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Title: Anne Steele oral history interview, 2015 April 11
Creator: Steele, Anne, 1930-
Date Created: 2015-04-11
Subjects--Topical: African American families, African American neighborhoods
Description: Anne Steele recalls initially moving to the Historic Washington Heights community in Charlotte North Carolina to provide assistance to her aging aunt in the 1990s. Thinking about the twenty years she has spent living in the neighborhood, she remem...

Title: Annie Diggs oral history interview, 2001 October 30
Creator: Diggs, Annie Mae, 1926-2008
Date Created: 2001-10-30
Subjects--Topical: Rural families, Country life, African American families, Family farms, Chores, Gardening, Community gardens, Vegetable gardening, Cooking, American
Description: Annie Mae Diggs recalls growing up in the country in Mecklenburg County, North Carolina, helping to found the Wilmore Community Garden in the Wilmore neighborhood of Charlotte, North Carolina, and her relationship with gardening. She discusses cho...

Title: Arneichia Green oral history interview, 2016 April 20
Creator: Green, Arneichia, 1965-
Date Created: 2016-04-20
Subjects--Topical: Gentrification, African American families, African American neighborhoods, Urban poor--Social conditions
Description: Arneichia Green discusses the Optimist Park neighborhood in Charlotte, North Carolina, where she has lived since 1997. She stresses her appreciation for the opportunity to move into a Habitat home through the Jimmy and Rosalynn Carter Work Project...

Title: Arthur Wallace Sr. oral history interview, 2004 March 18
Creator: Wallace, Arthur, 1916-
Date Created: 2004-03-18
Subjects--Topical: African Americans--Segregation, African American churches, African Americans--Religion, African American business enterprises, African American neighborhoods, African American families, Amusements, Urban renewal
Description: Arthur Wallace Sr. shares his memories of the Brooklyn neighborhood of Charlotte, North Carolina, also known as Second Ward. He focuses on his experiences attending Friendship Baptist Missionary Church, which he joined in 1933, including church le...

Title: Arthur Williams oral history interview, 2007 March 30
Creator: Williams, Arthur, 1931-
Date Created: 2007-03-30
Subjects--Topical: African Americans--Segregation, African American business enterprises, African American churches, African American families, African American schools, Barbershops, Urban renewal, Amusements
Description: Arthur Williams shares his memories of growing up in the Brooklyn neighborhood in Charlotte, North Carolina, also known as Second Ward. He discusses residents and small businesses in Brooklyn, including his uncle's barbershop, N.G. Edwards Barber,...

Title: Barbara C. Steele oral history interview, 2004 April 1
Creator: Steele, Barbara C., 1932-2005
Date Created: 2004-04-01
Subjects--Topical: Urban renewal, African American neighborhoods, Eminent domain, African Americans--Housing, African American families, Sports--Social aspects
Description: Barbara Steele recounts her childhood and life in Brooklyn, a historic African American neighborhood in Charlotte, North Carolina, before it was torn down during urban renewal in the 1960s. She describes how close-knit and self-sufficient the comm...

Title: Barbara Davis Crawford oral history interview, 2004 March 27
Creator: Crawford, Barbara Davis, 1943-
Date Created: 2004-03-27
Subjects--Topical: African Americans--Segregation, African American neighborhoods, African American families, Dwellings--Fires and fire prevention, African Americans--Education, School sports--Social aspects, African American schools, Teacher-student relationships, African American business enterprises, African American churches, Urban renewal
Description: Barbara Crawford shares her memories of living in the Brooklyn neighborhood of Charlotte, North Carolina, also known as Second Ward. She describes some of the homes that she lived in growing up, and a house fire that destroyed her family's possess...

Title: Bettye Golden Holloway oral history interview, 2007 April 26
Creator: Holloway, Bettye Golden, 1933-
Date Created: 2007-04-26
Subjects--Topical: African Americans--Segregation, Urban renewal, African American business enterprises, African American schools, African American neighborhoods, City and town life, African Americans and libraries, Libraries, African American families, School sports--Social aspects
Description: Bettye Golden Holloway shares her memories of the Brooklyn neighborhood, also known as Second Ward, during the 1930s through 1950s in Charlotte, North Carolina. Mrs. Holloway cites the close-knit community spirit of Brooklyn as its greatest streng...

Title: Bill Veeder oral history interview, 2004 April 23
Creator: Veeder, Bill (William), 1923 or 1924-2011
Date Created: 2004-04-23
Subjects--Topical: Cities and towns--Growth, City planning, Urban renewal, African American neighborhoods, African American families, African Americans--Housing
Description: Bill Veeder recounts his experiences as the city manager of Charlotte, North Carolina during the 1960s and his involvement with the city's urban renewal program. He discusses working with the Charlotte City Council; the executive director of the C...

Title: Carrie Gaddy oral history interview, 2001 October 29
Creator: Gaddy, Carrie H., 1930-
Date Created: 2001-10-29
Subjects--Topical: Country life, Rural families, African American families, Family farms, Gardening, Vegetable gardening, Community gardens, Gardening--Social aspects, Cotton, Canning and preserving, Almanacs, American
Description: Carrie Gaddy recounts growing up in rural Union County, North Carolina, living in the Wilmore neighborhood of Charlotte, North Carolina beginning in 1970, and gardening throughout her life. She describes life growing up with her family, attending ...

Title: Cecelia Johnston oral history interview, 2015 October 22
Creator: Johnston, Cecelia, 1951-
Date Created: 2015-10-22
Subjects--Topical: Drug traffic, Gentrification, African American families, African American neighborhoods, Urban poor--Social conditions, Urban transportation--Public opinion
Description: Cecelia Johnston discusses her life and involvement in the Optimist Park community in Charlotte, North Carolina. Ms. Johnston is a longtime resident of the neighborhood and treasurer for the Optimist Park Community Association. She stresses the si...

Title: Charles Jones oral history interview 2, 2007 April 25
Creator: Jones, Charles, 1937-
Date Created: 2007-04-25
Subjects--Topical: African Americans--Segregation, African American business enterprises, African American churches, African American schools, African American neighborhoods, African American families, City and town life, Civil rights movements, Urban renewal
Description: Charles Jones shares his memories of the Brooklyn neighborhood of Charlotte, North Carolina, also known as Second Ward. He describes the sense of community pride in Brooklyn's residents and their close-knit relationships, differences between Charl...

Title: Cultivating Common Ground
Creator: Blotnick, June
Date Created: 2001
Subjects--Topical: Gardening, Community gardens, African American families
Description: For the Cultivating Common Ground project, middle and high school youth from the Wilmore neighborhood in Charlotte, NC interviewed the senior citizens who work in their neighborhood's community garden. The teens documented the seniors' life storie...

Title: Cynthia Horton oral history interview, 2016 March 16
Creator: Horton, Cynthia, 1955-
Date Created: 2016-03-16
Subjects--Topical: Gentrification, Cities and towns--Growth, African American families, African American neighborhoods, Urban poor--Social conditions
Description: Cynthia Horton, a new member of the Optimist Park neighborhood, reflects on her childhood in Wilmington, North Carolina and notes regret that her decision to marry early prevented her from going to college. She discusses her impression that the Op...

Title: Daisy Stroud oral history interview 3, 2007 April 12
Creator: Stroud, Daisy S., 1921-
Date Created: 2007-04-12
Subjects--Topical: African Americans--Segregation, African American neighborhoods, African American families, African American schools, Urban renewal, African American churches, Scholarships
Description: Native Charlottean Daisy Stroud shares her memories of the Brooklyn neighborhood of Charlotte, North Carolina, also known as Second Ward. Ms. Stroud was a resident of First Ward, and speaks about Brooklyn being an exciting place to visit that was ...

Title: Donna McGee oral history interview, 2001 October 27
Creator: McGee, Donna, 1942-2014
Date Created: 2001-10-27
Subjects--Topical: Families, African American families, Amusements, Gardening, Community gardens, Vegetable gardening, African Americans--Segregation
Description: Native Charlottean Donna Anthony McGee recalls growing up in the Brooklyn neighborhood of Charlotte, North Carolina, also known as Second Ward. She describes her childhood, including walking to school and playing stickball. A resident of the Wilmo...

Title: Dorothy Counts-Scoggins oral history interview 2, 2006 December 10
Creator: Counts-Scoggins, Dorothy, 1942-
Date Created: 2006-12-10
Subjects--Topical: Busing for school integration, Civil rights movements, African American neighborhoods, School integration, Racism in education, De facto school segregation, African Americans--Education (Secondary), African Americans--Civil rights, African American families
Description: Dorothy Counts-Scoggins recounts her experience growing up in the Biddleville community in the 1950s, including being the first African American student to integrate Harding High School in Charlotte, North Carolina. She discusses her four days at ...

Title: Dorothy Counts-Scoggins oral history interview 3, 1996 January 20
Creator: Counts-Scoggins, Dorothy, 1942-
Date Created: 1996-01-20
Subjects--Topical: Busing for school integration, Civil rights movements, School integration, Racism in education, De facto school segregation, African Americans--Education (Secondary), African Americans--Civil rights, African American families
Description: Dorothy Counts-Scoggins recounts being the first African American student to integrate Harding High School in Charlotte, North Carolina at the age of fifteen. Topics discussed include the remainder of her secondary education, Charlotte busing and ...

Title: Elizabeth Sadler oral history interview, 2004 April 24
Creator: Sadler, Elizabeth H. (Elizabeth Houston), 1917-2008
Date Created: 2004-04-24
Subjects--Topical: African American families, African American churches, Community organization, Farm life, Country life, Manners and customs
Description: Elizabeth Sadler recounts her early life growing up on her family's farm in the small, rural section of northwestern Mecklenburg County known as Shuffletown during the 1920s-1940s. She shares memories of her mother cooking Sunday dinner and long d...

Title: Elizabeth Samuel Weinstein oral history interview 1, 2004 April 8
Creator: Weinstein, Elizabeth Samuel, 1935-
Date Created: 2004-04-08
Subjects--Topical: African American families, African American neighborhoods, African American elementary schools, African American school children, Segregation, Parents' and teachers' associations, Parent-teacher relationships, Rural schools
Description: In this first interview, Elizabeth Weinstein recounts her childhood growing up in Derita (now a neighborhood in Charlotte) North Carolina and attending Rockwell Rosenwald School during the 1940s. Topics discussed include her family's background; h...

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