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Title: Darryl Gaston oral history interview, 2015 November 2
Creator: Gaston, D. Reginald (Darryl Reginald)
Date Created: 2015-11-02
Subjects--Topical: Race discrimination, Community development, Urban, Citizens' associations
Description: Darryl Reginald Gaston served as the President of the Druid Hills Neighborhood Association in Charlotte North Carolina for nearly a decade. Born in 1961, Mr. Gaston grew up on Edison Street, located in Druid Hills, which he describes as a tight-kn...

Title: David Goldfield lecture, circa 1991
Creator: Goldfield, David R., 1944-
Date Created: circa 1991
Subjects--Topical: Cities and towns--Growth, City planning, Rural-urban migration, Migration, Internal, Race discrimination, Corporations--Growth, Urban renewal
Description: In this 1991 lecture, "A Southern Century," UNC Charlotte history professor Dr. David Goldfield discusses the changing social and economic status of the American South in the twentieth century. Setting the context for the growth that took shape in...

Title: Fotuchang, Nicole oral history interview, 2020 December 13
Creator: Fotuchang, Nicole
Date Created: 2020-12-13
Subjects--Topical: COVID-19 (Disease), Black lives matter movement, Race discrimination, Social justice, Police brutality, Distance education
Description: UNC Charlotte student Nicole Fotuchang discusses her experiences during 2020 with reference to COVID-19, racial injustices, remote learning, and other topics. Specific personal stories include her relation to the Black Lives Matter movement and pr...

Title: Geraldine T. Powe oral history interview, 2005 March 20
Creator: Powe, Geraldine T. (Geraldine Torrence), 1922-2012
Date Created: 2005-03-20
Subjects--Topical: African Americans--Segregation, Segregation in education, African American schools, African American school children, School discipline, Corporal punishment of children, School integration, Race discrimination, Public welfare, Voluntarism, Values--Religious aspects--Christianity
Description: Geraldine Powe discusses her education in segregated schools in Charlotte, North Carolina. She talks about positive relationships between parents and teachers; living briefly in New York City as a student; school discipline, including paddling in ...

Title: Harvey Gantt oral history interview, 2021 July 6
Creator: Gantt, Harvey B. (Harvey Bernard), 1943-
Date Created: 2021-07-06
Subjects--Topical: Young Men's Christian associations, Social integration, Race discrimination
Description: Harvey Gantt settled in Charlotte, North Carolina in the early 1970s after becoming the first African American to attend Clemson University, where he studied architecture and urban planning. He became a key figure in Charlotte's business and ...

Title: Jack Claiborne oral history interview 1, 2003 June 5
Creator: Claiborne, Jack
Date Created: 2003-06-05
Subjects--Topical: Editorials, Sports journalism, Newspapers, Journalists, Newspaper editors, Segregation, Race discrimination, Race relations
Description: Jack Claiborne, former editor at the Charlotte Observer and former director of public relations at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte (UNC Charlotte), reflects on his life, work, and the city of Charlotte. Mr. Claiborne talks about his ...

Title: Jacob Matson oral history interview, 2000 December 5
Creator: Matson, Jacob Ethan
Date Created: 2020-12-05
Subjects--Topical: COVID-19 (Disease), Race discrimination, Social justice, Distance education
Description: UNC Charlotte student Jacob Matson discusses his experience in 2020, during the Coronavirus pandemic and a time of social and racial injustice across America, with a focus on Charlotte and Matthews, North Carolina. Topics discussed include his exp...

Title: James L. Ross oral history interview 3, 2005 March 22
Creator: Ross, James L., 1934-
Date Created: 2005-03-22
Subjects--Topical: African American neighborhoods, African Americans--Segregation, Segregation in education, Race discrimination, Discrimination in employment, Race relations, Community organization, Group relations training, Civil rights movements
Description: James Ross, a native of Mecklenburg County, discusses his experiences with racial segregation and civil rights activism in Charlotte, North Carolina. Growing up in rural Grier Heights, Mr. Ross attended Billingsville Rosenwald Elementary School an...

Title: Johnny C. Taylor Jr. oral history interview 2, 2004 May 12
Creator: Taylor, Johnny C., 1968-
Date Created: 2004-05-12
Subjects--Topical: Lawyers, African Americans--Social conditions, Race discrimination, Voluntarism, African American business enterprises
Description: Johnny C. Taylor Jr. recounts his education and his career as a corporate lawyer. He speaks about discrimination in corporate America he has faced as an African American, and how he has handled it. He also discusses his volunteer work giving back ...

Title: Johnson, Kylie oral history interview, 2020 November 23
Creator: Johnson, Kylie Gabrielle
Date Created: 2020-11-23
Subjects--Topical: COVID-19 (Disease), Race discrimination, Social justice, Distance education
Description: UNC Charlotte student Kylie Johnson discusses her experience in 2020 amidst the Covid-19 pandemic, as well as in the setting of racial injustices across the nation, mainly focused in Charlotte and Mooresville, North Carolina. Topics discussed incl...

Title: Jonathan Scoggin oral history interview, 2004 November 20
Creator: Scoggin, Jonathan D., 1947-
Date Created: 2004-11-20
Subjects--Topical: Racism, Race discrimination, White supremacy movements
Description: Jonathan Scoggin, son of South Carolina Ku Klux Klan Grand Dragon Robert E. Scoggin, describes his life and his father's involvement with the KKK. Mr. Scoggin remembers his father as a strict disciplinarian with entrenched opinions who saw the Kla...

Title: Mary Vaughn oral history interview, 2006 November 18
Creator: Vaughn, Mary, 1938-
Date Created: 2006-11-18
Subjects--Topical: African Americans--Drug use, Gentrification, Race discrimination, Segregation, Urban renewal, Working poor
Description: Mary Vaughn describes her experiences growing up in the segregated Charlotte neighborhood of Brooklyn and shares her opinions on social issues at the time of interview. She recalls the poor quality of the homes in her neighborhood and how her fami...

Title: Naomi White-Hewitt oral history interview, 2002 November 1
Creator: White-Hewitt, Naomi
Date Created: 2002-11-01
Subjects--Topical: African American families, African Americans--Segregation, Busing for school integration, Land use, Rural, Race relations, Race discrimination, Racism, Family farms, Camp meetings, Teachers, Deeds, Water--Pollution
Description: Naomi White-Hewitt discusses her family's history in Catawba County, North Carolina and her experiences as an African American woman living in a primarily white, rural community. Mrs. White-Hewitt talks about camp meetings, race relations in the a...

Title: Nathaniel Washington oral history interview, 2006 November 14
Creator: Washington, Nathaniel, 1941-
Date Created: 2006-11-14
Subjects--Topical: Race relations, Race discrimination, Racism in the workplace, Segregation in education, Urban renewal
Description: Nathaniel Washington describes his early life in the Third Ward section of Charlotte, North Carolina. He discusses his experience in segregated schools during the 1950s-1960s, explaining that there were inequalities as black schools were supplied ...

Title: Neil, Sarah oral history interview, 2020 November 23
Creator: Neil, Sarah Ann
Date Created: 2020-11-23
Subjects--Topical: COVID-19 (Disease), Race discrimination, Social justice, Distance education, Police brutality
Description: UNC Charlotte student Sarah Neil discusses her experience in 2020, amidst the Covid-19 pandemic, as well as in the setting of racial injustices across the nation, and from the perspective of Charlotte and Belmont, North Carolina. Topics discussed ...

Title: Peggy Scoggin Holland oral history interview 1, 2004 November 5
Creator: Holland, Peggy Scoggin, 1957-
Date Created: 2004-11-05
Subjects--Topical: Racism, Race discrimination, White supremacy movements
Description: Peggy Scoggin Holland recalls memories of her father, Robert E. Scoggin, particularly in regard to his role as a Grand Dragon of the Ku Klux Klan in South Carolina. Mrs. Holland describes her childhood perspective of Klan rallies as social events ...

Title: Price Davis oral history interview 1, 2004 May 25
Creator: Davis, Price, 1920-
Date Created: 2004-05-25
Subjects--Topical: African American schools, African American teachers, Segregation in education, Race relations, Race discrimination, Racism, Police brutality, African Americans--Segregation, African Americans--Social conditions, Civil rights movements, Political and social views
Description: Charlotte, North Carolina native Price Davis shares his experiences of growing up and living in Charlotte during segregation. Mr. Davis talks about attending Morgan School and Second Ward High School in the Brooklyn neighborhood in Charlotte, and ...

Title: Price Davis oral history interview 2, 2004 March 19
Creator: Davis, Price, 1920-
Date Created: 2004-03-19
Subjects--Topical: African American neighborhoods, Segregation, Segregation in education, African Americans--Civil rights, Police brutality, African American police, Race discrimination
Description: Price Davis discusses his memories of living in the Cherry neighborhood in Charlotte, North Carolina and visiting the nearby Brooklyn neighborhood, also known as Second Ward. He shares fond memories of Brooklyn, including attending Second Ward Hig...

Title: Robert L. Barret oral history interview 1, 2014 October 1
Creator: Barret, Robert L.
Date Created: 2014-10-01
Subjects--Topical: Race discrimination, Homophobia, Segregation, Civil rights, Gay men, AIDS (Disease), AIDS (Disease)--Patients--Services for, AIDS (Disease)--Psychological aspects
Description: In this first of three interviews, Dr. Robert L. Barret, professor emeritus in counseling at UNC Charlotte, practicing psychotherapist, and LGBTQ activist, discusses his life and career changes that led up to his involvement as an advocate for LGB...

Title: Rosa Lee Coleman oral history interview, 1979 May 25
Creator: Coleman, Rosa Lee, 1909-1993
Date Created: 1979-05-25
Subjects--Topical: African American household employees, African Americans--Segregation, Household employees, Race discrimination, Race relations, Segregation in transportation
Description: Rosa Lee Coleman recounts her early life in Fayetteville, North Carolina, as well as her employment as a domestic service worker. As an African American, Mrs. Coleman discusses the complicated dynamics of her relationship with her white female emp...

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