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Title: Alma Blake oral history interview, 1993 October 15
Creator: Blake, Alma, approximately 1918-
Date Created: 1993-10-15
Subjects--Topical: Basketball, Basketball for women, Women basketball players, African American basketball players, School sports, Sex role, Basketball coaches, Basketball--Coaching
Description: Former player and coach Alma Blake discusses her life-long involvement with basketball. Throughout the interview, Ms. Blake discusses gender and the game as she reflects upon her own unwillingness to participate in high school basketball under "gi...

Title: Anna L. Heafner, Eunice "Dolly" Hickman, and Maude Pratt oral history interview, 1993 June 1
Creator: Heafner, Anna Lou, 1920-2011
Date Created: 1993-06-01
Subjects--Topical: Basketball, Basketball players, School sports, Basketball for women, Basketball for girls, Basketball--Social aspects, Country life
Description: Anna L. Heafner, Eunice "Dolly" Hickman, and Maude Pratt describe their experiences playing basketball in the Steele Creek area of Mecklenburg County, North Carolina (now part of Charlotte) during the 1930s. They talk about how many of the girls w...

Title: Baxter Wilson oral history interview, 1993 March 9
Creator: Wilson, Baxter, 1917-2002
Date Created: 1993-03-09
Subjects--Topical: Basketball, School sports, Young Men's Christian associations, Basketball players, Basketball teams, Basketball--Tournaments, Basketball coaches, Basketball stories, Gymnasiums
Description: Baxter Wilson discusses playing basketball at Berryhill High School and in youth leagues in Charlotte, North Carolina during the 1930s. He talks about the director of the YMCA, Carl Link, who organized youth basketball leagues in Charlotte and dro...

Title: Elizabeth Callaway oral history interview, 1993 March 11
Creator: Callaway, Elizabeth McCall, 1919-2004
Date Created: 1993-03-11
Subjects--Topical: Basketball, Basketball for women, Women basketball players, Basketball players, Women athletes, School sports, Basketball stories, Basketball teams, Country life
Description: Elizabeth McCall Callaway talks about learning to play basketball and her memories of playing on school teams in Catawba County and Charlotte, North Carolina. She played basketball starting in the seventh grade in Catawba County and played for fou...

Title: George McCachren oral history interview, 1992 October 16
Creator: McCachren, George, 1919-2008
Date Created: 1992-10-16
Subjects--Topical: Street-railroads, Young Men's Christian associations, Basketball, Youth league basketball, Camps, Swimming, Volleyball, Amusements
Description: George McCachren shares his experiences with the YMCA in Charlotte, North Carolina during the early and mid twentieth century, and discusses his brother's role as director of physical activity at the Charlotte YMCA. He talks about YMCA affiliated ...

Title: Herman Cunningham oral history interview, 1993 September 7
Creator: Cunningham, Herman, 1928-2018
Date Created: 1993-09-07
Subjects--Topical: Basketball, School sports, Basketball teams, Basketball--Tournaments, School sports--Social aspects, Segregation in education, Sports for women, Country life, School discipline
Description: Herman Cunningham recounts playing on the basketball team during the 1940s at Winchester High School, a segregated school for African Americans in Monroe, North Carolina. Mr. Cunningham describes how the school partially burned down in the 1930s a...

Title: Mildred Bauguess oral history interview, 1993 May 14
Creator: Bauguess, Mildred Little, 1932-2013
Date Created: 1993-05-14
Subjects--Topical: Basketball, Basketball for women, Women basketball players, Basketball players, Women athletes, School sports, Basketball stories, Basketball teams, Hosiery workers
Description: Mildred Little Bauguess discusses her basketball career at Claremont High School in Claremont, North Carolina and playing semi-professionally on the Hanes Hosiery Women's Basketball team during the 1940s and 1950s. She recalls the accolades, tourn...

Title: Newell Gymnasium group oral history interview, 1993 January 16
Creator: Austin, Ernest B., 1926-2014
Date Created: 1993-01-16
Subjects--Topical: Basketball, Basketball for women, Basketball for girls, Basketball--Social aspects, Rural schools, Country life, Gymnasiums, School sports, Depressions
Description: A group of former Newell High School students, including Ernest B. Austin, Lloyd Cochran, Russell G. Faulk, Francis Freeman, Vera Kimbrell, and several unnamed speakers, discuss the role basketball played in Newell, an unincorporated farming commu...

Title: Otis Skipper oral history interview, 1993 June 6
Creator: Skipper, Otis S. (Otis Sanford), 1917-2002
Date Created: 1993-01-06
Subjects--Topical: Basketball, Basketball teams, Young Men's Christian associations, Basketball--Tournaments, Basketball players, Sports--Social aspects, School sports, Basketball coaches, Basketball--Rules, Basketball stories, Depressions, Discrimination in sports
Description: Otis Skipper recounts his experiences playing basketball in Charlotte, North Carolina from the 1930s-1950s. He describes starting to play at the age of twelve at the YMCA, and discusses how the athletic director, Carl Link, was instrumental in org...

Title: Sister Mary Michel Boulus oral history interview, 1993 June 28
Creator: Boulus, Mary Michel, Sister, 1926-2012
Date Created: 1993-06-28
Subjects--Topical: Catholics--Education, Catholic schools, Catholic universities and colleges, Nuns as teachers, School integration, Basketball
Description: Sister Mary Michel Boulus recounts her life and her forty-five year career in Catholic education and administration. The daughter of Lebanese immigrants, Sister Boulus grew up in Concord and describes the challenges the Catholic community faced th...

Title: Titus Ivory Sr., Titus Ivory Jr., and Terrell Ivory oral history interview, 1993 March 24
Creator: Ivory, Titus Lovell, 1949-1998
Date Created: 1993-03-24
Subjects--Topical: Basketball, Streetball, African Americans--Segregation, Basketball--Coaching, College sports, College athletes, College athletes--Scholarships, fellowships, etc., African American athletes, African American families, African Americans--Education, Football, School sports
Description: Titus Lovell Ivory discusses his enthusiasm and participation in sports, both football and basketball. He describes his participation in sports since he was a child and recalls the various athletes he has encountered, from growing up playing stree...