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Title: Courtney Gaillard oral history interview, 2020 November 12
Creator: Gaillard, Courtney
Date Created: 2020-11-12
Subjects--Topical: College students, Universities and colleges--Alumni and alumnae, African Americans--Education, African American college students
Description: In this interview, Courtney Gaillard, an alumna of the University of North Carolina at Charlotte shares memories of her time as a student from 1995-1997. [All time approximate] She discusses her decision to transfer to the university after having ...

Title: Shena' Thornton oral history interview, 2021 January 14
Creator: Thornton, Shena'
Date Created: 2021-01-14
Subjects--Topical: College students, Universities and colleges--Alumni and alumnae, African Americans--Education, Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority
Description: Shena' Thornton, an alumna of the University of North Carolina at Charlotte, discusses her early life and her time as a student from 1982-1987. [All times approximate] Decision to come to UNC-Charlotte [3:36]. How Africana Studies supported B...

Title: Loy H. Witherspoon oral history interview 2, 1991
Creator: Witherspoon, Loy H., 1930-2017
Date Created: 1991
Subjects--Topical: Orphanages, Civil rights movements, Depressions, Teacher-student relationships, Student movements, Methodist Church--Clergy
Description: In this 1991 interview, student Michael Wilson interviewed Dr. Loy Witherspoon about his life experiences in the North Carolina Piedmont. Dr. Witherspoon describes his unusual childhood, the latter part of which was spent at The Children's Home, a...

Title: Loy H. Witherspoon oral history interview 3, 1993 February 19
Creator: Witherspoon, Loy H., 1930-2017
Date Created: 1993-02-19
Subjects--Topical: Teacher-student relationships, Methodist Church--Clergy, Social change
Description: In this 1993 interview, student Mitch Miles interviewed Dr. Loy Witherspoon, founding chair of Religious Studies at UNC Charlotte, who relates his life story and reflects on changes that he witnessed in the American South between the 1930s and the...

Title: Mildred Bauguess oral history interview, 1993 May 14
Creator: Bauguess, Mildred Little, 1932-2013
Date Created: 1993-05-14
Subjects--Topical: Basketball, Basketball for women, Women basketball players, Basketball players, Women athletes, School sports, Basketball stories, Basketball teams, Hosiery workers
Description: Mildred Little Bauguess discusses her basketball career at Claremont High School in Claremont, North Carolina and playing semi-professionally on the Hanes Hosiery Women's Basketball team during the 1940s and 1950s. She recalls the accolades, tourn...

Title: Hanes Hosiery Women's Basketball panel discussion, 1996 March 3
Creator: Bauguess, Mildred Little, 1932-2013
Date Created: 1996-03-30
Subjects--Topical: Basketball, Basketball for women, Women basketball players, Basketball players, Women athletes, Basketball stories, Basketball teams, Hosiery workers, Softball
Description: Historian Pamela Grundy leads a panel discussion at the Levine Museum of the New South with four former members of the Hanes Hosiery women's basketball team, Mildred "Milly" Baugess, Evelyn "Eckie" Jordan, Eunies Futch, and Hazel Phillips, who pla...

Title: Bill Brown oral history interview 1, 2007 April 25
Creator: Brown, Bill, 1935-
Date Created: 2007-04-25
Subjects--Topical: Motorsports, Stock car racing, Stock cars (Automobiles), Automobiles, Racing--Design and construction, Automobile mechanics, Pit crews, Automobiles, Racing--Motors, Racetracks (Automobile racing), Distilling, Illicit
Description: Bill Brown recalls his career as a stock car racing mechanic during the 1950s and 1960s. He describes his experiences growing up near Winston-Salem, North Carolina and building cars for races at Bowman Gray Stadium. Mr. Brown often prepared cars f...

Title: Bill Brown oral history interview 2, 2007 June 25
Creator: Brown, Bill, 1935-
Date Created: 2007-06-25
Subjects--Topical: Motorsports, Pit crews, Automobiles, Racing--Design and construction, Automobiles, Racing--Motors, Stock car racing, Stock cars (Automobiles), Racetracks (Automobile racing), Automobile mechanics, Labor unions
Description: Bill Brown discusses his experiences as a mechanic for racecar drivers Billy and Bobby Myers during the 1950s. He recalls his relationship with the racing brothers and reflects upon his experiences with other racecar drivers such as Fireball Rober...

Title: Pee Wee Jones oral history interview, 2007 April 19
Creator: Jones, Pee Wee, 1928-2008
Date Created: 2007-04-19
Subjects--Topical: Automobiles, Racing, Automobile racing drivers, Farm life, Motorsports, Stock cars (Automobiles), Automobile mechanics, Automobile racing--accidents, Racetracks (Automobile racing), Automobile racing drivers' spouses
Description: Pee Wee Jones describes his career as a stock car driver, racing in NASCAR for over twenty years. Mr. Jones was a regular competitor at Bowman Gray Stadium in Winston-Salem, North Carolina during the 1950s and 1960s. He discusses his motivations f...

Title: Marion Johnson oral history interview, 2009 February 25
Creator: Johnson, Marion Thomas
Date Created: 2009-02-25
Subjects--Topical: Motorsports, Stock car racing, Racetracks (Automobile racing), Farm life, Automobile racing--accidents, Automobiles, Racing--Design and construction, Automobile racing managers, Automobile racing drivers, Flags
Description: Marion Johnson discusses his career as a flagman for stock car races, spanning the 1950s to the 1990s. He began his career working at dirt tracks throughout the state of North Carolina. Mr. Johnson also served as a flagman for NASCAR races, includ...

Title: William "Whitey" Norman oral history interview, 2007 September 18
Creator: Norman, Whitey, 1926-
Date Created: 2007-09-18
Subjects--Topical: Motorsports, Stock car racing, Stock cars (Automobiles), Automobile racing--accidents, Racetracks (Automobile racing), Automobile mechanics, Automobile racing drivers, Automobiles, Racing--Design and construction, Parties
Description: Whitey Norman recalls his career as a race car driver during the 1950s. Growing up on a tobacco farm in Yadkin County, North Carolina, he remembers how he was interested in driving from a young age. After serving as a tank driver in the Second Wor...

Title: Harold Smith oral history interview 2, 2008 March 19
Creator: Smith, Harold, 1932-
Date Created: 2008-03-19
Subjects--Topical: Motorsports, Drag racing, Racetracks (Automobile racing), Stock car drivers, Stock car racing, Pit crews, Automobiles, Racing--Motors--Modification, Automobiles, Racing--Design and construction, Automobile racing--Accidents, Automobiles, Racing--Maintenance and repair, Automobile racing--Employees, Automobile racing drivers--Family relationships
Description: In this second interview, modified stock car mechanic, pit crew member, and motorsports enthusiast Harold Smith reflects on his experiences in the racing community from the 1950s through the time of interview. Mr. Smith describes how he began work...

Title: Rex White oral history interview, 2008 May 15
Creator: White, Rex, 1930-
Date Created: 2008-05-15
Subjects--Topical: Farm life, Stock car drivers, Stock car racing, Motorsports, Pit crews, Automobiles, Racing--Chassis, Automobiles, Racing--Design and construction, Sports--Corrupt practices, Automobile racing--Psychological aspects
Description: In this interview, Rex White recounts his early life and his career as a stock car driver from the 1950s to 1965. He begins by describing his life growing up in rural Taylorsville, North Carolina, including experience working on his father's Ford ...

Title: Mildred Wright oral history interview 1, 2006 February 14
Creator: Wright, Mildred, 1933-
Date Created: 2006-02-14
Subjects--Topical: Open plan schools, Education, Elementary, School children--Education (Elementary), Educational assessment, School management and organization, Total quality management in education, English language--Study and teaching--Foreign speakers, Cultural pluralism
Description: Mildred Wright recounts her career as an educator and administrator working with open plan schools in North Carolina, particularly her experiences helping to open, teach at, and manage Irwin Avenue Open School, the second functioning open plan sch...

Title: Sherry Long oral history interview, 2003 August 19
Creator: Long, Sherry B. (Sherry Benfield), 1945-2018
Date Created: 2003-08-19
Subjects--Topical: Agritourism, Agriculture, Subsistence farming, Family farms, Field crops, Livestock, Animals, Horses, Trails, Farm life, Landscape changes, Rural development, Land use, Rural
Description: Sherry Long discusses her business owning and managing Hillside View Stables, built in 1991 and located in Mooresville, North Carolina. Ms. Long talks of her passion for horses and bringing that enjoyment to the public through agritourism. She rec...

Title: Mary Jamis oral history interview 2021 March 18
Creator: Jamis, Mary
Date Created: 2021-03-18
Subjects--Topical: Gay pride week, Gay pride celebrations, Lesbians, LGBTQ+ visibility, LGBTQ+ nonviolent resistance, Lesbian-gay relations
Description: Ms. Mary Jamis discusses her re-connection with the LGBTQ+ community through her experiences in organizing Winston-Salem Pride in 2011. Topics discussed include Ms. Jamis' participation in a non-violent protest against the YMCA in Winston-Sal...

Title: Rick Mashburn oral history interview, 2021 March 6
Creator: Mashburn, Rick
Date Created: 2021-03-06
Subjects--Topical: Gay pride celebrations, LGBTQ+ visibility, People with disabilities, AIDS (Disease)
Description: Mr. Rick Mashburn discusses his experiences as a gay and disabled man in Winston-Salem, North Carolina in the 1990s. Topics discussed include Mr. Mashburn's childhood coming to terms with both his sexuality and his physical disability in the ...

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: Rex Welton oral history interview 2021 March 1
Creator: Welton, Rex
Date Created: 2021-03-01
Subjects--Topical: Gay pride week, Gay pride celebrations, Gay bars, Community organization, LGBTQ+ visibility, LGBTQ+ communities, COVID-19 Pandemic (2020-)
Description: Mr. Rex Welton discusses his experiences organizing Pride events in Winston-Salem, North Carolina and his reflections on Pride before the COVID-19 pandemic. Topics discussed include Mr. Welton's first Pride experiences in Myrtle Beach, South ...

Title: Emma Hendel oral history interview, 2019 April 20
Creator: Hendel, Emma J. (Emma Joy)
Date Created: 2019-04-20
Subjects--Topical: Farms, Community-supported agriculture, Farmers, Organic farming--Certification, FDA Food Safety Modernization Act (United States), Social media
Description: Emma Hendel discusses her five years as a microgreens farmer and co-owner of Fair Share Farms, LLC in Pfafftown, North Carolina. Mrs. Hendel describes why and how she and her husband, Elliot Seldner, came to North Carolina and started their farm. ...

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