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Title: Arneichia Green oral history interview, 2016 April 20
Creator: Green, Arneichia, 1965-
Date Created: 2016-04-20
Subjects--Topical: Gentrification, African American families, African American neighborhoods, Urban poor--Social conditions
Description: Arneichia Green discusses the Optimist Park neighborhood in Charlotte, North Carolina, where she has lived since 1997. She stresses her appreciation for the opportunity to move into a Habitat home through the Jimmy and Rosalynn Carter Work Project...

Title: Cecelia Johnston oral history interview, 2015 October 22
Creator: Johnston, Cecelia, 1951-
Date Created: 2015-10-22
Subjects--Topical: Drug traffic, Gentrification, African American families, African American neighborhoods, Urban poor--Social conditions, Urban transportation--Public opinion
Description: Cecelia Johnston discusses her life and involvement in the Optimist Park community in Charlotte, North Carolina. Ms. Johnston is a longtime resident of the neighborhood and treasurer for the Optimist Park Community Association. She stresses the si...

Title: Cynthia Horton oral history interview, 2016 March 16
Creator: Horton, Cynthia, 1955-
Date Created: 2016-03-16
Subjects--Topical: Gentrification, Cities and towns--Growth, African American families, African American neighborhoods, Urban poor--Social conditions
Description: Cynthia Horton, a new member of the Optimist Park neighborhood, reflects on her childhood in Wilmington, North Carolina and notes regret that her decision to marry early prevented her from going to college. She discusses her impression that the Op...

Title: David Ruch oral history interview, 2017 November 20
Creator: Ruch, David (Life coach)
Date Created: 2017-11-20
Subjects--Topical: Counseling, Personal coaching, Homelessness, Church, Community development, School integration, Gentrification, African American neighborhoods
Description: David Ruch served as a board adviser for the Optimist Park Community Association in 2017. Raised in South Bend, Indiana, Mr. Ruch details his experience in integrated public schools, his move to Charlotte in the early 2000s, and how his faith and ...

Title: Denny Hammack oral history interview, 2021 September 23
Creator: Hammack, Denny
Date Created: 2021-09-23
Subjects--Topical: Young Men's Christian associations, Cities and towns--Growth, Gentrification
Description: Longtime YMCA board member Denny Hammack has been especially involved with the Johnston YMCA, which began as a project of the Johnston Mill in the early 1950s. The North Charlotte area, now known as North Davidson or NoDa, has undergone many chang...

Title: George Little oral history interview, 2015 November 11
Creator: Little, George, 1992-
Date Created: 2015-11-11
Subjects--Topical: Gentrification, African American families, African American neighborhoods, Urban poor--Social conditions, School integration, Cities and towns--Growth, Social mobility, Race relations
Description: George Little shares his experiences growing up in the Optimist Park neighborhood of Charlotte, North Carolina, where his parents built their home with Habitat for Humanity. Having lived in the neighborhood for twenty-three years, he discusses bei...

Title: Girvaud Justice oral history interview 2, 2006 August 11
Creator: Justice, Girvaud, 1944-
Date Created: 2006-08-11
Subjects--Topical: African American neighborhoods, African Americans--Segregation, Discrimination in education, School integration, Segregation in education, Racism in education, Civil rights, African American families, Urban renewal, Gentrification, City planning--Citizen participation, Drug traffic--Social aspects, Public housing
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. Board ...

Title: Girvaud Justice oral history interview 3, 2006 August 25
Creator: Justice, Girvaud, 1944-
Date Created: 2006-08-25
Subjects--Topical: African American neighborhoods, Gentrification, City planning, Community development corporations, Community development, Urban, Citizens' associations
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: Gwendolyn Burris oral history interview, 2016 March 16
Creator: Burris, Gwendolyn, 1954-
Date Created: 2016-03-16
Subjects--Topical: School integration, Gentrification, Segregation in education, African American families, African American neighborhoods, Urban poor--Social conditions
Description: Gwendolyn Burris is a Charlotte native who moved to the Optimist Park community in 1987. She shares her memories of growing up in downtown Charlotte and details some of the challenges her family faced, including school integration in the early 197...

Title: Harold Miller oral history interview, 2015 October 22
Creator: Miller, Harold, 1957-
Date Created: 2015-10-22
Subjects--Topical: Gentrification, African American families, African American neighborhoods, Urban poor--Social conditions
Description: Harold Miller discusses living in the Optimist Park neighborhood in Charlotte, North Carolina for twenty-seven years. He grew up with twelve siblings in Charlotte and compares his upbringing with the experiences of contemporary children. He descri...

Title: Henry Heath oral history interview, 2015 October 17
Creator: Heath, Henry, 1942-
Date Created: 2015-10-17
Subjects--Topical: African Americans--Music, African American families, African American neighborhoods, Gentrification, Urban poor--Social conditions, Segregation in education, Racism, Civil rights movements
Description: Henry Heath, a native of Charlotte, North Carolina, describes his life and his involvement in the Optimist Park community since 1987. Mr. Heath details his childhood growing up close to Beatties Ford Road, including his education at segregated loc...

Title: James L. Atkinson oral history interview, 2015 October 22
Creator: Atkinson, James, 1954-
Date Created: 2015-10-22
Subjects--Topical: Gentrification, African American families, African American neighborhoods, Urban poor--Social conditions, School integration, Cities and towns--Growth, Social mobility
Description: James Atkinson discusses his life and his family's long term involvement with the Optimist Park neighborhood in Charlotte, North Carolina, including his role as an adviser to the Optimist Park Community Association. He describes the challenges of ...

Title: Jeffrey Leak oral history interview, 2004 April 5
Creator: Leak, Jeffrey B., 1968-
Date Created: 2004-04-05
Subjects--Topical: Interracial friendship, Middle class African Americans, Race relations, School integration, Social integration, Urban renewal, Gentrification, Affirmative action programs, Civil rights movements, Cities and towns--Growth
Description: UNC Charlotte professor Jeffrey Leak discusses his family's history in the Charlotte, North Carolina region and recounts his experiences growing up in West Charlotte and attending recently integrated schools in the Charlotte-Mecklenburg school sys...

Title: Kristi McCray oral history interview, 2017 November 19
Creator: McCray, Kristi T. (Kristi Turner)
Date Created: 2017-11-19
Subjects--Topical: Gentrification, Discrimination in housing, Transportation, Cities and towns--Growth, African American families, African American neighborhoods, Urban poor--Social conditions
Description: Kristi McCray provides a detailed account of the Optimist Park community located in Charlotte, North Carolina and its growth in the 1980s. She recalls her experience as one of the first Habitat for Humanity home owners in the neighborhood, and the...

Title: Maggie Coleman oral history interview, 2015 November 7
Creator: Coleman, Maggie, 1933-
Date Created: 2015-11-07
Subjects--Topical: Transportation, Citizens' associations, Gentrification, Urban renewal
Description: Maggie Coleman served as the secretary, vice president, and president of the Druid Hills Neighborhood Association during the 1980s. Originally from Chester, South Carolina, Mrs. Coleman moved to Charlotte, North Carolina, in 1955 in hopes of bette...

Title: Marvin Price oral history interview 1, 2019 January 23
Creator: Price, Marvin E. (Marvin Elijah), 1948-
Date Created: 2019-01-23
Subjects--Topical: Racism, Gentrification, African American neighborhoods, African American schools, African American business enterprises, Barbers, Rosenwald schools
Description: Marvin Price, longtime resident of Grier Heights, a historically African American neighborhood in Charlotte North Carolina, discusses his personal and family history. Raised in Grier Heights from the age of three, Mr. Price describes his education...

Title: Mary Heath oral history interview, 2015 October 17
Creator: Heath, Mary, 1953-
Date Created: 2015-10-17
Subjects--Topical: Gentrification, African American families, African American neighborhoods, Urban poor--Social conditions, School integration, Cities and towns--Growth, Social mobility
Description: Mary Heath, a Charlotte native, describes her life and experiences as a longtime resident of Optimist Park. Mrs. Heath discusses growing up in the Hickory Grove area of Charlotte and how desegregation impacted her education. She describes how she ...

Title: Mary Vaughn oral history interview, 2006 November 18
Creator: Vaughn, Mary, 1938-
Date Created: 2006-11-18
Subjects--Topical: African Americans--Drug use, Gentrification, Race discrimination, Segregation, Urban renewal, Working poor
Description: Mary Vaughn describes her experiences growing up in the segregated Charlotte neighborhood of Brooklyn and shares her opinions on social issues at the time of interview. She recalls the poor quality of the homes in her neighborhood and how her fami...

Title: Mattie Marshall oral history interview 1, 2015 October 31
Creator: Marshall, Mattie, 1948-
Date Created: 2015-10-31
Subjects--Topical: Community development, Gentrification, Urban renewal, Urban transportation, African American families, African American neighborhoods
Description: In this interview, Mattie Marshall, president of the Historic Washington Heights Neighborhood Association in Charlotte North Carolina, discusses her origins as a sharecropper's daughter in Georgia, her family's migration north to New Yor...

Title: Mattie Marshall oral history interview 2, 2015 November 13
Creator: Marshall, Mattie, 1948-
Date Created: 2015-11-13
Subjects--Topical: African American neighborhoods, Urban renewal, Gentrification, Urban transportation, Community development, Police-community relations, Education
Description: In the second of two interviews, Mattie Marshall, the current president of Historic Washington Heights Neighborhood Association in Charlotte, North Carolina, emphasizes the importance of preserving the history of Historic Washington Heights and ho...

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