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Title: Janet S. Gamble and Delores A. Crowder oral history interview 1, 2004 January 12
Creator: Gamble, Janet S., 1940-
Date Created: 2004-01-12
Subjects--Topical: African American elementary schools, African American school children, Segregation in education, Rural schools, Corporal punishment of children, Student activities
Description: In this first of two interviews, Mecklenburg County natives Janet Gamble and Delores Crowder discuss their private family lives, the Derita neighborhood in Charlotte, and their elementary school experiences attending the all-black Rockwell Rosenwa...

Title: Janet S. Gamble and Delores A. Crowder oral history interview 2, 2004 February 23
Creator: Gamble, Janet S., 1940-
Date Created: 2004-02-23
Subjects--Topical: African American elementary schools, African American school children, Segregation in education, Rural schools, School integration
Description: In this second of two interviews, Mecklenburg County natives Janet Gamble and Delores Crowder discuss their private family lives, the Derita neighborhood in Charlotte, and their elementary school experiences attending the all-black Rockwell Rosenw...

Title: Howard DeHart oral history interview, 2008 March 20
Creator: DeHart, Howard
Date Created: 2008-03-20
Subjects--Topical: Motorsports, Stock car racing, Stock cars (Automobiles), Automobile mechanics, Pit crew chiefs, Pit crews, Automobiles, Racing--Design and construction, Automobiles, Racing--Motors
Description: Howard DeHart reflects on his life, the early days of NASCAR, and his career with the Holman Moody racing shop in Charlotte. Growing up on his family's farm in rural Virginia during the Great Depression, Mr. DeHart explains how his interest in mec...

Title: Gail E. Haley oral history interview 10, 2007 July 2
Creator: Haley, Gail E.
Date Created: 2007-07-02
Subjects--Topical: Cats in literature, Children's literature, Illustrations, Painting, Publishers and publishing, Puss in Boots (Tale)
Description: Gail Haley, an author and illustrator of children's literature born in Charlotte, North Carolina, recounts her career during the early 1990s. In this tenth of sixteen interviews, Ms. Haley discusses her work on Puss in Boots (1991). Ms. Haley rela...

Title: Gail E. Haley oral history interview 3, 2006 April 13
Creator: Haley, Gail E.
Date Created: 2006-04-13
Subjects--Topical: Children's literature, Environmentalism, Illustrations, Linoleum block-printing, Noah's ark, Painting, Pen drawing, Publishers and publishing
Description: Gail Haley, an author and illustrator of children's literature born in Charlotte, North Carolina, recalls her life and evolving career during the 1970s. In this third of sixteen interviews, Ms. Haley discusses the period in her life in which she a...

Title: Brenda Bilal oral history interview 2, 2005 January 13
Creator: Bilal, Brenda, 1950-
Date Created: 2005-01-13
Subjects--Topical: Open plan schools, Multiculturalism, Educational tests and measurements, Active learning, Independent study
Description: In part two of this two-part interview, Brenda Bilal continues discussing her experience with open education in the Charlotte-Mecklenburg school system. Ms. Bilal criticizes the current trend in mainstream education at the time of interview of inc...

Title: Linda Bellamy oral history interview, 2005 October 25
Creator: Bellamy, Linda, 1952-
Date Created: 2005-10-25
Subjects--Topical: English language--Study and teaching--Foreign speakers, Open plan schools, Teachers, Multiculturalism
Description: Linda Bellamy talks about her career at Irwin Elementary and her work in developing the English as a second language (ESL) program in the school. Ms. Bellamy reflects on the challenges she faced in developing this program and in teaching ESL stude...

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: Gail E. Haley oral history interview 4, 2006 May 30
Creator: Haley, Gail E.
Date Created: 2006-05-30
Subjects--Topical: Cats in literature, Children's literature, Costume design, Gouache painting, Illustrations, Kate Greenaway Medal, Working cats
Description: Gail Haley, an author and illustrator of children's literature born in Charlotte, North Carolina, recounts her career during the mid to late 1970s. In this fourth of sixteen interviews, Ms. Haley discusses The Post Office Cat (1976), which was awa...

Title: Rex White oral history interview, 2008 May 15
Creator: White, Rex, 1930-
Date Created: 2008-05-15
Subjects--Topical: Farm life, Stock car drivers, Stock car racing, Motorsports, Pit crews, Automobiles, Racing--Chassis, Automobiles, Racing--Design and construction, Sports--Corrupt practices, Automobile racing--Psychological aspects
Description: In this interview, Rex White recounts his early life and his career as a stock car driver from the 1950s to 1965. He begins by describing his life growing up in rural Taylorsville, North Carolina, including experience working on his father's Ford ...

Title: Beverly Moore oral history interview, 2005 May 27
Creator: Moore, Beverly, 1947-
Date Created: 2005-05-27
Subjects--Topical: Open plan schools, Special education, Exceptional children, Teachers
Description: Beverly Moore discusses her experience with behaviorally and emotionally disturbed children, and her connection with the open school program in Charlotte. While Ms. Moore began her career in the Columbia, South Carolina school district, she eventu...

Title: Gail E. Haley oral history interview 5, 2006 October 12
Creator: Haley, Gail E.
Date Created: 2006-10-12
Subjects--Topical: Children's literature, Folk literature, Illustrations, Kate Greenaway Medal, Linoleum block-printing, Publishers and publishing, Storytelling
Description: Gail Haley, an author and illustrator of children's literature born in Charlotte, North Carolina, recalls her career during the late 1970s. In this fifth of sixteen interviews, Ms. Haley describes her work on Go Away, Stay Away (1977). She recount...

Title: Eugene Payne oral history interview 1, 2005 February 24
Creator: Payne, Eugene G., 1919-2010
Date Created: 2005-02-24
Subjects--Topical: Airplanes--Piloting, Military education, Air pilots, Military, Flight navigators, Airplanes, Military, Family vacations
Description: In this interview, Eugene Payne, former editorial cartoonist for the Charlotte Observer, recounts his family's long history in Charlotte and his military service during World War II. He discusses his educational background, including his time...

Title: Gail E. Haley oral history interview 9, 2007 May 25
Creator: Haley, Gail E.
Date Created: 2007-05-25
Subjects--Topical: Children's literature, Color separation, Illustrations, Linoleum block-printing, Mermaids in literature
Description: Gail Haley, an author and illustrator of children's literature born in Charlotte, North Carolina, recounts her career during the late 1980s and early 1990s. In this ninth of sixteen interviews, Ms. Haley recalls her work on A Sea Tale (1990). Ms. ...

Title: Martha O'Neill oral history interview, 2005 August 12
Creator: O'Neill, Martha, 1956-
Date Created: 2005-08-12
Subjects--Topical: Open plan schools, Drama in education, Arts in education, Musicals, School field trips, Sex instruction, Teachers
Description: Martha O'Neill shares her experiences as a drama teacher at Piedmont Open Middle School in Charlotte. She describes the characteristics of open education as it was understood and practiced within the school, including a focus on the whole child, a...

Title: Gail E. Haley oral history interview 12, 2008 January 16
Creator: Haley, Gail E.
Date Created: 2008-01-16
Subjects--Topical: Children's literature, Illustrations, Jack tales, Mountains--Folklore, Puppet making, Storytelling
Description: Gail Haley, an author and illustrator of children's literature born in Charlotte, North Carolina, recounts her career during the early 1990s. In this twelfth of sixteen interviews, Ms. Haley continues the conversation from her eleventh interview a...

Title: Pamela Grant oral history interview, 2005 May 31
Creator: Grant, Pamela M., 1942-
Date Created: 2005-05-31
Subjects--Topical: Open plan schools, Open learning, Social sciences--Study and teaching (Secondary)
Description: Pamela M. Grant recounts her twenty-six year teaching career at Piedmont Open Middle School. Mrs. Grant became involved with the open learning movement in education during the late 1960s, and gave up a career in academia in order to teach at Piedm...

Title: Brenda Bilal oral history interview 1, 2005 January 6
Creator: Bilal, Brenda, 1950-
Date Created: 2005-01-06
Subjects--Topical: Open plan schools, Education, Elementary, Multiculturalism, Educational tests and measurements, Active learning, Independent study
Description: In part one of this two-part interview, Brenda Bilal discusses her experience with open education in the Charlotte Mecklenburg school system. Ms. Bilal describes open education as a method that gives students the opportunity to think creatively, m...

Title: Gail E. Haley oral history interview 13, 2008 January 18
Creator: Haley, Gail E.
Date Created: 2008-01-18
Subjects--Topical: Acrylic painting, Chapbooks, Children's literature, Folk literature, Illustrations
Description: Gail Haley, an author and illustrator of children's literature born in Charlotte, North Carolina, recounts her career in the 1990s. In this thirteenth of sixteen interviews, Ms. Haley recalls her work on Dream Peddler (1993). Ms. Haley describes h...

Title: T. Taylor Warren oral history interview 2, 2006 January 12
Creator: Warren, T. Taylor (Thomas Taylor), 1925-2008
Date Created: 2006-01-12
Subjects--Topical: Sports photographers, Photography of sports, Photojournalism, Stock car drivers, Stock car racing, Motorsports, Motorsports--Economic aspects, Women automobile racing drivers, African American automobile racing drivers, Automobile racing managers, Automobile racing--Employees, Automobile racing--Sociological aspects
Description: Motorsports photographer T. Taylor Warren reflects in this second interview on the culture of NASCAR during the 1950s-1980s and on how the stock car industry has changed through the time of the interview in 2006. He begins by discussing the Nation...

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