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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: Balls Creek Camp Meeting oral history interview, 2002 August 24
Creator: Ewing, Todd D. (Todd Douglas), 1969-
Date Created: 2002-08-24
Subjects--Topical: Camp meetings, Families--Social life and customs, Country life, Protestant churches, Outdoor recreation, Land use, Rural
Description: The interview is with members of two extended families, the Harbinsons and the Ewings, at the Balls Creek Campground, where generations have met to attend worship services, visit neighbors in their community, and relax with their families. Individ...

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: Brett Gilbert oral history interview, 2006 October 26
Creator: Gilbert, Brett, 1941-
Date Created: 2006-10-26
Subjects--Topical: Race relations, Country life, Social values, Soldiers, Civil rights movements
Description: Brett Gilbert recounts his life and experiences in Lincoln County and in Charlotte, North Carolina. Growing up on a dairy farm in rural Lincoln County, Mr. Gilbert explains how most people were poor farmers and that with the exception of atomic bo...

Title: C. Vanessa Baxter oral history interview, 2004 December 21
Creator: Baxter, C. Vanessa, 1954-2007
Date Created: 2004-12-21
Subjects--Topical: African American students, Discrimination in education, Racism in education, Segregation in education, School integration, Race relations, School violence, Foreign study
Description: Vanessa Baxter describes her experiences as a student in Charlotte-Mecklenburg schools from 1959 through the early 1970s, focusing in particular on the impact of integration. Ms. Baxter describes attending an all-black elementary school, then movi...

Title: Cindy Leggett oral history interview, 2006 April 1
Creator: Leggett, Cindy C. (Cindy Correll), 1949-
Date Created: 2006-04-01
Subjects--Topical: City and town life, Education, Middle class families, Physicians, Medical offices, Race relations, Segregation--Social aspects
Description: Cindy Leggett recalls her early life growing up and attending school in Kannapolis, North Carolina during the mid-twentieth century. She describes her parents' expectations towards education and how her father served as her role model and influenc...

Title: Dorothy Counts-Scoggins oral history interview 2, 2006 December 10
Creator: Counts-Scoggins, Dorothy, 1942-
Date Created: 2006-12-10
Subjects--Topical: Busing for school integration, Civil rights movements, African American neighborhoods, School integration, Racism in education, De facto school segregation, African Americans--Education (Secondary), African Americans--Civil rights, African American families
Description: Dorothy Counts-Scoggins recounts her experience growing up in the Biddleville community in the 1950s, including being the first African American student to integrate Harding High School in Charlotte, North Carolina. She discusses her four days at ...

Title: Gail E. Haley oral history interview 2, 2006 January 27
Creator: Haley, Gail E.
Date Created: 2006-01-27
Subjects--Topical: Block printing, Caldecott Medal, Children's literature, Color separation, Folk literature, Illustrations, Linoleum block-printing, Publishers and publishing, Storytelling, Wood-engraving--Printing
Description: Gail Haley, an author and illustrator of children's literature born in Charlotte, North Carolina, recalls her early adulthood and discusses her first interactions with the publishing world. In this second of sixteen interviews, Ms. Haley recounts ...

Title: Girvaud Justice oral history interview 4, 2006 September 22
Creator: Justice, Girvaud, 1944-
Date Created: 2006-09-22
Subjects--Topical: Race relations, Sexism, Racism, Diversity in the workplace, Sexual harassment, Sex in the workplace, Civil service positions, Illegal aliens
Description: Girvaud Justice was one of four African American students who attended all-white schools in Charlotte in 1957 as a challenge to the city's slow response to desegregate schools, which had been mandated by the Supreme Court ruling in Brown v. B...

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: John L. Holloway oral history interview, 2007 August 27
Creator: Holloway, John L., 1925-
Date Created: 2007-08-27
Subjects--Topical: African American schools, African American neighborhoods, Race relations, School integration, Marching bands, Music--Instruction and study, Jazz musicians, Jazz--Instruction and study
Description: John L. Holloway recounts his almost forty years as a high school band director and jazz musician in Charlotte, North Carolina. Mr. Holloway describes moving from Durham, North Carolina to Charlotte in 1950 after completing his education to teach ...

Title: John Love oral history interview, 2004 April 9
Creator: Love, John Willie, 1943-
Date Created: 2004-04-09
Subjects--Topical: Civil rights movement, Segregation in education, Racism, Race relations, Discrimination in employment, African American postal service employees, African American golfers
Description: South Carolina native John W. Love discusses his life in Charlotte, North Carolina, and his personal experiences with segregation, the civil rights movement, integration, and race relations in the city. Originally from Chester, South Carolina, Mr....

Title: Jonathan Scoggin oral history interview, 2004 November 20
Creator: Scoggin, Jonathan D., 1947-
Date Created: 2004-11-20
Subjects--Topical: Racism, Race discrimination, White supremacy movements
Description: Jonathan Scoggin, son of South Carolina Ku Klux Klan Grand Dragon Robert E. Scoggin, describes his life and his father's involvement with the KKK. Mr. Scoggin remembers his father as a strict disciplinarian with entrenched opinions who saw the Kla...

Title: Loy H. Witherspoon oral history interview 5, 2010 May 25
Creator: Witherspoon, Loy H., 1930-2017
Date Created: 2010-05-25
Subjects--Topical: Religion--Study and teaching (Higher), Education, Higher, Universities and colleges, Universities and colleges--Administration, Public universities and colleges--Religion
Description: In this second of seven interviews given by Loy Witherspoon and conducted by Christina Wright, Dr. Witherspoon describes his time attending Boston University for his PhD in the New Testament, his first academic job at Dakota Wesleyan University, a...

Title: Loy H. Witherspoon oral history interview 9, 2010 June 29
Creator: Witherspoon, Loy H., 1930-2017
Date Created: 2010-06-29
Subjects--Topical: Education, Higher, Universities and colleges, Public universities and colleges--Administration, Public universities and colleges--Planning, African Americans--Civil rights, College students--Religious life, Public universities and colleges--Libraries
Description: In this sixth of seven interviews given by Loy Witherspoon and conducted by Christina Wright, Dr. Witherspoon discusses faculty governance at UNC Charlotte and how it changed from when he began employment with the university in 1964 through the ea...

Title: Peggy Scoggin Holland oral history interview 2, 2005 July 26
Creator: Holland, Peggy Scoggin, 1957-
Date Created: 2005-07-26
Subjects--Topical: White supremacy movements, Anti-communist movements, Right-wing extremists, Political persecution, People with disabilities--Family relationships, Prisoners, Prisoners--Employment
Description: In this second interview, mortgage bank accountant Peggy Scoggin Holland defends her father Robert Scoggin, a former Grand Dragon of the Ku Klux Klan (KKK). Mrs. Holland begins by describing her father's work history, time in the Navy, and views o...

Title: Sidney Freeman oral history interview 1, 2003 May 21
Creator: Freeman, Sidney L.
Date Created: 2003-05-21
Subjects--Topical: Civil rights movements, Civil rights demonstrations, Civil rights, Segregation, Discrimination in education, School integration, Education--Political aspects, Trials, litigation, etc., Equality, Race relations, Racism, College teachers, Unitarian churches--Clergy
Description: Rev. Dr. Sidney L. Freeman, the longtime minister of the Unitarian Universalist Church of Charlotte (UUCC), recounts his involvement in the city's civil rights movement. Originally from Wisconsin, Dr. Freeman moved to Charlotte in 1957 to take the...

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...

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