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Title: Bobby Jones oral history interview, 1993 March 8
Creator: Jones, Bobby, 1951-
Date Created: 1993-03-08
Subjects--Topical: Basketball, Basketball--Coaching, Professional sports, Sports--Religious aspects--Christianity, Sportsmanship, Christian life, Basketball players--Professional ethics, College sports, College athletes, Basketball fans
Description: Bobby Jones, a former professional player in the NBA, discusses how his faith in Christanity is directly tied to his basketball career. Topics discussed include how his early career in basketball developed his moral and spiritual values and how hi...

Title: Dean Colvard oral history interview 3, 1996 May 31
Creator: Colvard, Dean W., 1913-2007
Date Created: 1996-05-31
Subjects--Topical: Christian life, Religious gatherings, Revivals, Fund raising, Evangelicalism, Race relations--Religious aspects
Description: As the chairperson of the 1972 Billy Graham Crusade in Charlotte, North Carolina, Dr. Dean Colvard discusses his role in the planning and implementation of the religious event. He details the development of such a large crusade by thousands of vol...

Title: Don Williams oral history interview, 1993 October 22
Creator: Williams, Don, 1939-2004
Date Created: 1993-10-22
Subjects--Topical: Foundries, Flextime, Foundry workers, Plastic pipe industry, Mechanization, Pipe mills, Piping--Design and construction, Work environment
Description: In this interview, Don Williams recounts his twenty-five year career at Charlotte Pipe and Foundry and discusses his current position in the company's newly created Industrial Division. Hired in 1968, Mr. Williams discusses how he came to wor...

Title: Evelyn Van Hecke oral history interview, 1999 July 15
Creator: Van Hecke, Evelyn, 1958-
Date Created: 1999-07-15
Subjects--Topical: Art--Study and teaching, English language--Study and teaching--Foreign speakers, School integration, Race relations, Public schools, High school students, High school students--Societies and clubs
Description: Evelyn Van Hecke recounts her experience as an art teacher at West Charlotte High School in the 1980s and 1990s. Topics discussed include the role fine arts classes played in bringing students of all backgrounds together, her experiences working w...

Title: Judy Wilkins Rose oral history interview 1, 1993 May 19
Creator: Rose, Judy W. (Judy Wilkins)
Date Created: 1993-05-19
Subjects--Topical: College sports, College athletes, Women college athletes, Women coaches (Athletics), Sex discrimination against women, Sex role, Basketball, Basketball for women
Description: Judy Rose, the UNC Charlotte Athletics Director at the time of the interview, discusses her personal experiences and those of women athletes in their quest for parity in collegiate sports since Title IX. She reflects upon her early career as a gra...

Title: Julius L. Chambers oral history interview, 1997 October 24
Creator: Chambers, Julius L. (Julius LeVonne), 1936-2013
Date Created: 1997-10-24
Subjects--Topical: Segregation in education, Busing for school integration, Trials, litigation, etc., School integration, School integration--Public opinion, Civil rights, Political and social views
Description: Charlotte attorney Julius L. Chambers, who represented the plaintiffs in the landmark case, Swann v. Charlotte-Mecklenburg Board of Education, talks at length about the integration of schools in Charlotte and Mecklenburg County during the late 196...

Title: Patsy Bolin oral history interview, 1992 October 15
Creator: Bolin, Patsy N., 1941-2012
Date Created: 1992-10-15
Subjects--Topical: Young Men's Christian associations, Cities and towns--Growth, Clubs, African Americans--Segregation
Description: Patsy Bolin recounts working as a bookkeeper at the YMCA in Belmont, North Carolina beginning in 1960. Ms. Bolin describes how the YMCA during that time was only open to white men and how she and other female employees could not enter the health c...

Title: Thomas L. Bryant and John Costner oral history interview, 1993 September 29
Creator: Bryant, Thomas L. (Thomas Leroy), 1950-
Date Created: 1993-09-29
Subjects--Topical: Basketball, Basketball players, School sports, Basketball--Coaching, School integration, School integration--Social aspects, Race relations, Basketball--Tournaments
Description: Thomas L. "Tommy" Bryant and John Costner share their experiences playing on the Ashley High School basketball team in Gastonia, North Carolina in 1967, during the first year of integration at the school. John Costner, a Black student, transferred...