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Andrew P. Haywood oral history interview 3, 1997 November 4
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Creator
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Haywood, Andrew Perry, 1933-2006
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Date Created
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1997-11-04
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Subjects--Topical
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High schools--Administration, High school principals, School integration, Race relations in school management, Teacher-student relationships
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Description
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Dr. Andrew "Sam" Haywood discusses his role as principal of Independence and West Charlotte High Schools and as chairman of county high school principals during the turbulent years of desegregation. He describes the benefits of desegregation and r...
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Barbara Campbell oral history interview, 1998 November 13
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Creator
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Campbell, Barbara, 1943-
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Date Created
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1998-11-13
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Subjects--Topical
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Girls' schools, Race relations, Racism, Foreign study, Political and social views, Managed care plans (Medical care), Abortion--Public opinion, Mass media--Influence, Recycling industry
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Longtime Charlotte resident Barbara Campbell discusses her life, career, and opinion on current political issues at the time of the interview. She talks about growing up in Long Island, New York, and attending an all girls' boarding school in Rhod...
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Benjamin F. Wyant Jr. oral history interview, 1994 November 2
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Creator
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Wyant, Benjamin F. (Benjamin Frank), Jr., 1920-1998
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Date Created
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1994-11-02
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Subjects--Topical
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Depressions, African Americans--Employment, Industrial relations, Political and social views, Political parties, Segregation
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Description
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Benjamin F. Wyant, Jr. recounts his memories of growing up in the Charlotte neighborhood of Dilworth and of his forty-three year career at Duke Power Company. In particular, he recalls working as a boy at his father's family business during the ch...
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Betty Morgan oral history interview, 2006 March 26
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Creator
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Morgan, Betty, 1932-
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Date Created
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2006-03-26
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Subjects--Topical
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Country life, Rural families, Education, Rural, Education, Elementary, College students, Rural electrification
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Description
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Betty Morgan recounts her life growing up in rural Rowan County, North Carolina. One of nine children, Mrs. Morgan discusses growing up on her family's small farm and how they grew the majority of their own food, as well as cotton. The farm lacked...
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Brett Gilbert oral history interview, 2006 October 26
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Creator
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Gilbert, Brett, 1941-
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Date Created
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2006-10-26
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Subjects--Topical
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Race relations, Country life, Social values, Soldiers, Civil rights movements
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Description
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Brett Gilbert recounts his life and experiences in Lincoln County and in Charlotte, North Carolina. Growing up on a dairy farm in rural Lincoln County, Mr. Gilbert explains how most people were poor farmers and that with the exception of atomic bo...
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Chris Folk oral history interview 2, 1996 September 16
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Creator
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Folk, Chris Evans, 1930-2010
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Date Created
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1996-09-16
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Subjects--Topical
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School integration, Busing for school integration, Magnet schools, Civil rights, Discrimination in education, Families--Education, Race relations
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Description
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Dr. Chris Folk, former associate superintendent and longtime employee of the Charlotte-Mecklenburg school system, discusses his life and work as an educator. After reflecting on his early experiences as the son of a textile mill superintendent in ...
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Christine Miller oral history interview, 2006 November 19
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Creator
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Miller, Christine P., 1927-
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Date Created
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2006-11-19
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Subjects--Topical
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Country life, Working mothers, Small business, Hardware stores, Tithes
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Description
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Christine Miller recounts her life growing up in Salisbury, North Carolina, as well as her forty years living in Charlotte. She describes living on her family's five-acre farm in the country outside of Salisbury and her time working at Ketner's Su...
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David Goldfield lecture, circa 1991
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Creator
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Goldfield, David R., 1944-
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Date Created
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circa 1991
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Subjects--Topical
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Cities and towns--Growth, City planning, Rural-urban migration, Migration, Internal, Race discrimination, Corporations--Growth, Urban renewal
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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...
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David Hunter oral history interview 1, 1996 October 2
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Creator
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Hunter, David, 1933-
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Date Created
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1996-10-02
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Subjects--Topical
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Civil rights, Discrimination in education, College teachers, College administrators, Educational equalization
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Description
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Dr. David Hunter discusses his personal experiences with education and his lifelong work as an educator in his hometown of Charlotte, North Carolina. He describes growing up in the African American neighborhood of Cherry, attending segregated scho...
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Elizabeth Biggerstaff oral history interview, 1996 October 18
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Creator
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Biggerstaff, Elizabeth, 1922-
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Date Created
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1996-10-18
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Subjects--Topical
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Country life, Mills and mill-work, Manners and customs, Education, Rural, Women in war, Working mothers, Small business--Management, Women--Political activity, Race relations
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Rutherford County native Elizabeth Biggerstaff describes her life and how she balances work and family. She describes her early life growing up in the country outside of Cliffside, North Carolina, with two older brothers and attending local school...
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Frances Blanton oral history interview, 1992 November 24
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Creator
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Blanton, Frances B.
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Date Created
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1992-11-24
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Subjects--Topical
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Social values, Country life, Manners and customs, Dating (Social customs), Homemakers
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Longtime Charlotte resident Frances Blanton discusses her family, and her childhood and adolescence. She describes visiting her grandparents on their farm in Cabarrus County, where they made their own butter, cream, and sausage. Mrs. Blanton began...
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G. Jackson Burney oral history interview, 1997 September 4
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Creator
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Burney, G. Jackson, 1927-
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Date Created
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1997-09-04
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Subjects--Topical
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Radio broadcasting, Music, Voluntarism, Race relations, Poliomyelitis, People with disabilities, Discrimination in employment
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Description
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Charlottean G. Jackson Burney discusses his career in the communications industry, his family, and his volunteer work. He contracted polio at a young age and discusses throughout the interview how the disease impacted his life. Mr. Burney describe...
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Jeanne Brayboy oral history interview, 1997 September 25
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Creator
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Brayboy, Jeanne, 1930-
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Date Created
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1997-09-25
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Subjects--Topical
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Music--Study and teaching (Elementary), Segregation in education, School integration, School integration--Public opinion, Busing for school integration, Race relations
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Jeanne Brayboy recounts her life, career as an elementary school music teacher, and firsthand experience of Charlotte's schools before and after integration. She moved to Charlotte after college and began teaching in segregated black schools, whic...
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Jeffrey L. Nance oral history interview, 1997 September 30
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Creator
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Nance, Jeffrey L. (Jeffrey Lane), 1956-
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Date Created
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1997-09-30
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Subjects--Topical
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School integration, Segregation in education, Race relations, Educational equalization, Busing for school integration, Busing for school integration--Public opinion, Race riots
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Computer programmer Jeffrey Nance, a native of the Charlotte region, discusses his experiences attending Garinger High School during school integration in the early 1970s. Mr. Nance was finishing the eighth grade when the Supreme Court determined ...
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John Hancock oral history interview, 1997 November 25
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Creator
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Hancock, John, 1955-
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Date Created
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1997-11-25
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Subjects--Topical
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School integration, Busing for school integration, Race relations, Racism, School violence
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John Hancock recounts his experiences as a high school student during the first years of integration of the Charlotte-Mecklenburg school system. Mr. Hancock attended Garinger High School from 1970 to 1973 and explains that while most of the studen...
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Julia Perryman oral history interview, 1997 September 26
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Perryman, Julia Royals, 1926-2009
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Date Created
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1997-09-26
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Subjects--Topical
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Depressions, Families--Economic aspects, Families--Social life and customs, Nursing, Poliomyelitis
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Julia Perryman recalls her experience growing up in Thomasville, North Carolina in the 1930s and 1940s. She discusses the difficult financial hardships that her family endured after her father was left paralyzed following an illness and could no l...
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Julius L. Chambers oral history interview, 1997 October 24
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Creator
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Chambers, Julius L. (Julius LeVonne), 1936-2013
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Date Created
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1997-10-24
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Subjects--Topical
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Segregation in education, Busing for school integration, Trials, litigation, etc., School integration, School integration--Public opinion, Civil rights, Political and social views
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Charlotte attorney Julius L. Chambers, who represented the plaintiffs in the landmark case, Swann v. Charlotte-Mecklenburg Board of Education, talks at length about the integration of schools in Charlotte and Mecklenburg County during the late 196...
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Leon Lowder oral history interview, 1999 March 6
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Creator
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Lowder, Leon, 1906-
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Date Created
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1999-03-06
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Subjects--Topical
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Cotton growing, Country life, Farm life, Farm management, Farm management--Economic aspects, Family farms, Race relations, Political and social views
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Description
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Leon Lowder recounts his life, family, and work in retail and farming in central South Carolina from the 1930s-1980s. Mr. Lowder describes being the seventh out of eleven children in a farming family and leaving home in 1926 to work in the grocery...
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Louise Smith Brennan oral history interview, circa 1990-1999
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Brennan, Louise Smith, 1922-2007
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Date Created
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circa 1990-1999
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Subjects--Topical
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African Americans--Segregation, Elections, Mills and mill-work, Political parties, Women legislators, Women--Political activity, Women political candidates
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Louise Brennan recounts her early life growing up in Concord, North Carolina. She discusses the important role of education in her upbringing and the prevalence of textile mills in the Concord area. She describes living near a mill village in Conc...
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Lucille Harwood oral history interview, 1994 October 8
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Creator
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Harwood, Lucille, 1921-
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Date Created
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1994-10-08
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Subjects--Topical
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Depressions, Race relations, African Americans--Segregation
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Albemarle native Lucille Harwood recounts her experiences during the Great Depression, World War II, and the second half of the twentieth century. She describes growing up very poor during the Depression, but explains how families would always sha...