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Title: Irene Elizabeth Hunt oral history interview, 2004 February 13
Creator: Hunt, Irene Elizabeth Stephens, 1910-2008
Date Created: 2004-02-13
Subjects--Topical: African American elementary schools, Education, Rural, Teachers, Students, Segregation in education, African Americans--Segregation
Description: Irene Elizabeth Hunt describes her early life growing up in Gaffney, South Carolina during the early twentieth century and the great importance of education to her family. Topics include helping to educate her siblings; memories of one of her favo...

Title: Linda Lawyer oral history interview 1, 2018 April 6
Creator: Lawyer, Linda A. (Linda Ann), 1947-
Date Created: 2018-04-06
Subjects--Topical: Lesbians, Gay Community, Lesbians' writings
Description: In this interview, Charlotte LGBTQ activist Linda Lawyer discusses the history of Queen City Friends (QCF), the lesbian organization that she founded in 1986. Mrs. Lawyer explains how her prior work with Charlotte's Gay and Lesbian Switchboar...

Title: Linda Lawyer oral history interview 2, 2019 January 24
Creator: Lawyer, Linda A. (Linda Ann), 1947-
Date Created: 2019-01-02
Subjects--Topical: Lesbians, Computer Programming, Gay Community, Lesbians' writings, Sex discrimination in employment, Sex discrimination against women, Women in computer science
Description: As a lesbian coming of age in the late 1960s and 1970s, Linda Lawyer shares her early experiences with socialization and marginalization in this second of a series of interviews. Growing up in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, she discusses her Catholic u...

Title: Linda Lawyer oral history interview 3, 2019 April 9
Creator: Lawyer, Linda A. (Linda Ann), 1947-
Date Created: 2019-04-09
Subjects--Topical: Gay Activists, Gay Community, Lesbians, Lesbians' writings, Marginality, Social
Description: In 1982, Linda Lawyer and her partner moved to Charlotte, North Carolina. In this third of several interviews, Mrs. Lawyer speaks in-depth about her LGBTQ community activism in Charlotte that began in the 1980s and continued in 2019. As a prominen...

Title: Lisa Sherman oral history interview, 2019 April 10
Creator: Sherman, Lisa, 1992-
Date Created: 2019-04-10
Subjects--Topical: Lettuce, Greenhouse gardening, Hydroponics, College students
Description: At the time of the interview Lisa Sherman was employed by Tega Hills Farm, in Fort Mill, South Carolina. Her duties at the farm included product weighing, packaging, and lettuce harvesting. Ms. Sherman describes her experiences with farming at her...

Title: William C. E. Pfischner oral history interview, 2017 May 22
Creator: Pfischner, William C. E., 1922-2022
Date Created: 2017-05-22
Subjects--Topical: Physicians, Orphanages, Conscientious objectors, Medicine--Practice
Description: In this interview, Dr. William C.E. Pfischner discusses his thirty-year long career as a doctor for the U.S. Navy and for the Philadelphia Health Department, as well as his association with life partner Dr. Loy H. Witherspoon, founding chair of th...