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Dorlan D. Mork oral history interview 1, 2014 July 7
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Creator
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Mork, Dorlan, 1932-
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Date Created
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2014-07-07
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Subjects--Topical
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Public universities and colleges, Public universities and colleges--Administration, Public universities and colleges--Faculty, Women college presidents, Depressions
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In this first of two interviews, Dr. Dorlan D. Mork, long-time employee of the University of North Carolina at Charlotte and close friend and neighbor of Bonnie Cone, reflects on his own career and on the life and legacy of Dr. Cone. He begins by ...
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Mildred English oral history interview, 2012 September 17
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Creator
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English, Mildred, 1925-2019
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Date Created
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2012-09-17
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Subjects--Topical
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Women college presidents, Education--Political aspects, Women college administrators, Nontraditional college students, Depressions
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In this interview, Mildred English, Monroe native and long-time employee of Charlotte College and the University of North Carolina at Charlotte, tells of her personal history and shares her first-hand knowledge of Bonnie Cone. She begins by speaki...
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William C. Friday oral history interview, 2012 May 1
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Creator
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Friday, William C. (William Clyde)
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Date Created
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2012-05-01
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Subjects--Topical
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Public universities and colleges--Administration, Women college presidents, Education, Higher, Education--Political aspects, Depressions
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Description
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In this interview, William "Bill" Friday, long-time president of the University of North Carolina System, shares his memories of Bonnie Cone, the founder of Charlotte College. He describes Ms. Cone's drive to establish a university in Charlot...
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Nettie House oral history interview, 2006 October 24
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Creator
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House, Nettie S., 1924-
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Date Created
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2006-10-24
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Subjects--Topical
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Textile workers, Depressions, Race relations, School integration
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Charlotte native Nettie House describes her life growing up in Charlotte's Belmont neighborhood, her experiences during World War II, and her married life in Charlotte during the postwar period. Her father came to Charlotte from Union County to wo...
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Floyd Simmons oral history interview 1, 2004 March 18
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Creator
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Simmons, Floyd, 1923-2008
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Date Created
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2004-03-18
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Subjects--Topical
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Families, Rich people, Families--Economic aspects, Depressions, Businesspeople, Small business, Masculinity, War, Military education, Armed Forces
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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...
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Gregory S. Hartsell, Frank Graham, and Tim Sloop oral history interview, 2003 August 10
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Creator
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Hartsell, Gregory S. (Gregory Scott)
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Date Created
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2003-08-10
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Subjects--Topical
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Country life, Family farms, Farm life, Land use, Rural, Rural families, Depressions, Soil conservation, Natural areas, Zoning, Migrant agricultural laborers, Field crops, Housing development, Genealogy
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Gregory S. Hartsell, Frank Graham, and Tim Sloop illustrate the importance of migrant workers in farming and factors that make raising certain crops difficult on their farms in Rowan County, North Carolina. Subjects discussed include the use of th...
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Mattie Creigton oral history interview, 2003 March 5
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Creator
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Creigton, Mattie, 1912-2004
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Date Created
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2003-03-05
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Subjects--Topical
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Depressions, Family farms, Farm life, City and town life, Roads--Design and construction, Amusements, Voting, Christian life
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Description
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Mattie Creighton, a lifelong Charlottean, recalls growing up during the Great Depression in Charlotte, North Carolina and working as a young woman during the 1930s and 1940s. Ms. Creighton describes her hardships during the time period including s...
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Joseph E. Broughton Jr. oral history interview, 2003 March 2
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Creator
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Broughton, Joseph E., 1918-2011
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Date Created
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2003-03-02
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Subjects--Topical
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Depressions, U.S. states--Economic conditions, Country life, Education, Rural, Vocational school students, War, Airplanes, Military
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Joseph E. Broughton shares what it was like to grow up in Massachusetts during the Great Depression and why he joined World War II. Mr. Broughton was ten years old when the stock market crashed and he got his first job at an ice house to help supp...
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Oni Wilson oral history interview, 2003 February 26
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Creator
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Wilson, Oni, 1915-2009
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Date Created
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2003-02-26
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Subjects--Topical
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Depressions, Family farms, Farm life, Cotton, Political and social views, Baseball, Textile industry, Textile workers--Labor unions, Company towns, Baptists
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Oni Wilson describes his childhood during the Great Depression and growing up on a cotton farm in Davidson, North Carolina. He talks about how his family lost their home in 1929 because of the fall of cotton prices, then rented a home and farmland...
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Lester Youngblood oral history interview, 2003 February 22
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Creator
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Youngblood, William Lester, 1915-2012
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Date Created
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2003-02-22
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Subjects--Topical
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Depressions, Family farms, Farm life, Dairy farming, Milk trade, Cotton trade, Wages, Country life, Amusements, War, Armed Forces
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William Lester Youngblood recounts his experiences living on a cotton and dairy farm in Mecklenburg County, North Carolina during the Great Depression. He talks about how rural communities were impacted differently than the cities and describes ho...
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Willie Coleman oral history interview, 2001 November 1
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Creator
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Coleman, Willie S., 1924-2018
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Date Created
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2001-11-01
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Subjects--Topical
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Rural families, Country life, African American families, Depressions, Community gardens, Cotton growing, Gardening, Vegetable gardening, Canning and preserving, Cooking, American, Folklore
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Willie Coleman recounts her lifelong involvement with gardening and her memories of her family. She discusses growing up in Matthews, North Carolina, attending school in Steele Creek, living through the Great Depression as a child, and working at ...
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Chris Folk oral history interview 3, 1998 October 15
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Creator
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Folk, Chris Evans, 1930-2010
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Date Created
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1998-10-15
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Subjects--Topical
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Education, Depressions, Mills and mill-work, Cities and towns, Poliomyelitis, Epidemics, Newspapers
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Dr. Chris Folk, former associate superintendent of Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools, recounts his childhood growing up in the Charlotte area during World War II and his experiences attending Duke University in the 1940s and 1950s. The son of a textil...
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Julia Perryman oral history interview, 1997 September 26
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Creator
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Perryman, Julia Royals, 1926-2009
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Date Created
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1997-09-26
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Subjects--Topical
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Depressions, Families--Economic aspects, Families--Social life and customs, Nursing, Poliomyelitis
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Julia Perryman recalls her experience growing up in Thomasville, North Carolina in the 1930s and 1940s. She discusses the difficult financial hardships that her family endured after her father was left paralyzed following an illness and could no l...
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Virginia Case oral history interview, 1996 September 10
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Case, Virginia, 1918-
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Date Created
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1996-09-10
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Subjects--Topical
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Depressions, Country life, War--Economic aspects, Women in war, Race relations, Urban renewal
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Virginia Case discusses her family and life in Gastonia, North Carolina. Originally from Pickens County, South Carolina, she and her husband moved to Gastonia in the mid-1930s. Mrs. Case describes how difficult life was during the Great Depression...
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Benjamin F. Wyant Jr. oral history interview, 1994 November 2
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Creator
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Wyant, Benjamin F. (Benjamin Frank), Jr., 1920-1998
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Date Created
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1994-11-02
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Subjects--Topical
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Depressions, African Americans--Employment, Industrial relations, Political and social views, Political parties, Segregation
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Benjamin F. Wyant, Jr. recounts his memories of growing up in the Charlotte neighborhood of Dilworth and of his forty-three year career at Duke Power Company. In particular, he recalls working as a boy at his father's family business during the ch...
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Gladys Lavitan oral history interview 2, 1993 July 1
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Creator
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Lavitan, Gladys, 1916-2014
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Date Created
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1993-07-01
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Subjects--Topical
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Acting, Community theater, Depressions, Radio broadcasting, Radio Talk Shows, Reform Judaism, Theater and society, Jews--Social conditions
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Gladys Lavitan recounts her life and her sixty-three year acting career in Charlotte, North Carolina. She describes growing up in Charlotte during the Depression, the city's reaction to the surprise attack at Pearl Harbor in 1941, and how the...
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Newell Gymnasium group oral history interview, 1993 January 16
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Creator
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Austin, Ernest B., 1926-2014
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Date Created
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1993-01-16
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Subjects--Topical
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Basketball, Basketball for women, Basketball for girls, Basketball--Social aspects, Rural schools, Country life, Gymnasiums, School sports, Depressions
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A group of former Newell High School students, including Ernest B. Austin, Lloyd Cochran, Russell G. Faulk, Francis Freeman, Vera Kimbrell, and several unnamed speakers, discuss the role basketball played in Newell, an unincorporated farming commu...
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Otis Skipper oral history interview, 1993 June 6
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Creator
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Skipper, Otis S. (Otis Sanford), 1917-2002
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Date Created
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1993-01-06
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Subjects--Topical
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Basketball, Basketball teams, Young Men's Christian associations, Basketball--Tournaments, Basketball players, Sports--Social aspects, School sports, Basketball coaches, Basketball--Rules, Basketball stories, Depressions, Discrimination in sports
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Otis Skipper recounts his experiences playing basketball in Charlotte, North Carolina from the 1930s-1950s. He describes starting to play at the age of twelve at the YMCA, and discusses how the athletic director, Carl Link, was instrumental in org...
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Loy H. Witherspoon oral history interview 2, 1991
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Creator
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Witherspoon, Loy H., 1930-2017
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Date Created
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1991
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Subjects--Topical
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Orphanages, Civil rights movements, Depressions, Teacher-student relationships, Student movements, Methodist Church--Clergy
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In this 1991 interview, student Michael Wilson interviewed Dr. Loy Witherspoon about his life experiences in the North Carolina Piedmont. Dr. Witherspoon describes his unusual childhood, the latter part of which was spent at The Children's Home, a...
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Henrietta Wallace oral history interview, 1979 October 23
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Creator
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Wallace, Henrietta, 1910-1981
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Date Created
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1979-10-23
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Subjects--Topical
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Depressions, Jewish families, Herb industry
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Henrietta Wallace discusses her family's Jewish heritage and medicinal herb business, which dates back to the 1850s, and the growth of the Jewish community in North Carolina in the 1800s and 1900s. Other topics discussed include her career as a li...