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Title: Nettie House oral history interview, 2006 October 24
Creator: House, Nettie S., 1924-
Date Created: 2006-10-24
Subjects--Topical: Textile workers, Depressions, Race relations, School integration
Description: 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...

Title: Virginia Case oral history interview, 1996 September 10
Creator: Case, Virginia, 1918-
Date Created: 1996-09-10
Subjects--Topical: Depressions, Country life, War--Economic aspects, Women in war, Race relations, Urban renewal
Description: 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...

Title: Ben E. Douglas oral history interview 2, 1979 May 23
Creator: Douglas, Ben E. (Ben Elbert), 1894-1981
Date Created: 1979-05-23
Subjects--Topical: Depressions, Municipal government, Urban transportation, Airports--Planning, City planning
Description: Ben Douglas discusses his tenure as mayor of Charlotte, North Carolina from 1935 to 1941. He discusses the structure of city government in the 1920s and explains that he was the first Charlotte mayor to be directly elected by voters. He describes ...

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: Joseph E. Broughton Jr. oral history interview, 2003 March 2
Creator: Broughton, Joseph E., 1918-2011
Date Created: 2003-03-02
Subjects--Topical: Depressions, U.S. states--Economic conditions, Country life, Education, Rural, Vocational school students, War, Airplanes, Military
Description: 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...

Title: Mattie Creigton oral history interview, 2003 March 5
Creator: Creigton, Mattie, 1912-2004
Date Created: 2003-03-05
Subjects--Topical: Depressions, Family farms, Farm life, City and town life, Roads--Design and construction, Amusements, Voting, Christian life
Description: 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...

Title: Chris Folk oral history interview 3, 1998 October 15
Creator: Folk, Chris Evans, 1930-2010
Date Created: 1998-10-15
Subjects--Topical: Education, Depressions, Mills and mill-work, Cities and towns, Poliomyelitis, Epidemics, Newspapers
Description: 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...

Title: Winslow H. Hartford oral history interview, 1979 May 24
Creator: Hartford, Winslow H.
Date Created: 1979-05-24
Subjects--Topical: Depressions, Manners and customs, Citizens' associations, Local government--Citizen participation
Description: Winslow H. Hartford describes his experiences growing up in Newton, Massachusetts and attending Boston University during the time of the Great Depression. Other topics discussed include his work as a professor at Belmont Abbey College, national tr...

Title: Gregory S. Hartsell, Frank Graham, and Tim Sloop oral history interview, 2003 August 10
Creator: Hartsell, Gregory S. (Gregory Scott)
Date Created: 2003-08-10
Subjects--Topical: 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
Description: 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...

Title: Oni Wilson oral history interview, 2003 February 26
Creator: Wilson, Oni, 1915-2009
Date Created: 2003-02-26
Subjects--Topical: Depressions, Family farms, Farm life, Cotton, Political and social views, Baseball, Textile industry, Textile workers--Labor unions, Company towns, Baptists
Description: 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...

Title: Lester Youngblood oral history interview, 2003 February 22
Creator: Youngblood, William Lester, 1915-2012
Date Created: 2003-02-22
Subjects--Topical: Depressions, Family farms, Farm life, Dairy farming, Milk trade, Cotton trade, Wages, Country life, Amusements, War, Armed Forces
Description: 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...

Title: Willie Coleman oral history interview, 2001 November 1
Creator: Coleman, Willie S., 1924-2018
Date Created: 2001-11-01
Subjects--Topical: Rural families, Country life, African American families, Depressions, Community gardens, Cotton growing, Gardening, Vegetable gardening, Canning and preserving, Cooking, American, Folklore
Description: 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 ...

Title: William C. Friday oral history interview, 2012 May 1
Creator: Friday, William C. (William Clyde)
Date Created: 2012-05-01
Subjects--Topical: Public universities and colleges--Administration, Women college presidents, Education, Higher, Education--Political aspects, Depressions
Description: 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...

Title: Loy H. Witherspoon oral history interview 2, 1991
Creator: Witherspoon, Loy H., 1930-2017
Date Created: 1991
Subjects--Topical: Orphanages, Civil rights movements, Depressions, Teacher-student relationships, Student movements, Methodist Church--Clergy
Description: 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...

Title: Henrietta Wallace oral history interview, 1979 October 23
Creator: Wallace, Henrietta, 1910-1981
Date Created: 1979-10-23
Subjects--Topical: Depressions, Jewish families, Herb industry
Description: 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...

Title: Martin Grossman oral history interview, 1979 May 24
Creator: Grossman, Martin L. (Martin Luther), 1903-2002
Date Created: 1979-05-24
Subjects--Topical: Depressions, Electrical engineering, Electric industry workers, Work environment, Power-plants, Electric utilities, Tobacco industry, Cost control, Cities and towns--Growth
Description: Martin Grossman recounts his long career as an engineer beginning in the early twentieth century and his experiences in Charlotte, North Carolina, after moving there in 1954. He describes his work in the energy sector with Celanese Corporation and...

Title: Jeanne Scranton oral history interview, 1979 May 25
Creator: Scranton, Jeanne Tingle, 1909-1991
Date Created: 1979-05-25
Subjects--Topical: Depressions, Church history, Methodist Church, Cities and towns--Growth, Carnegie libraries, Church finance
Description: Librarian and church archivist Jeanne Scranton discusses her work with the First United Methodist Church in Charlotte, North Carolina, which she joined in 1929, and Charlotte church history dating back to 1815. She also describes how Charlotte's f...

Title: Harvie C. Jordan oral history interview, 1979 October 23
Creator: Jordan, Harvie C., Sr., 1910-1992
Date Created: 1979-10-23
Subjects--Topical: Printing industry, Depressions, Newspaper publishing, Entrepreneurship
Description: Harvie C. Jordan recalls co-founding his paper company, the Dixie Tag and Envelope Manufacturing Company, describes contract work that it undertook for the U.S. government during World War II, and discusses its significance in Charlotte, North Car...

Title: Samuel C. Poteat oral history interview, 1979 May 22
Creator: Poteat, Samuel C. (Samuel Charles), 1896-1981
Date Created: 1979-05-22
Subjects--Topical: Cities and towns--Growth, City and town life, Depressions, Country life, Family farms
Description: Samuel Poteat describes his experiences overseas serving in the Sixth Machine Gun Battalion while plagued with the flu and measles during World War I. Other topics discussed include cotton farming in Huntersville, North Carolina; businesses and en...

Title: Jessie Withers oral history interview, 1979 May 22
Creator: Withers, Jessie, 1909-2006
Date Created: 1979-05-22
Subjects--Topical: Working mothers, Cooking, City and town life, Depressions
Description: Jessie Withers describes working as a cook in various establishments around Charlotte, North Carolina during the twentieth century, including Good Samaritan Hospital, Windsor's Drive-In, the Ringside Grill, St. Martin's Episcopal Church, and the E...

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