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Title: "Chatty" Hattie Leeper oral history interview 1, 2006 December 11
Creator: Leeper, Hattie, 1930-
Date Created: 2006-12-11
Subjects--Topical: African American neighborhoods, African American families, Segregation, Segregation in education, Race relations, Corporal punishment of children, Disc jockeys, Popular music radio stations, African American radio stations
Description: In the first of three interviews, radio DJ "Chatty" Hattie Leeper discusses her early life in the Third Ward and Brookhill neighborhoods in Charlotte, North Carolina. She describes her family and neighborhood, and her experiences attending the seg...

Title: Gerson L. Stroud oral history interview, 2001 June 20
Creator: Stroud, Gerson L., 1919-2006
Date Created: 2001-06-20
Subjects--Topical: Race relations, Segregation, African Americans--Education, School integration, Busing for school integration, African American school principals, Public school--Administration, African American soldiers--Social conditions
Description: Gerson L. Stroud recounts his experiences as a lifelong resident of Charlotte as well as his thirty-one year career with the Charlotte-Mecklenburg school system where, as principal of West Charlotte High School, he oversaw that school's racial int...

Title: Nathaniel Washington oral history interview, 2006 November 14
Creator: Washington, Nathaniel, 1941-
Date Created: 2006-11-14
Subjects--Topical: Race relations, Race discrimination, Racism in the workplace, Segregation in education, Urban renewal
Description: Nathaniel Washington describes his early life in the Third Ward section of Charlotte, North Carolina. He discusses his experience in segregated schools during the 1950s-1960s, explaining that there were inequalities as black schools were supplied ...

Title: Vernard Thompson oral history interview, 2006 December 2
Creator: Thompson, Vernard, 1948-
Date Created: 2006-12-02
Subjects--Topical: Racism, Police-community relations, Segregation, African American neighborhoods, African American soldiers--Social conditions, Sports--Social aspects, Urban renewal
Description: Vernard Thompson recounts his early life growing up in Charlotte's Third Ward neighborhood and life in the city's African American community during segregation. He discusses his childhood, his experiences attending segregated schools dur...

Title: Walter Dial oral history interview, 2004 May 12
Creator: Dial, Walter, 1931-
Date Created: 2004-05-12
Subjects--Topical: African American neighborhoods, African Americans--Segregation, African Americans--Social conditions, Segregation in education, Racism, Race relations, Student activities, Manners and customs
Description: Walter Dial reminisces about his childhood and youth growing up in Charlotte's Third Ward and attending local segregated schools in the 1930s and 1940s, including Isabella Wyche Elementary and Second Ward High School. Mr. Dial describes the white ...

Title: Will Hollisby oral history interview, 1979 May 22
Creator: Hollisby, Will, approximately 1903-
Date Created: 1979-05-22
Subjects--Topical: African Americans--Segregation, City and town life, Transportation
Description: Will Hollisby recounts his fifty-seven years living in Charlotte, North Carolina. Topics include working as a landscaper for Charlotte Pipe and Foundry and for private homeowners in Myers Park; using trains, trolleys, and buses within Charlotte an...