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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: 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: 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: Dorothy Counts-Scoggins oral history interview 1, circa 2004-2006
Creator: Counts-Scoggins, Dorothy, 1942-
Date Created: 2004, 2006
Subjects--Topical: Civil rights movements, School integration, Racism in education, De facto school segregation, African Americans--Education (Secondary), African Americans--Civil rights, African American families, African American neighborhoods, Race relations
Description: Dorothy Counts-Scoggins was the first African American student to attend the all-white Harding High School as part of the Charlotte City Schools' first reluctant attempt at school desegregation in 1957. In this interview, Mrs. Counts-Scoggins refl...

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: 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: Margaret Murphy oral history interview, 2020 July 30
Creator: Murphy, Margaret, 2000-
Subjects--Topical: School shootings, College students, Gun control, Homicide--Prevention, Memorials, Local government--Political aspects, Political activists
Description: Margaret Murphy, a UNC Charlotte rising junior, university chapter Director for March For Our Lives, (MFOL) and Co-Director for North Carolina MFOL, discusses her experiences related to April 30, 2019 when a gunman opened fire in a classroom on th...

Title: Mary Lou Clarke oral history interview, 2001 May 11
Creator: Clarke, Mary Lou, 1932-2006
Date Created: 2001-05-11
Subjects--Topical: Segregation, Civil rights movements, Race relations, Boycotts, Health promotion, AIDS activists, Medical assistants, Nurses' aides
Description: Mary Clarke, Charlotte-Mecklenburg NAACP president (1986-1990), describes her experiences working for the NAACP from the 1950s to the 1990s, with attention given to her early role as a fundraiser and her later work as chapter president. Ms. Clarke...

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: NAACP Youths picketing, Edenton, N.C. image 1
Date Created: 1961
Subjects--Topical: African Americans--Segregation, Civil rights workers, Civil rights movements, Youth protest movements, Civil rights demonstrations

Title: NAACP Youths picketing, Edenton, N.C. image 2
Date Created: 1961
Subjects--Topical: African Americans--Segregation, Civil rights workers, Civil rights movements, Youth protest movements, Civil rights demonstrations

Title: NAACP and 1980 elections cartoon
Creator: Payne, Eugene G., 1919-2010
Date Created: 1980-03-10
Subjects--Topical: Political cartoons, Politics and government--Caricatures and cartoons, Presidential candidates, African Americans--Politics and government, African Americans--Suffrage, Voting, Politics and government
Description: Topics include: 1980 United States presidential election; NAACP; Black voters; Political candidates; United States politics and government

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: 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: Taylor and Richardson families album
Date Created: 1876, 1953
Subjects--Topical: African American families, African American politicians, African Americans--Social life and customs, Freedmen
Description: The Taylor and Richardson families album contains photographs and other materials that document the life of Charles Samuel Lafayette Alexander Taylor, an African American barber, soldier, and firefighter active in numerous social and political cau...

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 ...

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