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Title: Brett Gilbert oral history interview, 2006 October 26
Creator: Gilbert, Brett, 1941-
Date Created: 2006-10-26
Subjects--Topical: Race relations, Country life, Social values, Soldiers, Civil rights movements
Description: Brett Gilbert recounts his life and experiences in Lincoln County and in Charlotte, North Carolina. Growing up on a dairy farm in rural Lincoln County, Mr. Gilbert explains how most people were poor farmers and that with the exception of atomic bo...

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: Jimmie Lee Kirkpatrick and H.D. Kirkpatrick oral history interview 1, 2017 October 6
Creator: Kirkpatrick, Jimmie Lee
Date Created: 2017-10-06
Subjects--Topical: Racism, Slavery, Christian life, Football, Segregation in education, Segregation, Race relations, Civil rights movements, Shrine Bowl of the Carolinas (Football), Bombings
Description: In this first of four related interviews, Jimmie Lee Kirkpatrick and H.D. Kirkpatrick discuss their disparate experiences growing up and attending school in segregated Charlotte, North Carolina during the 1950s and 1960s. Jimmie Lee Kirkpatrick ta...