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Title: Aayla Alexander oral history interview, 2021 March 19
Creator: Alexander, Aayla
Date Created: 2021-03-19
Subjects--Topical: College students, Universities and colleges--Alumni and alumnae, African Americans--Education
Description: Aayla Alexander discusses her experiences as an undergraduate student and a graduate student at UNC Charlotte from 2008-2009 and 2014-2016. [All times approximate]. Growing up in Fayetteville, North Carolina and transferring to UNC Charlotte from ...

Title: Chenille Cooper oral history interview, 2021 February 5
Creator: Cooper, Chenille
Date Created: 2021-02-05
Subjects--Topical: College students, Universities and colleges--Alumni and alumnae, African Americans--Education, Police shootings, College students--Transfer
Description: Chenille Cooper shares her experience as an undergraduate transfer student at UNC Charlotte from 2013 to 2015 and as a graduate student in 2018. [All times are approximate] Chenille discusses her decision to transfer to UNC Charlotte and her love ...

Title: D Evans oral history interview, 2018 May 7
Creator: Evans, D
Date Created: 2018-05-07
Subjects--Topical: Coming out (Sexual orientation), Closeted LGBTQ+ people, Homophobia--Religious aspects--Christianity, AIDS (Disease)--Patients--Services for, Homophobia, Racism
Description: In this interview, D. Evans, a founding member of One Voice Chorus, an LGBTQ choir in Charlotte North Carolina, shares her experience being a gay, biracial woman in North Carolina. Ms. Evans discusses her difficult childhood and the move from Long...

Title: Daniela Recabarren oral history interview 2021, November 1
Creator: Recabarren, Daniela
Date Created: 2021-11-01
Subjects--Topical: Immigrants, English language--Study and teaching--Foreign speakers, Psychology, Social workers, College students
Description: Dr. Daniela Recabarren, Assistant Director for Multicultural and Equity Initiatives for the Center of Counseling and Psychological Services at UNC Charlotte, discusses how being an immigrant has affected her life and worldview. She was born in Cal...

Title: Frances Curry Kerr oral history interview, 2016 December 16
Creator: Kerr, Frances C. (Frances Curry), 1928-
Date Created: 2016-12-16
Subjects--Topical: Lesbians, Gay community, Parents of queer people, Homophobia, Homosexuality--Religious aspects--Baptists
Description: In this interview, Frances C. Kerr recounts her involvement in the process by which Myers Park Baptist Church adopted an LGBTQ affirming policy in 2002, her reasons for wanting to make this policy happen, and how this has changed her life as a chu...

Title: Genevieve Barnhart oral history interview, 2014 July 24
Creator: Barnhart, Genevieve, 1963-
Date Created: 2014-07-24
Subjects--Topical: Women college presidents, Education, Higher, Women in higher education, Public universities and colleges
Description: In this interview, Bonnie Cone's niece Ann McWhirter, her great-niece Genevieve Barnhart, and Ann's husband Bill McWhirter share their memories of Bonnie Cone. They describe her persuasiveness and enabling of others, her motivation and w...

Title: James Yancey and Ozener Yancey oral history interview, 2004 March 23
Creator: Yancey, James A., 1932-
Date Created: 2004-03-23
Subjects--Topical: African Americans--Segregation, African American business enterprises, African American churches, African Americans--Religion, African American schools, African American neighborhoods, African American families, School sports, Urban renewal
Description: James and Ozener Yancey share their experiences in the Brooklyn neighborhood of Charlotte, North Carolina, also known as Second Ward. Mr. Yancey discusses his career as a juvenile probation officer and social worker. He describes the urban renewal...

Title: James Yancey, Ida James, and Ozener Yancey oral history interview, 2004 March 16
Creator: Yancey, James A., 1932-
Date Created: 2004-03-16
Subjects--Topical: African Americans--Segregation, African American churches, African Americans--Religion, African American schools, African American neighborhoods, Urban renewal
Description: James Yancey, Ida James, and Ozener Yancey share their memories of Friendship Missionary Baptist Church, which was located in the Brooklyn neighborhood of Charlotte, North Carolina, also known as Second Ward, until 1970. All three interviewees dis...

Title: Macon Stewart oral history interview, 2021 February 12
Creator: Stewart, Macon
Date Created: 2021-02-12
Subjects--Topical: College students, Universities and colleges--Alumni and alumnae
Description: UNC Charlotte alumna Macon Stewart discusses her experiences as a student at the University between 1996 and 1999. [All times are approximate]. Introduction and personal background growing up in Greensboro North Carolina [00:37]. Decision to apply...

Title: Mark Smith oral history interview, 2021 March 21
Creator: Smith, Mark
Date Created: 2021-03-21
Subjects--Topical: Gay pride week, Gay pride celebrations, Community organization, LGBTQ+ visibility, LGBTQ+ communities, HIV/AIDS, LGBTQ+ Buddhists
Description: Mr. Mark Smith discusses his experiences in organizing Pride events in Winston-Salem, North Carolina and how the HIV/AIDs crisis inspired him to get more involved with the LGBTQ+ community as a result of his background in social work. Topics discu...

Title: Susan Hicks oral history interview, 1979 May 25
Creator: Hicks, Susan Bible, 1893-1996
Date Created: 1979-05-25
Subjects--Topical: War work--Red Cross, Social service, Nonprofit organizations
Description: Susan Hicks gives a brief history of the American Red Cross, particularly how it was organized and functioned in Charlotte, North Carolina during and after World War I. Topics discussed include types of social services provided by the Red Cross, o...

Title: Teresa Villamarin oral history interview, 2002 September 20
Creator: Villamarin, Teresa I. (Teresa Isabel)
Date Created: 2002-09-20
Subjects--Topical: Latin Americans, Hispanic Americans, Emigration and immigration, Feminism, Sexism, Latin Americans--Social conditions, Poor, Poverty, Voluntarism, Immigrants--Political activity
Description: Teresa Villamarin discusses immigrating from Bogota, Colombia as a teenager with her family to New York City for better opportunities, and her eventual journey to Charlotte, North Carolina. She discusses the conservative culture of her native Colo...

Title: Terry Tiamd oral history interview, 2007 April 27
Creator: Tiamd, Terry
Date Created: 2004-05-02
Subjects--Topical: African Americans--Segregation, African Americans--Education, Segregation in education, African American neighborhoods, African American families, African American elementary schools, Segregation in transportation, Youth--Societies and clubs, Civil rights movements, School integration, African Americans--Social conditions, Community organization
Description: Terry Tiamd recalls growing up in the Paw Creek community, which was later annexed by Charlotte, North Carolina, and differences that she perceived before and after desegregation in the 1950s and 1960s. She discusses having to walk a mile to atten...