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Title: Ben E. Douglas oral history interview 2, 1979 May 23
Creator: Douglas, Ben E. (Ben Elbert), 1894-1981
Date Created: 1979-05-23
Subjects--Topical: Depressions, Municipal government, Urban transportation, Airports--Planning, City planning
Description: Ben Douglas discusses his tenure as mayor of Charlotte, North Carolina from 1935 to 1941. He discusses the structure of city government in the 1920s and explains that he was the first Charlotte mayor to be directly elected by voters. He describes ...

Title: Thereasea Delerine Elder oral history interview 2, 2001 May 9
Creator: Elder, Thereasea D. Clark (Thereasea Delerine Clark), 1927-2021
Date Created: 2001-05-09
Subjects--Topical: African American nurses, Public health nursing, Health and race, Discrimination in medical care, Household employees, Housing, Race relations, Civil rights movements, Segregation, School integration
Description: Thereasea Elder recounts her and her family's experiences living in Charlotte throughout the twentieth century, as well as her forty-five years as a nurse. Growing up in a segregated Charlotte, she describes life in the close-knit African American...

Title: Mary Kate B. Newell oral history interview, 1979 May 24
Creator: Newell, Mary Kate B. (Mary Kate Banton), 1894-1988
Date Created: 1979-05-24
Subjects--Topical: Hospitals--Administration, Manners and customs, Cities and towns--Growth
Description: Mary Kate Newell recounts moving to Charlotte, North Carolina in 1914 from Atlanta, Georgia to attend nurse training school at Presbyterian Hospital, where she was later employed. Topics discussed include the doctors she worked with, advancement o...

Title: But I'm a relative, financially speaking
Creator: Payne, Eugene G., 1919-2010
Date Created: 1969-01-05
Subjects--Topical: Political cartoons, Politics and government--Caricatures and cartoons, Cities and towns--Politics and government, Hospitals--Finance, County budgets
Description: Topics include: Mecklenburg Board of County Commissioners; Charlotte Memorial Hospital; Charlotte and Mecklenburg County politics and government

Title: We've been expecting you!
Creator: Payne, Eugene G., 1919-2010
Date Created: 1980-05-22
Subjects--Topical: Political cartoons, Politics and government--Caricatures and cartoons, Fund raising, Embezzlement, Nonprofit organizations
Description: Topics include: Charlotte Memorial Hospital; North Carolina Jaycees; Fundraising; Misappropriation of funds

Title: Mildred M. Siderman oral history interview, 1979 May 25
Creator: Siderman, Mildred M. (Mildred McKee), 1919-2016
Date Created: 1979-05-25
Subjects--Topical: Families--Social life and customs, Transportation, Floods
Description: Mildred M. Siderman recounts her years working as a practical nurse in Charlotte, North Carolina at Charlotte Memorial Hospital before she moved out of state in 1944. Other topics include how the North Carolina flood of 1916 affected her family in...