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Anne Steele oral history interview, 2015 April 11
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Creator
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Steele, Anne, 1930-
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Date Created
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2015-04-11
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Subjects--Topical
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African American families, African American neighborhoods
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Description
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Anne Steele recalls initially moving to the Historic Washington Heights community in Charlotte North Carolina to provide assistance to her aging aunt in the 1990s. Thinking about the twenty years she has spent living in the neighborhood, she remem...
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C. Morgan Edwards oral history interview 2, 2015 April 12
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Creator
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Edwards, C. Morgan (Calvin Morgan), 1938-
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Date Created
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2015-04-12
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Subjects--Topical
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African American neighborhoods, Transportation, Business enterprises, Black, Segregation, School integration, Urban renewal, African American photographers
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Description
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Mr. C. Morgan Edwards discusses his life and upbringing in the Washington Heights neighborhood in Charlotte, North Carolina. Born and raised in the community and currently a resident, he recalls how during his youth the community was a mixed incom...
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John L. Holloway oral history interview, 2007 August 27
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Creator
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Holloway, John L., 1925-
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Date Created
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2007-08-27
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Subjects--Topical
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African American schools, African American neighborhoods, Race relations, School integration, Marching bands, Music--Instruction and study, Jazz musicians, Jazz--Instruction and study
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John L. Holloway recounts his almost forty years as a high school band director and jazz musician in Charlotte, North Carolina. Mr. Holloway describes moving from Durham, North Carolina to Charlotte in 1950 after completing his education to teach ...
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Mattie Marshall oral history interview 1, 2015 October 31
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Creator
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Marshall, Mattie, 1948-
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Date Created
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2015-10-31
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Subjects--Topical
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Community development, Gentrification, Urban renewal, Urban transportation, African American families, African American neighborhoods
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Description
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In this interview, Mattie Marshall, president of the Historic Washington Heights Neighborhood Association in Charlotte North Carolina, discusses her origins as a sharecropper's daughter in Georgia, her family's migration north to New Yor...
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Shateah Marshall oral history interview, 2015 April 10
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Creator
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Marshall, Shateah
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Date Created
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2015-04-10
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Subjects--Topical
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Community development, Urban, Demographic transition, African American families, African American neighborhoods
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Description
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Shateah Marshall, a twenty-four year old resident of Washington Heights in Charlotte, North Carolina, discusses her perspective on the neighborhood as a younger resident. She relates that her family has lived in the neighborhood for four generatio...
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Vera Williams oral history interview, 2015 November 18
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Williams, Vera, 1938-
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Date Created
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2015-11-18
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Subjects--Topical
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African American neighborhoods, After-school programs
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Description
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In this interview, Vera Williams, a resident of Washington Heights in Charlotte North Carolina, describes the changes that have taken place in the neighborhood since she moved there in 1984, and the issues she sees remaining in the community. Mrs....