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Title: Darryl Gaston oral history interview, 2015 November 2
Creator: Gaston, D. Reginald (Darryl Reginald)
Date Created: 2015-11-02
Subjects--Topical: Race discrimination, Community development, Urban, Citizens' associations
Description: Darryl Reginald Gaston served as the President of the Druid Hills Neighborhood Association in Charlotte North Carolina for nearly a decade. Born in 1961, Mr. Gaston grew up on Edison Street, located in Druid Hills, which he describes as a tight-kn...

Title: David Sanders oral history interview 1, 2021 March 9
Creator: Sanders, David Barrington
Date Created: 2021-03-09
Subjects--Topical: College students, Universities and colleges--Alumni and alumnae, African Americans--Education, Race discrimination, First-generation college students
Description: David Sanders, who earned both his Bachelor of Arts in Psychology and his Master's in Education from UNC Charlotte, describes his family background and his experiences as an undergraduate between 1969 and 1973. [All times are approximate]. In...

Title: Donna Thompson oral history interview, 2020 November 2
Creator: Thompson, Donna Jacqueline
Date Created: 2020-11-22
Subjects--Topical: COVID-19 (Disease), Race discrimination, Social justice, Presidents--Election, Distance education, Mental health
Description: UNC Charlotte student Donna Thompson shares her experiences of 2020. During this interview, Thompson discusses how the COVID-19 pandemic, fight for racial justice and presidential election have affected her personally. She recounts personal experi...

Title: Fotuchang, Nicole oral history interview, 2020 December 13
Creator: Fotuchang, Nicole
Date Created: 2020-12-13
Subjects--Topical: COVID-19 (Disease), Black lives matter movement, Race discrimination, Social justice, Police brutality, Distance education
Description: UNC Charlotte student Nicole Fotuchang discusses her experiences during 2020 with reference to COVID-19, racial injustices, remote learning, and other topics. Specific personal stories include her relation to the Black Lives Matter movement and pr...

Title: Geraldine T. Powe oral history interview, 2005 March 20
Creator: Powe, Geraldine T. (Geraldine Torrence), 1922-2012
Date Created: 2005-03-20
Subjects--Topical: African Americans--Segregation, Segregation in education, African American schools, African American school children, School discipline, Corporal punishment of children, School integration, Race discrimination, Public welfare, Voluntarism, Values--Religious aspects--Christianity
Description: Geraldine Powe discusses her education in segregated schools in Charlotte, North Carolina. She talks about positive relationships between parents and teachers; living briefly in New York City as a student; school discipline, including paddling in ...

Title: Harvey Gantt oral history interview, 2021 July 6
Creator: Gantt, Harvey B. (Harvey Bernard), 1943-
Date Created: 2021-07-06
Subjects--Topical: Young Men's Christian associations, Social integration, Race discrimination
Description: Harvey Gantt settled in Charlotte, North Carolina in the early 1970s after becoming the first African American to attend Clemson University, where he studied architecture and urban planning. He became a key figure in Charlotte's business and ...

Title: Isaiah Smith oral history interview, 2001 November 3
Creator: Smith, Isaiah, 1933-2012
Date Created: 2001-11-03
Subjects--Topical: African American families, Families, Gardening, Community gardens, African Americans--Segregation, Race relations, Race discrimination, Almanacs, Fertilizers, Greenhouse gardening, Vegetable gardening
Description: Isaiah Smith describes his experience as a recreational gardener at Wilmore Community Garden located in Charlotte, North Carolina starting in the early 1990s. He shares tips on how to cultivate a proper garden, his favorite vegetables and ways to ...

Title: Jack Claiborne oral history interview 1, 2003 June 5
Creator: Claiborne, Jack
Date Created: 2003-06-05
Subjects--Topical: Editorials, Sports journalism, Newspapers, Journalists, Newspaper editors, Segregation, Race discrimination, Race relations
Description: Jack Claiborne, former editor at the Charlotte Observer and former director of public relations at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte (UNC Charlotte), reflects on his life, work, and the city of Charlotte. Mr. Claiborne talks about his ...

Title: Jacob Matson oral history interview, 2000 December 5
Creator: Matson, Jacob Ethan
Date Created: 2020-12-05
Subjects--Topical: COVID-19 (Disease), Race discrimination, Social justice, Distance education
Description: UNC Charlotte student Jacob Matson discusses his experience in 2020, during the Coronavirus pandemic and a time of social and racial injustice across America, with a focus on Charlotte and Matthews, North Carolina. Topics discussed include his exp...

Title: James L. Ross oral history interview 3, 2005 March 22
Creator: Ross, James L., 1934-
Date Created: 2005-03-22
Subjects--Topical: African American neighborhoods, African Americans--Segregation, Segregation in education, Race discrimination, Discrimination in employment, Race relations, Community organization, Group relations training, Civil rights movements
Description: James Ross, a native of Mecklenburg County, discusses his experiences with racial segregation and civil rights activism in Charlotte, North Carolina. Growing up in rural Grier Heights, Mr. Ross attended Billingsville Rosenwald Elementary School an...

Title: Johnny C. Taylor Jr. oral history interview 2, 2004 May 12
Creator: Taylor, Johnny C., 1968-
Date Created: 2004-05-12
Subjects--Topical: Lawyers, African Americans--Social conditions, Race discrimination, Voluntarism, African American business enterprises
Description: Johnny C. Taylor Jr. recounts his education and his career as a corporate lawyer. He speaks about discrimination in corporate America he has faced as an African American, and how he has handled it. He also discusses his volunteer work giving back ...

Title: Johnson, Kylie oral history interview, 2020 November 23
Creator: Johnson, Kylie Gabrielle
Date Created: 2020-11-23
Subjects--Topical: COVID-19 (Disease), Race discrimination, Social justice, Distance education
Description: UNC Charlotte student Kylie Johnson discusses her experience in 2020 amidst the Covid-19 pandemic, as well as in the setting of racial injustices across the nation, mainly focused in Charlotte and Mooresville, North Carolina. Topics discussed incl...

Title: Jonathan Scoggin oral history interview, 2004 November 20
Creator: Scoggin, Jonathan D., 1947-
Date Created: 2004-11-20
Subjects--Topical: Racism, Race discrimination, White supremacy movements
Description: Jonathan Scoggin, son of South Carolina Ku Klux Klan Grand Dragon Robert E. Scoggin, describes his life and his father's involvement with the KKK. Mr. Scoggin remembers his father as a strict disciplinarian with entrenched opinions who saw the Kla...

Title: Kaitlyn Collins oral history interview, 2020 November 18
Creator: Collins, Kaitlyn (Kaitlyn Taylor)
Date Created: 2020-11-18
Subjects--Topical: COVID-19 (Disease), Race discrimination, Social justice, Presidents--Election, Natural disasters
Description: Kaitlyn Collins discusses her experiences in 2020 as a sophomore enrolled at UNC Charlotte. Topics covered include the COVID-19 pandemic, racial injustices, the 2020 election, and her personal experiences with each topic.

Title: Katie Grier oral history interview, 2001 October 27
Creator: Grier, Katie, 1925-2010
Date Created: 2001-10-27
Subjects--Topical: Rural families, African American families, Country life, Gardening, Vegetable gardening, Community gardens, Depressions, Canning and preserving, Race relations, African Americans--Segregation, Race discrimination, School integration, Family farms, Domestic animals
Description: Katie Grier shares information about growing up in Mecklenburg County, North Carolina, living in the Wilmore neighborhood in Charlotte, North Carolina for over thirty years, and her involvement with gardening throughout her life. She describes her...

Title: Kelsey Romney oral history interview, 2020 November 18
Creator: Romney, Kelsey Marie
Date Created: 2020-11-18
Subjects--Topical: COVID-19 (Disease), Race discrimination, Social justice, Presidents--Election, Natural disasters, Distance education
Description: UNC Charlotte Education major Kelsey Romney discusses her experiences regarding events that occurred during 2020 from her perspective as a citizen and as a student. Topics discussed include her thoughts about starting a new decade, the COVID-19 pa...

Title: Mahita Sadula oral history interview, 2020 December 6
Creator: Sadula, Mahita Reddy
Date Created: 2020-12-06
Subjects--Topical: COVID-19 (Disease), Race discrimination, Social justice, Presidents--Election, Distance education, Mental health, Black lives matter movement
Description: UNC Charlotte student Mahita Sadula reflects on her experiences in the year 2020. During the interview, she speaks about the COVID-19 pandemic, the fight for racial justice, the 2020 presidential election, and how these events have transformed her...

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: Naomi White-Hewitt oral history interview, 2002 November 1
Creator: White-Hewitt, Naomi
Date Created: 2002-11-01
Subjects--Topical: African American families, African Americans--Segregation, Busing for school integration, Land use, Rural, Race relations, Race discrimination, Racism, Family farms, Camp meetings, Teachers, Deeds, Water--Pollution
Description: Naomi White-Hewitt discusses her family's history in Catawba County, North Carolina and her experiences as an African American woman living in a primarily white, rural community. Mrs. White-Hewitt talks about camp meetings, race relations in the a...

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 ...

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