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Title: Alex Jutila oral history interview, 2019 October 29
Creator: Jutila, Alex
Date Created: 2019-10-29
Subjects--Topical: Student movements, Education, Higher, Civil rights movements
Description: Alex Jutila, a former student at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte and co-founder of Customer 49, a student activist group active from 2015-2018, explains how he started Customer 49 with Noe Pliego Campos. Topics discussed include the ...

Title: Benjamin Chavis Jr. oral history interview, 2005 February 7
Creator: Chavis, Ben, 1948-
Date Created: 2005-02-07
Subjects--Topical: African American college students, African American college students--Political activity, African American student movements, Chemistry, Civil rights, Civil rights movements, College integration, Race relations, Racism, Segregation, Student movements
Description: Dr. Benjamin Chavis recounts his involvement in the black student movement on the campus of the University of North Carolina at Charlotte during the late 1960s to the early 1970s, when he was one of a small but politically active cohort of African...

Title: Ellison Clary oral history interview, 2012 May 25
Creator: Clary, Ellison
Date Created: 2012-05-25
Subjects--Topical: Women college presidents, Education--Political aspects, College students, Civil rights movements, Race relations, College student newspapers and periodicals
Description: In this interview, Mr. Ellison Clary, Charlotte native and graduate of the University of North Carolina at Charlotte, tells of his experience growing up in Charlotte in the 1950s, attending Charlotte College and UNC Charlotte during the pivotal ye...

Title: H. Parry Bliss, Jr. oral history interview, 2015 October 22
Creator: Bliss, H. Parry, Jr.
Date Created: 2015-10-22
Subjects--Topical: College students, Civil rights movements, College student newspapers and periodicals, College yearbooks, Universities and colleges--Alumni and alumnae, Education, Higher, September 11 Terrorist Attacks (2001)
Description: In this interview H. Parry Bliss, Jr., alumnus of the University of North Carolina at Charlotte, shares memories of his time as a student at the university, particularly of his senior year in 1969. He recalls his impressions of Bonnie Cone and rec...

Title: Humphrey Cummings oral history interview, 2004 December 14
Creator: Cummings, Humphrey
Date Created: 2004-12-14
Subjects--Topical: African American college students, Student movements, African American college students--Political activity, School integration, African American neighborhoods, Civil rights movements, Civil rights demonstrations, Race relations, Urban renewal
Description: Charlotte attorney Humphrey Cummings shares his memories of his time as an African American student at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte (UNC Charlotte) during the late 1960s and early 1970s. As one out of a class of around thirty blac...

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: 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 8, 2010 June 8
Creator: Witherspoon, Loy H., 1930-2017
Date Created: 2010-06-08
Subjects--Topical: Students--Social life and customs, Educational leadership, Education, Higher, Universities and colleges, Public universities and colleges--Administration, College teachers, Civil rights movements, African American college students
Description: In this fifth of seven interviews given by Loy Witherspoon and conducted by Christina Wright, Dr. Witherspoon describes how Bonnie Cone fought to make Charlotte College (later, UNC Charlotte) a part of the University of North Carolina system, and ...

Title: Nadine Ford oral history interview 1, 2015 November 15
Creator: Ford, Elaine N. (Elaine Nadine)
Date Created: 2015-11-15
Subjects--Topical: Civil rights movements, School integration, Urban gardening, Gentrification
Description: Nadine Ford, who has had a career in waste management, is a native Charlottean who was raised in the Druid Hills neighborhood during the civil rights era. She describes her schooling experience during desegregation busing, and the transformation o...