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Title: Andrew P. Haywood oral history interview 3, 1997 November 4
Creator: Haywood, Andrew Perry, 1933-2006
Date Created: 1997-11-04
Subjects--Topical: High schools--Administration, High school principals, School integration, Race relations in school management, Teacher-student relationships
Description: Dr. Andrew "Sam" Haywood discusses his role as principal of Independence and West Charlotte High Schools and as chairman of county high school principals during the turbulent years of desegregation. He describes the benefits of desegregation and r...

Title: Andy Baxter oral history interview, 1999 June 29
Creator: Baxter, Andy
Date Created: 1999-06-29
Subjects--Topical: Students, Public schools, School integration, Student government, Segregation in education, Race relations
Description: Andy Baxter talks about his experiences as a student at West Charlotte High School, where he was student council president in his senior year. Mr. Baxter reflects on his experiences with racial integration at the school, speaking at length about t...

Title: Betty Seizinger oral history interview, 1999 June 22
Creator: Seizinger, Betty, 1931-2004
Date Created: 1999-06-22
Subjects--Topical: School integration, School integration--Public opinion, Discrimination in education, De facto school segregation, Teachers, Magnet schools, Busing for school integration, Race relations
Description: Betty Seizinger discusses the history of West Charlotte High School and shares her experiences as a teacher there during the 1980s. Ms. Seizinger describes West Charlotte's challenges and successes in integrating staff and students during the...

Title: Calvin and Naomi Davis oral history interview, 2004 November 23
Creator: Davis, Calvin C., 1925-2007
Date Created: 2004-11-23
Subjects--Topical: Education--Parent participation, Educational tests and measurements, African American teachers, School discipline, Segregation in education, School integration, Students--Academic workload, Students--Attitudes
Description: Calvin and Naomi Davis describe their experiences as students, teachers, parents, and grandparents in the Charlotte-Mecklenburg school system, and reflect on the significant changes in education during their lifetimes. They discuss both the challe...

Title: Carol Newman oral history interview 2, 2006 February 23
Creator: Newman, Carol, 1946-2007
Date Created: 2006-02-23
Subjects--Topical: Open plan schools, Student-centered learning, Teachers, Experiential learning, Teachers--In-service training, Magnet schools, Federal aid to education, School integration
Description: In this second interview, Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools (CMS) administrator Carol Newman continues to discuss the successes and challenges of the city's open schools program, but also focuses on the emergence and significance of magnet school...

Title: Charlotte Mecklenburg Schools cartoon
Creator: Payne, Eugene G., 1919-2010
Date Created: 1970-08-26
Subjects--Topical: Political cartoons, Politics and government--Caricatures and cartoons, Segregation in education, School integration
Description: Topics include: Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools; School integration; School desegregation

Title: Chris Folk oral history interview 1, 1997 October 16
Creator: Folk, Chris Evans, 1930-2010
Date Created: 1997-10-16
Subjects--Topical: Busing for school integration, De facto school segregation, Magnet schools, Race relations, School districts--Planning, School enrollment, School integration, School management and organization, Segregation in education, Trials, litigation, etc.
Description: In this 1997 interview, Dr. Chris Folk, former associate superintendent of Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools, recounts the school system's history of desegregation in light of the filing of Capacchione v. Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools earlier that yea...

Title: Chris Folk oral history interview 2, 1996 September 16
Creator: Folk, Chris Evans, 1930-2010
Date Created: 1996-09-16
Subjects--Topical: School integration, Busing for school integration, Magnet schools, Civil rights, Discrimination in education, Families--Education, Race relations
Description: Dr. Chris Folk, former associate superintendent and longtime employee of the Charlotte-Mecklenburg school system, discusses his life and work as an educator. After reflecting on his early experiences as the son of a textile mill superintendent in ...

Title: Daisy Stroud oral history interview 1, June 20, 2001
Creator: Stroud, Daisy S., 1921-
Date Created: 2001-06-20
Subjects--Topical: African American neighborhoods, African Americans--Segregation, Segregation in education, School integration, School integration--Public opinion, Race relations, Education, Civil rights movements, Civil rights demonstrations
Description: Daisy Spears Stroud, a native of Charlotte, recounts her experiences growing up in the First Ward neighborhood and her career in the Charlotte-Mecklenburg school system before and during desegregation in the 1950s-1970s. She describes her experien...

Title: Elizabeth Randolph oral history interview 1, 1993 June 16
Creator: Randolph, Elizabeth S.
Date Created: 1993-06-16
Subjects--Topical: African American elementary schools, African Americans--Segregation, Education, Racism in education, School integration, Segregation, Segregation in education, Busing for school integration, Manners and customs, Depressions
Description: In this first interview with Jennifer Greeson for the Levine Museum, Elizabeth Randolph describes growing up during the 1920s and 1930s in a family that emphasized education which inspired her dedication as an educator throughout her life in such ...

Title: Evelyn Van Hecke oral history interview, 1999 July 15
Creator: Van Hecke, Evelyn, 1958-
Date Created: 1999-07-15
Subjects--Topical: Art--Study and teaching, English language--Study and teaching--Foreign speakers, School integration, Race relations, Public schools, High school students, High school students--Societies and clubs
Description: Evelyn Van Hecke recounts her experience as an art teacher at West Charlotte High School in the 1980s and 1990s. Topics discussed include the role fine arts classes played in bringing students of all backgrounds together, her experiences working w...

Title: George Little oral history interview, 2015 November 11
Creator: Little, George, 1992-
Date Created: 2015-11-11
Subjects--Topical: Gentrification, African American families, African American neighborhoods, Urban poor--Social conditions, School integration, Cities and towns--Growth, Social mobility, Race relations
Description: George Little shares his experiences growing up in the Optimist Park neighborhood of Charlotte, North Carolina, where his parents built their home with Habitat for Humanity. Having lived in the neighborhood for twenty-three years, he discusses bei...

Title: Gerson L. Stroud oral history interview, 2001 June 20
Creator: Stroud, Gerson L., 1919-2006
Date Created: 2001-06-20
Subjects--Topical: Race relations, Segregation, African Americans--Education, School integration, Busing for school integration, African American school principals, Public school--Administration, African American soldiers--Social conditions
Description: Gerson L. Stroud recounts his experiences as a lifelong resident of Charlotte as well as his thirty-one year career with the Charlotte-Mecklenburg school system where, as principal of West Charlotte High School, he oversaw that school's racial int...

Title: Girvaud Justice oral history interview 1, 2006 August 6
Creator: Justice, Girvaud, 1944-
Date Created: 2006-08-06
Subjects--Topical: African American neighborhoods, African Americans--Segregation, Discrimination in education, School integration, Segregation in education, Racism in education, Civil rights, African American families, Urban renewal, Soap box derbies, African Americans and libraries
Description: Girvaud Justice was one of four African American students who attended all-white schools in Charlotte in 1957 as a challenge to the city's slow response to desegregate schools, which had been mandated by the Supreme Court ruling in Brown v. B...

Title: Girvaud Justice oral history interview 2, 2006 August 11
Creator: Justice, Girvaud, 1944-
Date Created: 2006-08-11
Subjects--Topical: African American neighborhoods, African Americans--Segregation, Discrimination in education, School integration, Segregation in education, Racism in education, Civil rights, African American families, Urban renewal, Gentrification, City planning--Citizen participation, Drug traffic--Social aspects, Public housing
Description: Girvaud Justice was one of four African American students who attended all-white schools in Charlotte in 1957 as a challenge to the city's slow response to desegregate schools, which had been mandated by the Supreme Court ruling in Brown v. Board ...

Title: James Cuthbertson Jr. oral history interview, 2004 July 28
Creator: Cuthbertson, James, 1950-
Date Created: 2004-07-28
Subjects--Topical: African American college students, African American student movements, Civil rights, College integration, Race relations, Racism, School integration, Student unions, Universities and colleges--Social aspects, Greek letter societies, African American Greek letter societies
Description: James Cuthbertson recounts his experiences as one of the few African American students attending the University of North Carolina at Charlotte during the late 1960s to the early 1970s. As a member of the Black Student Union, he discusses how the s...

Title: James L. Atkinson oral history interview, 2015 October 22
Creator: Atkinson, James, 1954-
Date Created: 2015-10-22
Subjects--Topical: Gentrification, African American families, African American neighborhoods, Urban poor--Social conditions, School integration, Cities and towns--Growth, Social mobility
Description: James Atkinson discusses his life and his family's long term involvement with the Optimist Park neighborhood in Charlotte, North Carolina, including his role as an adviser to the Optimist Park Community Association. He describes the challenges of ...

Title: Jeanne Brayboy oral history interview, 1997 September 25
Creator: Brayboy, Jeanne, 1930-
Date Created: 1997-09-25
Subjects--Topical: Music--Study and teaching (Elementary), Segregation in education, School integration, School integration--Public opinion, Busing for school integration, Race relations
Description: Jeanne Brayboy recounts her life, career as an elementary school music teacher, and firsthand experience of Charlotte's schools before and after integration. She moved to Charlotte after college and began teaching in segregated black schools, whic...

Title: Jeffrey L. Nance oral history interview, 1997 September 30
Creator: Nance, Jeffrey L. (Jeffrey Lane), 1956-
Date Created: 1997-09-30
Subjects--Topical: School integration, Segregation in education, Race relations, Educational equalization, Busing for school integration, Busing for school integration--Public opinion, Race riots
Description: Computer programmer Jeffrey Nance, a native of the Charlotte region, discusses his experiences attending Garinger High School during school integration in the early 1970s. Mr. Nance was finishing the eighth grade when the Supreme Court determined ...

Title: Jeffrey Leak oral history interview, 2004 April 5
Creator: Leak, Jeffrey B., 1968-
Date Created: 2004-04-05
Subjects--Topical: Interracial friendship, Middle class African Americans, Race relations, School integration, Social integration, Urban renewal, Gentrification, Affirmative action programs, Civil rights movements, Cities and towns--Growth
Description: UNC Charlotte professor Jeffrey Leak discusses his family's history in the Charlotte, North Carolina region and recounts his experiences growing up in West Charlotte and attending recently integrated schools in the Charlotte-Mecklenburg school sys...

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