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Title: Kimberly Melton oral history interview, 2017 February 9
Creator: Melton, Kimberly A., (Kimberly Ann)
Date Created: 2017-02-09
Subjects--Topical: Women--Religious life, Bisexual women, Lesbian community, AIDS (Disease), Lesbians, Women--Political activity
Description: Kimberly Melton discusses her thirty years as an LGBTQ activist in Charlotte, North Carolina. Ms. Melton was raised under Catholicism until the age of thirteen--a year in her life she attributes with great importance. While attending junior high s...

Title: Sue Spayth Riley oral history interview, 2005 September 13
Creator: Riley, Sue Spayth, 1920-2006
Date Created: 2005-09-13
Subjects--Topical: Unitarian Universalist churches--Education, Open plan schools, Education, Preschool--Curricula, Preschool teachers, School integration, Progressive education--Philosophy, Teacher-student relationships
Description: Sue Spayth Riley describes her experiences as the founder and director of Charlotte's first integrated and open preschool, the Open Door School. Ms. Riley attributes her decision to establish the Open Door School to a combination of influence...

Title: Tonda Anne Taylor oral history interview 4, 2015 October 5
Creator: Taylor, Tonda, 1940-
Date Created: 2015-10-05
Subjects--Topical: Coming out (Sexual orientation), Mental health care for LGBTQ+ people, Gay youth, Gay youth--Services for, Homophobia, Nonprofit organizations
Description: In this fourth of four interviews, Tonda Taylor, long-time activist for LGBTQ+ rights and founder of Time Out Youth (TOY) in Charlotte, North Carolina, recalls the beginning stages of TOY. Ms. Taylor discusses her previous psychiatric work with Ch...