Title: Brenda Steadman oral history interview, 2021 April 5
Creator: Steadman, Brenda Glenn
Date Created: 2021-04-05
Subjects--Topical: College students, Universities and colleges--Alumni and alumnae, African Americans--Education, First-generation college students
Description: Brenda Steadman shares her experience as an undergraduate student at UNC Charlotte from August 1970 to May 1974. [All times approximate] Brenda discusses being the first person in her family to attend a four year university [1:42], she shares what...

Title: Bonnie Cone oral history interview 23, 1993 April 26
Creator: Cone, Bonnie E., 1907-2003
Date Created: 1993-04-26
Subjects--Topical: Basketball, College sports, Educational fund raising, Mathematics--Study and teaching, Public universities and colleges, School sites, Student government, Universities and colleges--Administration
Description: In this student interview from 1993, Dr. Bonnie Cone, founder of the University of North Carolina at Charlotte (UNC Charlotte), discusses the early days of the university's predecessor, Charlotte College. She explains that it was the students' dec...

Title: Bonnie E. Cone oral history interview 22, 1993 July 19
Creator: Cone, Bonnie E., 1907-2003
Date Created: 1993-07-19
Subjects--Topical: Education, Higher, Women in mathematics, Women college administrators, Public universities and colleges, Universities and colleges--Administration, College presidents, Junior colleges
Description: A woman with a life-long commitment to education, Bonnie Cone discusses her many roles as teacher, college administrator, and mentor. She discusses her youth in South Carolina and the educators who influenced her in both her hometown and during he...

Title: Jack Claiborne oral history interview 1, 2003 June 5
Creator: Claiborne, Jack
Date Created: 2003-06-05
Subjects--Topical: Editorials, Sports journalism, Newspapers, Journalists, Newspaper editors, Segregation, Race discrimination, Race relations
Description: Jack Claiborne, former editor at the Charlotte Observer and former director of public relations at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte (UNC Charlotte), reflects on his life, work, and the city of Charlotte. Mr. Claiborne talks about his ...

Title: Horace A. Silver oral history interview, 1979 May 22
Creator: Silver, Horace A. (Horace Aude), 1910-1984
Date Created: 1979-05-22
Subjects--Topical: Veterans--Services, Education, Higher
Description: Horace A. Silver recounts his experiences after moving to Charlotte, North Carolina following World War II. Topics discussed include his work with the United States Veterans Administration and as a field tax auditor with the North Carolina Departm...

Title: Floyd Simmons oral history interview 1, 2004 March 18
Creator: Simmons, Floyd, 1923-2008
Date Created: 2004-03-18
Subjects--Topical: Families, Rich people, Families--Economic aspects, Depressions, Businesspeople, Small business, Masculinity, War, Military education, Armed Forces
Description: In this first of three interviews, Floyd "Chunk" Simmons describes growing up during the Great Depression in Charlotte, North Carolina in a wealthy family that owned a construction company. Mr. Simmons talks about the consequences of the Great Dep...

Title: William Means Stewart, Jr., oral history interview 2, 2019 September 11
Creator: Stewart, William Means, Jr., 1917-
Date Created: 2019-09-11
Subjects--Topical: Accounting, Landowners--Attitudes, Construction industry, Cities and towns--Growth, Veterans
Description: In this second of two interviews, William "Bill" Stewart describes the university area of Charlotte, North Carolina, from the 1960s to 2000s, discusses Charlotte College's and later Walmart's moves to the area, and shares his opinion abo...

Title: James G. Babb, Jr. oral history interview 1, 2013 July 18
Creator: Babb, James G., 1932-
Date Created: 2013-07-18
Subjects--Topical: College students, African Americans--Segregation, United States. Army, Veterans--Education (Higher), Sports journalism, Political campaigns, Newspaper publishing, Television broadcasting
Description: In this interview, James G. "Jim" Babb, long-time Charlotte resident and student at Charlotte College in the 1950s, recalls his early years in New York City, Boston, and Charlotte, North Carolina; his school days at Dilworth Elementary School, O&a...

Title: H. Parry Bliss, Jr. oral history interview, 2015 October 22
Creator: Bliss, H. Parry, Jr.
Date Created: 2015-10-22
Subjects--Topical: College students, Civil rights movements, College student newspapers and periodicals, College yearbooks, Universities and colleges--Alumni and alumnae, Education, Higher, September 11 Terrorist Attacks (2001)
Description: In this interview H. Parry Bliss, Jr., alumnus of the University of North Carolina at Charlotte, shares memories of his time as a student at the university, particularly of his senior year in 1969. He recalls his impressions of Bonnie Cone and rec...

Title: Ronald R. Caldwell oral history interview, 2005 May 31
Creator: Caldwell, Ronald R. (Ronald Renord)
Date Created: 2005-05-31
Subjects--Topical: African American college students, African American student movements, African Americans--Study and teaching, College integration, Race relations, Student unions, Student movements, School integration
Description: Ronald Caldwell discusses his involvement in the black student movement on the campus of the University of North Carolina at Charlotte during the late 1960s to the early 1970s. He discusses Stokely Carmichael's campus speech; the February 26, 1969...

Title: Elinor B. Caddell oral history interview, 2017 August 23
Creator: Caddell, Elinor B. (Elinor Brooks), 1922-
Date Created: 2017-08-23
Subjects--Topical: Nursing, Nurses, Nursing--Study and teaching, Nursing schools--Faculty, Nursing schools--Curricula, Medicine, Education--Research
Description: Charlotte native, Elinor Caddell, one of the founding faculty members of the UNC Charlotte School of Nursing, recalls her career in nursing education and how the profession has evolved over the years. Ms. Caddell recalls entering the newly created...

Title: Benjamin Chavis Jr. oral history interview, 2005 February 7
Creator: Chavis, Ben, 1948-
Date Created: 2005-02-07
Subjects--Topical: African American college students, African American college students--Political activity, African American student movements, Chemistry, Civil rights, Civil rights movements, College integration, Race relations, Racism, Segregation, Student movements
Description: Dr. Benjamin Chavis recounts his involvement in the black student movement on the campus of the University of North Carolina at Charlotte during the late 1960s to the early 1970s, when he was one of a small but politically active cohort of African...

Title: Jack Claiborne oral history interview 2, 2012 March 28
Creator: Claiborne, Jack
Date Created: 2012-03-28
Subjects--Topical: Public universities and colleges--Administration, Women college presidents, Education, Higher, Students, Teachers
Description: In this interview, Jack Claiborne, long-time reporter and editor with The Charlotte Observer and former director of public relations at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte, shares his recollections of Bonnie Cone, Charlotte College'...

Title: Ellison Clary oral history interview, 2012 May 25
Creator: Clary, Ellison
Date Created: 2012-05-25
Subjects--Topical: Women college presidents, Education--Political aspects, College students, Civil rights movements, Race relations, College student newspapers and periodicals
Description: In this interview, Mr. Ellison Clary, Charlotte native and graduate of the University of North Carolina at Charlotte, tells of his experience growing up in Charlotte in the 1950s, attending Charlotte College and UNC Charlotte during the pivotal ye...

Title: Bonnie E. Cone oral history interview 6, 1987 December 1
Creator: Cone, Bonnie E., 1907-2003
Date Created: 1987-12-01
Subjects--Topical: Education, Higher, Community colleges, Women college presidents, Women community college presidents, College-student veterans, North Carolina. General Assembly
Description: In this first of a series of interviews conducted by Dr. Ed Perzel (former Chair of the Department of History and Associate Dean for the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences at UNC Charlotte), Bonnie Cone discusses the early years of what eventual...

Title: Bonnie E. Cone oral history interview 7, 1987 December 8
Creator: Cone, Bonnie E., 1907-2003
Date Created: 1987-12-08
Subjects--Topical: Country life, Teachers, Universities and colleges
Description: In this second of a series of interviews conducted by Dr. Ed Perzel (former Chair of the Department of History and Associate Dean for the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences at UNC Charlotte), Bonnie Cone reflects on her childhood, youth, and ear...

Title: Bonnie E. Cone oral history interview 8, 1987 December 17
Creator: Cone, Bonnie E., 1907-2003
Date Created: 1987-12-17
Subjects--Topical: Education, Higher, Community colleges, Women college presidents, Women community college presidents, College-student veterans, Community colleges--Accreditation
Description: In this third of a series of interviews conducted by Dr. Ed Perzel (former Chair of the Department of History and Associate Dean for the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences at UNC Charlotte), Bonnie Cone recalls the early history of the universit...

Title: Bonnie E. Cone oral history interview 9, 1988 January 28
Creator: Cone, Bonnie E., 1907-2003
Date Created: 1988-01-28
Subjects--Topical: Education, Higher, Education, Higher--Administration, Community colleges, Women college presidents, Women community college presidents, College-student veterans
Description: In this fourth of a series of interviews conducted by Dr. Ed Perzel (former Chair of the Department of History and Associate Dean for the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences at UNC Charlotte), Bonnie Cone discusses the early history of UNC Charlo...

Title: Bonnie E. Cone oral history interview 10, 1988 February 4
Creator: Cone, Bonnie E., 1907-2003
Date Created: 1988-02-04
Subjects--Topical: Education, Higher, Education, Higher--Administration, Community colleges, Wages--College employees, Women college presidents, Women community college presidents, College-student veterans
Description: In this fifth of a series of interviews conducted by Dr. Ed Perzel (former Chair of the Department of History and Associate Dean for the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences at UNC Charlotte), Bonnie Cone discusses the transition from Charlotte Ce...

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