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William T. Alexander oral history interview 3, 1992 Spring
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Creator
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Alexander, William Tasse, 1904-1992
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Date Created
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1992
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Subjects--Topical
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Rich people, Work environment, Insurance agents, Rural conditions, Business enterprises, Competition, Soldiers
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In this last of three interviews, Charlotte native William T. Alexander describes his early career in the 1920s-1930s working in several places across the United States as well as his time in the U.S. Army during World War II. Mr. Alexander talks ...
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William "Whitey" Norman oral history interview, 2007 September 18
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Creator
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Norman, Whitey, 1926-
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Date Created
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2007-09-18
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Subjects--Topical
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Motorsports, Stock car racing, Stock cars (Automobiles), Automobile racing--accidents, Racetracks (Automobile racing), Automobile mechanics, Automobile racing drivers, Automobiles, Racing--Design and construction, Parties
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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...
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Waitsell Ensley oral history interview, 2006 March 22
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Creator
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Ensley, Waitsell, 1936-
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Date Created
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2006-03-22
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Subjects--Topical
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Country life, Manners and customs, Education, Rural, Parents--Death, Drinking of alcoholic beverages, Social values
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Textiles industry manager Waitsell Ensley discusses his life and his family. He describes his unexpected birth and his childhood growing up in small mill towns in Gaston County, North Carolina. In particular, Mr. Ensley talks about rationing durin...
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Virginia Case oral history interview, 1996 September 10
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Case, Virginia, 1918-
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Date Created
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1996-09-10
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Subjects--Topical
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Depressions, Country life, War--Economic aspects, Women in war, Race relations, Urban renewal
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Virginia Case discusses her family and life in Gastonia, North Carolina. Originally from Pickens County, South Carolina, she and her husband moved to Gastonia in the mid-1930s. Mrs. Case describes how difficult life was during the Great Depression...
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Tom Snipes oral history interview, 1993 February 25
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Creator
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Snipes, Walter Thomas, 1932-
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Date Created
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1993-02-25
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Subjects--Topical
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College administrators, College teachers, Universities and colleges--Faculty, Universities and colleges--Curricula, Race relations
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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...
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Susan Cernyak oral history interview, 1974 March 28
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Creator
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Cernyak-Spatz, Susan E., 1922-
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Date Created
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1974-03-28
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Subjects--Topical
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Antisemitism, Concentration camps, Holocaust survivors, Jews
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Susan Cernyak, a UNC Charlotte professor and Holocaust survivor, recounts her experience during World War II. Born in Austria, Ms. Cernyak describes the treatment of Austrian Jews before and after Nazi Germany's annexation of the country. She expl...
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Simmons Jones oral history interview, 1993 February 28
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Creator
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Jones, Simmons, 1920-
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Date Created
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1993-02-28
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Subjects--Topical
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Social classes, Race relations, Race discrimination, Segregation, Religion, Sexual ethics, Homosexuality, Families--Social life and customs
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Fashion photographer and author Simmons Baker Jones discusses his eventful life, beginning with his formative years growing up in a prominent Charlotte family and continuing through his service as a corporal in the U.S. Army during the Second Worl...
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Sarah Alexander oral history interview, 2000 February 3
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Alexander, Sarah Land, 1913-
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Date Created
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2000-02-03
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Subjects--Topical
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Teachers, Families, Rich people, Genealogy, Family farms, Farm life, Cotton growing, Tenant farmers, Dairy farms, Barns, Dairy barns--Design and construction, Dairy barns, Farm equipment, Education
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Sarah Land Alexander Sr. and her daughter, Sarah Land Alexander Jr., talk about their lives and the history of the Alexander family farm in Charlotte, North Carolina. Mrs. Alexander Sr. describes how she met her husband, William Tasse 'Bill' Alexa...
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Roland R. Hinrichs oral history interview, 1979 May 24
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Hinrichs, Roland R. (Roland Russell), 1907-
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Date Created
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1979-05-29
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Subjects--Topical
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Country life, Depressions, College athletes, Technological innovations
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Roland R. Hinrichs recounts his childhood in West Virginia during the early twentieth century and societal changes that took place throughout his adult life. Topics include his difficulty in finding employment during the Great Depression, his late...
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Price Davis oral history interview 1, 2004 May 25
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Davis, Price, 1920-
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Date Created
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2004-05-25
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Subjects--Topical
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African American schools, African American teachers, Segregation in education, Race relations, Race discrimination, Racism, Police brutality, African Americans--Segregation, African Americans--Social conditions, Civil rights movements, Political and social views
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Charlotte, North Carolina native Price Davis shares his experiences of growing up and living in Charlotte during segregation. Mr. Davis talks about attending Morgan School and Second Ward High School in the Brooklyn neighborhood in Charlotte, and ...
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Otto Lutz oral history interview, 1974 March 25
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Lutz, Otto, 1925-2017
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Date Created
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1974-03-25
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Subjects--Topical
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War, Soldiers, Armed Forces--Swiss regiments, Border patrols, Rationing
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Otto Lutz discusses his time in the Swiss Army during World War II. He talks about growing up in Uster, Switzerland, ten to fifteen miles outside Zurich and how he was fourteen when World War II broke out. In 1944, he joined the Swiss Army, as all...
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Oni Wilson oral history interview, 2003 February 26
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Wilson, Oni, 1915-2009
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Date Created
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2003-02-26
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Subjects--Topical
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Depressions, Family farms, Farm life, Cotton, Political and social views, Baseball, Textile industry, Textile workers--Labor unions, Company towns, Baptists
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Oni Wilson describes his childhood during the Great Depression and growing up on a cotton farm in Davidson, North Carolina. He talks about how his family lost their home in 1929 because of the fall of cotton prices, then rented a home and farmland...
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Norris A. Dearmon oral history interview, 1998 October 6
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Dearmon, Norris A. (Norris Adam), 1922-
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Date Created
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1998-10-06
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Subjects--Topical
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Dentistry, Military, Mills and mill-work, Local history, Company towns, Textile industry--Technological innovations
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Norris Dearmon recounts his life in Kannapolis, North Carolina and his sixty-year long relationship with Cannon Mills as an employee and amateur historian. Topics discussed include his childhood growing up during the Great Depression, his experien...
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Nettie House oral history interview, 2006 October 24
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House, Nettie S., 1924-
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Date Created
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2006-10-24
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Subjects--Topical
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Textile workers, Depressions, Race relations, School integration
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Charlotte native Nettie House describes her life growing up in Charlotte's Belmont neighborhood, her experiences during World War II, and her married life in Charlotte during the postwar period. Her father came to Charlotte from Union County to wo...
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Minnie Sutker oral history interview, 1990 April 22
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Sutker, Minnie S. (Minnie Silverstein), 1905-1995
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Date Created
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1990-04-22
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Judaism--Customs and practices, Jewish way of life, Passover--Customs and practices, Religious tolerance, Zionism, Antisemitism
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Charlotte, North Carolina native Minnie Silverstein Sutker discusses her experiences as a member of the Jewish community in the city. She talks about her father's earliest days in Charlotte in the late nineteenth century and discusses her parents'...
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Milton Short oral history interview, 2004 March 22
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Short, Milton, 1919-2011
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Date Created
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2004-03-22
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Urban renewal, Eminent domain, Political participation, African Americans--Segregation, African Americans--Housing, African American neighborhoods, African American business enterprises
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H. Milton Short, Jr. recounts his six terms serving on Charlotte city council (1965-1979) in Charlotte, North Carolina and his involvement with the urban renewal program. He characterizes Charlotte's redevelopment program as very popular among Cha...
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Merwin Edsel Foard oral history interview 1, 2014 February 4
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Foard, Merwin E. (Merwin Edsel), Sr., 1931-2019
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Date Created
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2014-02-04
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Subjects--Topical
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Universities and colleges, College students, Emigration and immigration, Colonists, African Americans--Segregation, Providence and government of God
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In this first of two interviews, Merwin Edsel Foard, Charlotte native and graduate of Charlotte College, reflects on his life history and his conviction of divine providence throughout his life. He recounts the Foard family's deep rooted conn...
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Mattie Creigton oral history interview, 2003 March 5
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Creator
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Creigton, Mattie, 1912-2004
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Date Created
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2003-03-05
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Subjects--Topical
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Depressions, Family farms, Farm life, City and town life, Roads--Design and construction, Amusements, Voting, Christian life
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Mattie Creighton, a lifelong Charlottean, recalls growing up during the Great Depression in Charlotte, North Carolina and working as a young woman during the 1930s and 1940s. Ms. Creighton describes her hardships during the time period including s...
