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Title: Virginia Case oral history interview, 1996 September 10
Creator: Case, Virginia, 1918-
Date Created: 1996-09-10
Subjects--Topical: Depressions, Country life, War--Economic aspects, Women in war, Race relations, Urban renewal
Description: Virginia Case discusses her family and life in Gastonia, North Carolina. Originally from Pickens County, South Carolina, she and her husband moved to Gastonia in the mid-1930s. Mrs. Case describes how difficult life was during the Great Depression...

Title: Tom Snipes oral history interview, 1993 February 25
Creator: Snipes, Walter Thomas, 1932-
Date Created: 1993-02-25
Subjects--Topical: College administrators, College teachers, Universities and colleges--Faculty, Universities and colleges--Curricula, Race relations
Description: Tom Snipes describes his early upbringing in Kannapolis and Raleigh, North Carolina in an autocratic, yet loving home run by his disciplinarian father. He recalls the challenges of growing up during the Depression in a large family with meager res...

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...

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: Thereasea Delerine Elder oral history interview 1, 1993 June 25
Creator: Elder, Thereasea D. Clark (Thereasea Delerine Clark), 1927-2021
Date Created: 1993-06-25
Subjects--Topical: African American nurses, Public health nursing, Health attitudes, Health and race, Discrimination in medical care, Teenage pregnancy, Children--Health and hygiene, Pollution--Health aspects, Voluntarism
Description: Thereasea Elder recounts her life and career as a public health nurse in Charlotte, North Carolina. Before going into public health, Mrs. Elder was a nurse at Good Samaritan Hospital, the region's only hospital for African Americans. She disc...

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: 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: 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: 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: Mary K. Pistole oral history interview, 1993 March 27
Creator: Pistole, Mary K., 1924-2001
Date Created: 1993-03-27
Subjects--Topical: Cities and towns--Growth, Presidents--Death, Women--Employment--Social aspects, Small business, Racism, School integration, Busing for school integration
Description: Mary Pistole recounts her life and experiences in Charlotte during the Great Depression, World War II, and the postwar era. Mrs. Pistole grew up in the Myers Park neighborhood and was an eighth grader at Alexander Graham Junior High School when th...

Title: Lucille Harwood oral history interview, 1994 October 8
Creator: Harwood, Lucille, 1921-
Date Created: 1994-10-08
Subjects--Topical: Depressions, Race relations, African Americans--Segregation
Description: Albemarle native Lucille Harwood recounts her experiences during the Great Depression, World War II, and the second half of the twentieth century. She describes growing up very poor during the Depression, but explains how families would always sha...

Title: Loy H. Witherspoon oral history interview 3, 1993 February 19
Creator: Witherspoon, Loy H., 1930-2017
Date Created: 1993-02-19
Subjects--Topical: Teacher-student relationships, Methodist Church--Clergy, Social change
Description: In this 1993 interview, student Mitch Miles interviewed Dr. Loy Witherspoon, founding chair of Religious Studies at UNC Charlotte, who relates his life story and reflects on changes that he witnessed in the American South between the 1930s and the...

Title: Loy H. Witherspoon oral history interview 2, 1991
Creator: Witherspoon, Loy H., 1930-2017
Date Created: 1991
Subjects--Topical: Orphanages, Civil rights movements, Depressions, Teacher-student relationships, Student movements, Methodist Church--Clergy
Description: In this 1991 interview, student Michael Wilson interviewed Dr. Loy Witherspoon about his life experiences in the North Carolina Piedmont. Dr. Witherspoon describes his unusual childhood, the latter part of which was spent at The Children's Home, a...

Title: Kathleen Crosby oral history interview, 2001 October 1
Creator: Crosby, Kathleen R. (Kathleen Ross), 1925-2012
Date Created: 2001-10-01
Subjects--Topical: Early childhood education, School management and organization, African American school principals, Early childhood education--Administration, Racism in education, Segregation in education, School integration, Busing for school integration, Race relations, Civil rights movements, Racism, Threats of violence
Description: Kathleen Crosby recounts her forty-year career as an educator in Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools (CMS), as well as her involvement in the civil rights movement in Charlotte. She describes the conditions for African Americans living under Jim Crow in...

Title: Jean Graham Ford oral history interview, 1996 June 6
Creator: Ford, Jean Graham, 1932-
Date Created: 1996-06-06
Subjects--Topical: Family farms, Christian life, Christianity, Families--Religious aspects--Christianity, Presbyterianism, Revivals, City and town life
Description: Jean Ford, sister of Reverend Billy Graham, describes her life growing up on the Graham Brothers Dairy Farm in Charlotte, North Carolina, including work and leisure activities. Ms. Ford talks about the important role religion played in her family'...

Title: Jack Boyte oral history interview, 1996 April 26
Creator: Boyte, Jack O., 1920-2005
Date Created: 1996-04-26
Subjects--Topical: Revivals, Evangelicalism, Religious gatherings, City and town life, Boy Scouts, Presbyterianism, Church fund raising
Description: Native Charlottean Jack Boyte shares his experiences with evangelical revivals in Charlotte, North Carolina. From his days of Boy Scout volunteerism, he discusses his exposure to and participation in the revivals of evangelist Mordecai Ham. He off...

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: 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: G. Jackson Burney oral history interview, 1997 September 4
Creator: Burney, G. Jackson, 1927-
Date Created: 1997-09-04
Subjects--Topical: Radio broadcasting, Music, Voluntarism, Race relations, Poliomyelitis, People with disabilities, Discrimination in employment
Description: Charlottean G. Jackson Burney discusses his career in the communications industry, his family, and his volunteer work. He contracted polio at a young age and discusses throughout the interview how the disease impacted his life. Mr. Burney describe...

Title: Frances Blanton oral history interview, 1992 November 24
Creator: Blanton, Frances B.
Date Created: 1992-11-24
Subjects--Topical: Social values, Country life, Manners and customs, Dating (Social customs), Homemakers
Description: Longtime Charlotte resident Frances Blanton discusses her family, and her childhood and adolescence. She describes visiting her grandparents on their farm in Cabarrus County, where they made their own butter, cream, and sausage. Mrs. Blanton began...

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