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Title: Billy J. Reid oral history interview 1, 2012 September 13
Creator: Reid, Billy J. (Billy June), 1931-2022
Date Created: 2012-09-13
Subjects--Topical: Education, College students, Veterans--Education (Higher), Women college presidents, African Americans--Segregation, Depressions
Description: In this interview, Bill J. Reid, one of "Bonnie's Boys" and a Charlotte College alumnus, reflects on growing up in Charlotte, North Carolina, during the Great Depression and on Bonnie Cone's influence in his life. He recalls his educatio...

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: Harold Pulley oral history interview 1, 2012 May 31
Creator: Pulley, Harold
Date Created: 2012-05-31
Subjects--Topical: African Americans--Segregation, Interracial marriage, Racially mixed children, Slavery, Underground Railroad, Lynching, Enslavement
Description: In this first of four interviews, Harold Pulley, North Carolina native and alumnus of the University of North Carolina at Charlotte, begins by discussing his family background including his father's acquisition of farmland in return for const...

Title: Harold Pulley oral history interview 2, 2012 June 26
Creator: Pulley, Harold
Date Created: 2012-06-26
Subjects--Topical: African Americans--Segregation, Race relations, College students, Universities and colleges--Faculty, United States. Air Force, Military participation--African American, Post-traumatic stress disorder, African American churches, Church controversies
Description: In this second of four interviews, Harold Pulley, UNC Charlotte alumnus, recounts his college and military careers, discussing his time at Livingstone College, Gaston Technical Institute, and UNC Charlotte, as well as in the Navy Reserve and the A...

Title: Irene Elizabeth Hunt oral history interview, 2004 February 13
Creator: Hunt, Irene Elizabeth Stephens, 1910-2008
Date Created: 2004-02-13
Subjects--Topical: African American elementary schools, Education, Rural, Teachers, Students, Segregation in education, African Americans--Segregation
Description: Irene Elizabeth Hunt describes her early life growing up in Gaffney, South Carolina during the early twentieth century and the great importance of education to her family. Topics include helping to educate her siblings; memories of one of her favo...

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: James Gaither oral history interview, 2004 February 24
Creator: Gaither, James Israel, 1936-
Date Created: 2004-02-24
Subjects--Topical: Segregation in education, African Americans--Segregation, African Americans--Social conditions, African American schools, African American families, Farm life, Education, Rural, Race relations
Description: James Gaither discusses growing up in the rural Hemphill Heights community in Charlotte, North Carolina and his education at Rockwell Rosenwald School. He recounts living in a farming household that produced their own butter and grew much of their...

Title: John Miller, Jr. oral history interview 1, 2011 September 6
Creator: Miller, John S. (John Sutton), Jr., 1930-2021
Date Created: 2011-09-06
Subjects--Topical: Rest homes, Rest homes--Administration, Nursing home patients, Farms, Agriculture, African Americans--Segregation
Description: In this interview John Miller, Jr., Superintendent of Green Acres Rest Home in Charlotte, North Carolina, from 1961 to 1982, describes what life was like at the Mecklenburg County Home (later Green Acres Rest Home) during his childhood years when ...

Title: John Miller, Jr. oral history interview 2, 2011 September 14
Creator: Miller, John S. (John Sutton), Jr., 1930-2021
Date Created: 2011-09-14
Subjects--Topical: Rest homes, Rest homes--Administration, Rest homes--Government policy, Nursing home patients, Farms, Agriculture, Dairy farming, Laundries, African Americans--Segregation
Description: In this interview John Miller, Jr., Superintendent of Green Acres Rest Home in Charlotte, North Carolina, from 1961 to 1982, continues to describe life at the rest home from his childhood through his time as superintendent. He shares memories of s...

Title: John Miller, Jr. oral history interview 3, 2011 September 26
Creator: Miller, John S. (John Sutton), Jr., 1930-2021
Date Created: 2011-09-26
Subjects--Topical: Rest homes, Rest homes--Administration, Rest homes--Government policy, Nursing home patients, Social service, African Americans--Segregation, Race relations, Eugenics, Mentally ill--Care
Description: In this interview John Miller, Jr., Superintendent of Green Acres Rest Home in Charlotte, North Carolina, from 1961 to 1982 continues to recount his experiences administering Green Acres. He discusses its transition from public to private control,...

Title: Merwin Edsel Foard oral history interview 1, 2014 February 4
Creator: Foard, Merwin E. (Merwin Edsel), Sr., 1931-2019
Date Created: 2014-02-04
Subjects--Topical: Universities and colleges, College students, Emigration and immigration, Colonists, African Americans--Segregation, Providence and government of God
Description: In this first of two interviews, Merwin Edsel Foard, Charlotte native and graduate of Charlotte College, reflects on his life history and his conviction of divine providence throughout his life. He recounts the Foard family's deep rooted conn...

Title: Merwin Edsel Foard oral history interview 2, 2014 February 28
Creator: Foard, Merwin E. (Merwin Edsel), Sr., 1931-2019
Date Created: 2014-02-28
Subjects--Topical: Universities and colleges, College students, Veterans--Education, African Americans--Segregation, Civil rights movements, Public speaking
Description: In this second of two interviews, Merwin Edsel Foard, native of Charlotte, North Carolina, and 1957 graduate of Charlotte College, continues to share about his experience attending the school. He begins by mentioning his service in the Korean War ...

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