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Title: ...and we shall take back our land from the Israelis, just as soon as we can safely get out of this bomb shelter.
Creator: Payne, Eugene G., 1919-2010
Date Created: 1970-02-19
Subjects--Topical: Political cartoons, Politics and government--Caricatures and cartoons, Arab-Israeli conflict, War, Bombings
Description: Topics include: Middle East conflict; War of Attrition (1967-1970); Egypt; Israel

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: Bombing penalties cartoon
Creator: Payne, Eugene G., 1919-2010
Date Created: 1970-03-26
Subjects--Topical: Political cartoons, Politics and government--Caricatures and cartoons, Bombings, Domestic terrorism, Radicalism, Politics and government
Description: Topics include: Explosives; Bombs and bombings; Domestic terrorism; Crime; Radicalism; Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI); United States politics and government

Title: Fred Alexander inspecting his home after bombing
Date Created: 1965-11
Subjects--Topical: Public officers, Bombings, African Americans--Civil rights, Civil rights movements

Title: Jimmie Lee Kirkpatrick and H.D. Kirkpatrick oral history interview 1, 2017 October 6
Creator: Kirkpatrick, Jimmie Lee
Date Created: 2017-10-06
Subjects--Topical: Racism, Slavery, Christian life, Football, Segregation in education, Segregation, Race relations, Civil rights movements, Shrine Bowl of the Carolinas (Football), Bombings
Description: In this first of four related interviews, Jimmie Lee Kirkpatrick and H.D. Kirkpatrick discuss their disparate experiences growing up and attending school in segregated Charlotte, North Carolina during the 1950s and 1960s. Jimmie Lee Kirkpatrick ta...

Title: John Archibald oral history interview, 2004 April 1
Creator: Archibald, John, 1925-2008
Date Created: 2004-04-01
Subjects--Topical: Working class families, Working class, Mills and mill-work, Industrial housing, Vocational education, Shipyards, Labor unions, War, Americans--Public opinion, Bombings, Airplanes, Military, Poverty, Racism, Racism--Economic aspects, Work environment, Veterans
Description: John Archibald recounts growing up in the Leakesville-Spray area of Rockingham Country, North Carolina, his time as a soldier during World War II, and his life and career after the war. As Mr. Archibald grew older, he became aware that his educati...

Title: Margaret Alexander oral history interview 1, 2001 April 30
Creator: Alexander, Margaret G. A., 1924-
Date Created: 2001-04-30
Subjects--Topical: African Americans--Segregation, Civil rights movements, African American women civil rights workers, African American women political activists, Segregation in education, School integration, Bombings, Discrimination in public accommodations, Race relations
Description: Margaret Alexander, civil rights activist and wife of civil rights pioneer Kelly Alexander Sr., discusses her involvement in Charlotte's civil rights struggles of the 1950s and 1960s as a member of the Charlotte-Mecklenburg branch of the NAACP. Sh...

Title: Stanford Brookshire oral history interview 1, 1973 February 16
Creator: Brookshire, Stanford R., 1905-1990
Date Created: 1973-02-16
Subjects--Topical: Mayors, Mayors--Election, Country life, Depressions, Family farms, Small business, Boards of trade, Cities and towns--Politics and government, Political campaigns, Sexism in political culture, Political candidates, Elections, Nonpartisan, Urban renewal, African Americans--Segregation, Race relations, Discrimination in public accommodations, Racism, Civil rights movements, Civil rights demonstrations, African Americans--Civil rights, Bombings
Description: Stanford "Stan" Brookshire, the former four-term mayor of Charlotte, North Carolina from 1961-1969, talks about his early life and his time as mayor. He describes his hometown, Troutman, North Carolina, and growing up on a farm that employed tenan...

Title: Stanford Brookshire oral history interview 2, 1973 April 3
Creator: Brookshire, Stanford R., 1905-1990
Date Created: 1973-04-03
Subjects--Topical: Mayors, Civil rights movements, Race relations, Bombings, Municipal water supply, Politics and government, Cities and towns--Politics and government, County government, Cities and towns--Growth, Civic centers--Planning, Urban renewal, City planning, Urbanization, Local transit, Roads--Design and construction--Planning, Roads--Design and construction, Police administration, Civic leaders
Description: In this second interview with Ed Perzel, Stanford Brookshire discusses his experiences as mayor of Charlotte, North Carolina from 1961-1969. He begins by talking about the bombing of four civil rights leader's homes in Charlotte in 1965 and his ro...

Title: Vietnam War cartoon
Creator: Payne, Eugene G., 1919-2010
Date Created: 1968-11-03
Subjects--Topical: Political cartoons, Politics and government--Caricatures and cartoons, Presidents--Election, Bombings, Politics and war
Description: Topics include: Richard Nixon; Vietnam War (1961-1975); 1968 United States presidential election