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Title: Evelyn Choate oral history interview, 2003 February 24
Creator: Choate, Evelyn B., 1911-2007
Date Created: 2003-02-24
Subjects--Topical: Depressions, Family farms, Farm life, Teaching, Rural schools, Amusements, Segregation in education, African Americans--Segregation, Religious gatherings, Christian life, Church history
Description: Evelyn Brown Choate, a retired teacher, recounts her experiences during the Great Depression as an orphan in North Carolina. Ms. Choate talks about her family's farm, attending Flora MacDonald College and teaching grade school in Fayetteville, Nor...

Title: Mattie Creigton oral history interview, 2003 March 5
Creator: Creigton, Mattie, 1912-2004
Date Created: 2003-03-05
Subjects--Topical: Depressions, Family farms, Farm life, City and town life, Roads--Design and construction, Amusements, Voting, Christian life
Description: 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...

Title: Roger A. Stephens oral history interview, 1979 October 23
Creator: Stephens, Roger A. (Roger Albert), 1905-1991
Date Created: 1979-10-23
Subjects--Topical: Depressions, Street-railroads, Amusements, Fires, City and town life
Description: Roger A. Stephens recalls his memories of growing up in Atlanta, Georgia during the early twentieth century and life after moving to Charlotte, North Carolina in 1922. He describes selling newspapers as a boy and his career working in the freight ...

Title: Esther Young oral history interview, 2003 March 1
Creator: Young, Esther B., 1923-2004
Date Created: 2003-03-01
Subjects--Topical: Family farms, Rural families, Depressions, African Americans--Segregation, Education, Rural, Families--Social life and customs, Politics and government, Sharecropping, Amusements
Description: Esther Young recalls her childhood in rural Cabarrus County, North Carolina during the early 1930s and summarizes her family's experiences during the Great Depression. Ms. Young explains that her family farmed throughout the Great Depression and w...

Title: Lester Youngblood oral history interview, 2003 February 22
Creator: Youngblood, William Lester, 1915-2012
Date Created: 2003-02-22
Subjects--Topical: Depressions, Family farms, Farm life, Dairy farming, Milk trade, Cotton trade, Wages, Country life, Amusements, War, Armed Forces
Description: William Lester Youngblood recounts his experiences living on a cotton and dairy farm in Mecklenburg County, North Carolina during the Great Depression. He talks about how rural communities were impacted differently than the cities and describes ho...