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Title: Sequoyah Cottoms oral history interview, 2021 March 4
Creator: Cottoms, Sequoyah
Date Created: 2021-03-04
Subjects--Topical: College students, Universities and colleges--Alumni and alumnae, African Americans--Education, Police shootings, Student teaching
Description: Sequoyah Cottoms shares her experience as an undergraduate student at UNC Charlotte from 2014 to 2017. [All times approximate] Sequoyah shares what going to college meant to her as a first-generation student and why she transferred to UNC Charlott...

Title: E. Terrell Blackmon oral history interview, 2020 December 04
Creator: Blackmon, E. Terrell (Edward Terrell)
Date Created: 2020-12-04
Subjects--Topical: College students, College students, Black, Universities and colleges--Alumni and alumnae, African Americans--Education, City planning
Description: E. Terrell Blackmon shares experiences from his time as a student at the University of North Carolina-Charlotte.[All times approximate.] Topics discussed include the influence of Africana studies on Black students [16 min], student organizations s...

Title: James B. Lee oral history interview 2, 2018 May 29
Date Created: 2018-05-29
Subjects--Topical: Gentrification, Gentrification--Government policy, African American neighborhoods, School integration, Community organization, African American churches, Mentoring
Description: In this second interview, community historian James Bradley Lee III continues to recall his personal experiences of growing up in Grier Heights, a historic African American neighborhood in Charlotte, North Carolina, and his concerns about the effe...

Title: Calvin L. Brown oral history interview, 2004 April 27
Creator: Brown, Calvin L. (Calvin Lee), 1935-
Date Created: 2007-04-27
Subjects--Topical: African Americans--Segregation, African American lawyers, Discrimination in public accommodations, Civil rights movements, Urban renewal, African American churches, African American neighborhoods
Description: Calvin Brown shares his memories of living in Charlotte, North Carolina during a time when segregation was being challenged by civil rights groups. He moved to Charlotte in 1961 after completing law school, and discusses representing clients, part...

Title: Arthur Stinson oral history interview, 2007 April 23
Creator: Stinson, Arthur L. (Arthur Lee), 1933-2013
Date Created: 2007-04-23
Subjects--Topical: African Americans--Segregation, Civil rights movements, African American schools, African American neighborhoods, Urban renewal, African American business enterprises, City and town life, Amusements
Description: Arthur L. Stinson recounts his experiences growing up in the Brooklyn neighborhood of Charlotte, North Carolina, also known as Second Ward. He discusses schools and businesses in Brooklyn, working as a teenager in the coal yard and wood yard, and ...

Title: Margaret Alexander oral history interview 3, 2007 April 2
Creator: Alexander, Margaret G. A., 1924-
Date Created: 2007-04-02
Subjects--Topical: African Americans--Segregation, African American neighborhoods, African Americans and libraries, Civil rights movements, Racism, Cities and towns--Growth, Urban renewal
Description: Charlotte, North Carolina native Margaret Alexander discusses her fifteen years of memories of living in the Brooklyn neighborhood of Charlotte, also known as Second Ward, before her family was forced to move due to urban renewal. She discusses he...

Title: Vernon M. Herron oral history interview, 2007 March 13
Creator: Herron, Vernon M. (Vernon Mack), 1928-
Date Created: 2007-03-13
Subjects--Topical: African Americans--Segregation, African American churches, African American neighborhoods, African Americans--Religion, African Americans--Education, African American families, African Americans--Housing, Urban renewal
Description: Dr. Vernon Herron shares his memories of growing up near the Brooklyn neighborhood of Charlotte, North Carolina, also known as Second Ward. Mr. Herron describes his education attending Myers Street Elementary and Second Ward High School, where he ...

Title: John Archibald oral history interview, 2004 April 1
Creator: Archibald, John, 1925-2008
Date Created: 2004-04-01
Subjects--Topical: Working class families, Working class, Mills and mill-work, Industrial housing, Vocational education, Shipyards, Labor unions, War, Americans--Public opinion, Bombings, Airplanes, Military, Poverty, Racism, Racism--Economic aspects, Work environment, Veterans
Description: John Archibald recounts growing up in the Leakesville-Spray area of Rockingham Country, North Carolina, his time as a soldier during World War II, and his life and career after the war. As Mr. Archibald grew older, he became aware that his educati...

Title: Daisy Stroud oral history interview 1, June 20, 2001
Creator: Stroud, Daisy S., 1921-
Date Created: 2001-06-20
Subjects--Topical: African American neighborhoods, African Americans--Segregation, Segregation in education, School integration, School integration--Public opinion, Race relations, Education, Civil rights movements, Civil rights demonstrations
Description: Daisy Spears Stroud, a native of Charlotte, recounts her experiences growing up in the First Ward neighborhood and her career in the Charlotte-Mecklenburg school system before and during desegregation in the 1950s-1970s. She describes her experien...

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: Alfred Alexander oral history interview, 2001 May 10
Creator: Alexander, Alfred L., 1952-
Date Created: 2001-05-10
Subjects--Topical: African Americans--Segregation, Civil rights movements, Segregation in education, School integration, Bombings, Busing for school integration, Discrimination in public accommodations, Group identity, Race relations
Description: Alfred Alexander describes his early life in Charlotte, North Carolina during the 1950s-1970s as the son of prominent civil rights pioneer Kelly Alexander Sr., a leader in the Charlotte and the North Carolina branches of the NAACP. As a child he l...

Title: Kelly Alexander Jr. oral history interview 1, 2001 May 1
Creator: Alexander, Kelly M., Jr., 1948-
Date Created: 2001-05-01
Subjects--Topical: Political leadership, African Americans--Segregation, Segregation in education, School integration, Busing for school integration, Race relations, Education, Civil rights movements, Civil rights demonstrations, Cities and towns--Growth
Description: Kelly Alexander Jr., the son of local, state, and national NAACP leader and local businessman Kelly M. Alexander, Sr. and Margaret Alexander, recounts his active involvement in civil rights in Charlotte, North Carolina and the larger community. He...

Title: Charlotte branch by-law revisions and memorandum
Creator: Alexander, Kelly M.
Date Created: 1997
Subjects--Topical: African Americans, African Americans--Civil rights, Civil rights movements, Civil rights workers, African Americans--Housing, Racism--Political aspects, Race discrimination, Police brutality, Police misconduct, Race relations, Politics and government

Title: Press releases and Act-So committee
Creator: Alexander, Kelly M.
Date Created: 1997
Subjects--Topical: African Americans, African Americans--Civil rights, Civil rights movements, Civil rights workers, African Americans--Housing, Racism--Political aspects, Race discrimination, Police brutality, Police misconduct, Race relations, Politics and government

Title: Press releases and Act-So committee
Creator: Alexander, Kelly M.
Date Created: 1997
Subjects--Topical: African Americans, African Americans--Civil rights, Civil rights movements, Civil rights workers, African Americans--Housing, Racism--Political aspects, Race discrimination, Police brutality, Police misconduct, Race relations, Politics and government

Title: Act-So committee
Creator: Alexander, Kelly M.
Date Created: 1997
Subjects--Topical: African Americans, African Americans--Civil rights, Civil rights movements, Civil rights workers, African Americans--Housing, Racism--Political aspects, Race discrimination, Police brutality, Police misconduct, Race relations, Politics and government

Title: NAACP
Creator: Gantt, Harvey B. (Harvey Bernard), 1943-
Date Created: 1996-11-01
Subjects--Topical: Political campaigns, Politics and government, African Americans--Politics and government, Education, Education, Higher, Education and state, Higher education and state, Medicare, Social security--Government policy, School children--Food, Student loans, Subsidies, Charitable uses, trusts, and foundations, Gifts, Conflict of interests, Older people, Minimum wage--Law and legislation--U.S. states, Political participation
Description: Harvey Gantt delivers a campaign speech after lunch sponsored by the NAACP. Gantt promotes other Democratic candidates running for office in 1996, then begins talking about his platform. Gantt says that he has been talking to working families abou...

Title: Cleveland County NAACP
Creator: Gantt, Harvey B. (Harvey Bernard), 1943-
Date Created: 1996-02-10
Subjects--Topical: Political campaigns, Politics and government, African Americans--Politics and government, Civil rights movements, Race relations
Description: Gantt makes a speech encouraging the audience to continue supporting the NAACP, even after the height of the Civil Rights Movement

Title: Act-So Program
Creator: Alexander, Kelly M.
Date Created: 1996
Subjects--Topical: African Americans, African Americans--Civil rights, Civil rights movements, Civil rights workers, African Americans--Housing, Racism--Political aspects, Race discrimination, Police brutality, Police misconduct, Race relations, Politics and government

$NAACP \News and Views\$

Title: NAACP \News and Views\
Creator: Alexander, Kelly M.
Date Created: 1996
Subjects--Topical: African Americans, African Americans--Civil rights, Civil rights movements, Civil rights workers, African Americans--Housing, Racism--Political aspects, Race discrimination, Police brutality, Police misconduct, Race relations, Politics and government

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