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Title: Beverly Bergeson oral history interview, 1979 October 23
Creator: Bergeson, Beverly J. (Beverly Johnson), 1917-1998
Date Created: 1979-10-23
Subjects--Topical: Depressions, Older people--Care, Families, Leisure
Description: Beverly Bergeson discusses growing up in Jamestown, New York during the Great Depression and how the decades prior to World War II impacted her life. Topics discussed include her work with the elderly and the overall changing dynamic of families, ...

Title: James G. Babb, Jr. oral history interview 1, 2013 July 18
Creator: Babb, James G., 1932-
Date Created: 2013-07-18
Subjects--Topical: College students, African Americans--Segregation, United States. Army, Veterans--Education (Higher), Sports journalism, Political campaigns, Newspaper publishing, Television broadcasting
Description: In this interview, James G. "Jim" Babb, long-time Charlotte resident and student at Charlotte College in the 1950s, recalls his early years in New York City, Boston, and Charlotte, North Carolina; his school days at Dilworth Elementary School, O&a...

Title: John Thrower oral history interview, 2004 September 4
Creator: Thrower, John Hampton, 1928-2013
Date Created: 2004-09-04
Subjects--Topical: Urban redevelopment, African American neighborhoods, African American families, City planning, City council members, Urban renewal, African Americans--Segregation, Eminent domain
Description: John Thrower discusses his experiences serving two terms on the Charlotte City Council in Charlotte, North Carolina during the 1960s and 1970s. He describes poor living conditions in the Brooklyn neighborhood in Charlotte, North Carolina (also kno...

Title: Otto Lutz oral history interview, 1974 March 25
Creator: Lutz, Otto, 1925-2017
Date Created: 1974-03-25
Subjects--Topical: War, Soldiers, Armed Forces--Swiss regiments, Border patrols, Rationing
Description: Otto Lutz discusses his time in the Swiss Army during World War II. He talks about growing up in Uster, Switzerland, ten to fifteen miles outside Zurich and how he was fourteen when World War II broke out. In 1944, he joined the Swiss Army, as all...

Title: Waitsell Ensley oral history interview, 2006 March 22
Creator: Ensley, Waitsell, 1936-
Date Created: 2006-03-22
Subjects--Topical: Country life, Manners and customs, Education, Rural, Parents--Death, Drinking of alcoholic beverages, Social values
Description: Textiles industry manager Waitsell Ensley discusses his life and his family. He describes his unexpected birth and his childhood growing up in small mill towns in Gaston County, North Carolina. In particular, Mr. Ensley talks about rationing durin...

Title: William T. Alexander oral history interview 3, 1992 Spring
Creator: Alexander, William Tasse, 1904-1992
Date Created: 1992
Subjects--Topical: Rich people, Work environment, Insurance agents, Rural conditions, Business enterprises, Competition, Soldiers
Description: In this last of three interviews, Charlotte native William T. Alexander describes his early career in the 1920s-1930s working in several places across the United States as well as his time in the U.S. Army during World War II. Mr. Alexander talks ...