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Title: Donnie R. Thrower oral history interview, 1994 October 4
Creator: Thrower, Donnie R. (Donnie Rhyne), 1929-2014
Date Created: 1994-10-04
Subjects--Topical: Cancer--Patients, Hosiery, Nylon, Secretaries, Textile factories, Alzheimer's disease--Patients--Family relationships
Description: Donnie Thrower describes her early life and career in the textile industry in McAdenville and Belmont, North Carolina. She recalls how she quit school at age sixteen in order to go to work at a nylon hosiery mill in Belmont, where she remained for...

Title: Mary Alice Wright oral history interview, 1993 October 31
Creator: Wright, Mary Alice, 1930-2003
Date Created: 1993-10-31
Subjects--Topical: Mills and mill-work, Parents--Death, Grief, Housing, Rural, Country life
Description: Mary Alice Wright discusses growing up in the mill village in Waxhaw, North Carolina. In particular, she describes how she worked in the mill village as a concession stand operator and actively participated in social activities, such as square dan...

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: 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: Tom Snipes oral history interview, 1993 February 25
Creator: Snipes, Walter Thomas, 1932-
Date Created: 1993-02-25
Subjects--Topical: College administrators, College teachers, Universities and colleges--Faculty, Universities and colleges--Curricula, Race relations
Description: Tom Snipes describes his early upbringing in Kannapolis and Raleigh, North Carolina in an autocratic, yet loving home run by his disciplinarian father. He recalls the challenges of growing up during the Depression in a large family with meager res...