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Title: Belle Banks oral history interview, 2002 January 25
Creator: Banks, Belle, 1918-2011
Date Created: 2002-01-25
Subjects--Topical: Historic sites, Historic buildings--Conservation and restoration, Historic preservation, Regionalism, Manners and customs
Description: In this interview, librarian and historic preservationist Margaret "Belle" Banks describes her early life in Pennsylvania and Delaware, her move to Charlotte, North Carolina in 1944, and her role in restoring Cedar Grove and the Hugh Torrance Hous...

Title: Earl Raborn oral history interview, 1993 October 21
Creator: Raborn, Earl, 1927-2015
Date Created: 1993-10-21
Subjects--Topical: Foundries--Environmental aspects, Foundries--Management, Industrial relations, Personnel directors, Personnel management, Personnel departments--Employees, Pipe mills, Pollution control industry, Work environment
Description: In this interview, Earl Raborn recounts his forty-five year career in the personnel department of Charlotte Pipe and Foundry. He discusses his role as personnel director and the developments that occurred during his leadership in the personnel dep...

Title: Jeanne Brayboy oral history interview, 1997 September 25
Creator: Brayboy, Jeanne, 1930-
Date Created: 1997-09-25
Subjects--Topical: Music--Study and teaching (Elementary), Segregation in education, School integration, School integration--Public opinion, Busing for school integration, Race relations
Description: Jeanne Brayboy recounts her life, career as an elementary school music teacher, and firsthand experience of Charlotte's schools before and after integration. She moved to Charlotte after college and began teaching in segregated black schools, whic...

Title: Jim Price oral history interview, 1993 June 8
Creator: Price, James Wilson, 1921-2011
Date Created: 1993-06-08
Subjects--Topical: Foundries, Industrial relations, Ironwork, Mechanization, Mechanical engineering, Pipe mills, Piping--Design and construction, Work environment
Description: In this interview, Jim Price recounts his fifty years of service at the Charlotte Pipe and Foundry as well as his Air Force training during World War II. Mr. Price describes the working conditions at Charlotte Pipe as perilous in nature and discus...

Title: Mary Lou Clarke oral history interview, 2001 May 11
Creator: Clarke, Mary Lou, 1932-2006
Date Created: 2001-05-11
Subjects--Topical: Segregation, Civil rights movements, Race relations, Boycotts, Health promotion, AIDS activists, Medical assistants, Nurses' aides
Description: Mary Clarke, Charlotte-Mecklenburg NAACP president (1986-1990), describes her experiences working for the NAACP from the 1950s to the 1990s, with attention given to her early role as a fundraiser and her later work as chapter president. Ms. Clarke...

Title: Mary Nixon oral history interview, 2005 November 18
Creator: Nixon, Mary W., 1941-
Date Created: 2005-11-18
Subjects--Topical: Tobacco farms, Textile workers, Mills and mill-work, Strikes and lockouts, Labor unions, Diabetes, Diabetes in children
Description: Mary Nixon recounts her life and experiences living in rural Yadkin County, North Carolina. She describes growing up on a tobacco farm, how her family grew most of the food they ate, and how she and her siblings would miss school in order to help ...

Title: Tom Gilmore oral history interview, 1996 September 29
Creator: Gilmore, Thomas Odell, Sr., 1936-
Date Created: 1996-09-29
Subjects--Topical: African Americans--Segregation, Segregation in education, Civil rights movements, Political participation, Legislation
Description: Tom Gilmore discusses his career in North Carolina politics and in his family business, Gilmore Plant and Bulb. Born in Julian, North Carolina in 1936, he describes being very close as a young boy to an African American boy of the same age. Mr. Gi...

Title: Wilma Conder oral history interview, 1993 September 22
Creator: Conder, Wilma H., 1923-2014
Date Created: 1993-09-22
Subjects--Topical: Industrial relations, Automation, Foundries--Automation, Pipe mills, Plastics industry and trade, Plastics--Molding, Plastics workers, Shipment of goods, Teams in the workplace, Women blue collar workers, Work environment
Description: In her interview, Wilma Conder recounts her twenty-five years at the Charlotte Pipe and Foundry plastics plant. Mrs. Conder discusses her job as an operator of a large molding machine, noting her pioneering efforts in this position as few women da...