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Title: Humphrey Cummings oral history interview, 2004 December 14
Creator: Cummings, Humphrey
Date Created: 2004-12-14
Subjects--Topical: African American college students, Student movements, African American college students--Political activity, School integration, African American neighborhoods, Civil rights movements, Civil rights demonstrations, Race relations, Urban renewal
Description: Charlotte attorney Humphrey Cummings shares his memories of his time as an African American student at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte (UNC Charlotte) during the late 1960s and early 1970s. As one out of a class of around thirty blac...

Title: Reginald A. Hawkins oral history interview 1, 2001 June 11
Creator: Hawkins, Reginald Armistice, 1923-2007
Date Created: 2001-06-11
Subjects--Topical: African American political activists, African Americans--Social conditions, Civil rights movements, Civil rights demonstrations, African Americans--Segregation, Political participation, Segregation in education, School integration, Trials, litigation, etc.
Description: In this interview, Dr. Reginald Armistice Hawkins discusses his significant involvement in the African American Civil Rights Movement nationally, within the state of North Carolina, and in Mecklenburg County. Mr. Hawkins candidly describes his exp...

Title: Sidney Freeman oral history interview 1, 2003 May 21
Creator: Freeman, Sidney L.
Date Created: 2003-05-21
Subjects--Topical: Civil rights movements, Civil rights demonstrations, Civil rights, Segregation, Discrimination in education, School integration, Education--Political aspects, Trials, litigation, etc., Equality, Race relations, Racism, College teachers, Unitarian churches--Clergy
Description: Rev. Dr. Sidney L. Freeman, the longtime minister of the Unitarian Universalist Church of Charlotte (UUCC), recounts his involvement in the city's civil rights movement. Originally from Wisconsin, Dr. Freeman moved to Charlotte in 1957 to take the...