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Title: Annie Diggs oral history interview, 2001 October 30
Creator: Diggs, Annie Mae, 1926-2008
Date Created: 2001-10-30
Subjects--Topical: Rural families, Country life, African American families, Family farms, Chores, Gardening, Community gardens, Vegetable gardening, Cooking, American
Description: Annie Mae Diggs recalls growing up in the country in Mecklenburg County, North Carolina, helping to found the Wilmore Community Garden in the Wilmore neighborhood of Charlotte, North Carolina, and her relationship with gardening. She discusses cho...

Title: Arthur Williams oral history interview, 2007 March 30
Creator: Williams, Arthur, 1931-
Date Created: 2007-03-30
Subjects--Topical: African Americans--Segregation, African American business enterprises, African American churches, African American families, African American schools, Barbershops, Urban renewal, Amusements
Description: Arthur Williams shares his memories of growing up in the Brooklyn neighborhood in Charlotte, North Carolina, also known as Second Ward. He discusses residents and small businesses in Brooklyn, including his uncle's barbershop, N.G. Edwards Barber,...

Title: Carrie Gaddy oral history interview, 2001 October 29
Creator: Gaddy, Carrie H., 1930-
Date Created: 2001-10-29
Subjects--Topical: Country life, Rural families, African American families, Family farms, Gardening, Vegetable gardening, Community gardens, Gardening--Social aspects, Cotton, Canning and preserving, Almanacs, American
Description: Carrie Gaddy recounts growing up in rural Union County, North Carolina, living in the Wilmore neighborhood of Charlotte, North Carolina beginning in 1970, and gardening throughout her life. She describes life growing up with her family, attending ...

Title: Cultivating Common Ground
Creator: Blotnick, June
Date Created: 2001
Subjects--Topical: Gardening, Community gardens, African American families
Description: For the Cultivating Common Ground project, middle and high school youth from the Wilmore neighborhood in Charlotte, NC interviewed the senior citizens who work in their neighborhood's community garden. The teens documented the seniors' life storie...

Title: Cynthia Roddey oral history interview, 2004 May 17
Creator: Roddey, Cynthia P. (Cynthia Plair)
Date Created: 2004-05-17
Subjects--Topical: African Americans--Education, African American families, Middle class African Americans, African American schools, Teachers, Segregation in education, Civil rights movements, Race relations, School integration, Social values
Description: Dr. Cynthia Roddey describes her education in Rock Hill, South Carolina and Charlotte, North Carolina and her experiences as a teacher after graduation. She attended segregated schools during the 1950s, including Biddleville Elementary and Immanue...

Title: Daisy Dunlap oral history interview, 2001 October 27
Creator: Dunlap, Daisy, 1934-
Date Created: 2001-10-27
Subjects--Topical: Gardening, Community gardens, African Americans--Segregation, Country life, African American families, Family farms, Race relations, Vegetable gardening, Segregation in education
Description: Daisy Mae Dunlap discusses how gardening influenced her life while growing up in York, South Carolina and later, living in the Wilmore neighborhood of Charlotte, North Carolina. Ms. Dunlap describes how her family wasn't that negatively affected b...

Title: Dianne Wyche oral history interview, 2007 April 28
Creator: Wyche, F. Dianne (Fannye Dianne), 1945-
Date Created: 2007-04-28
Subjects--Topical: African Americans--Segregation, African American physicians, Race relations, Urban renewal, Youth--Societies and clubs, African Americans--Housing, Medical care, African American families, Middle class African Americans
Description: Dianne Wyche shares her memories of the Brooklyn neighborhood of Charlotte, North Carolina also known as Second Ward. She recalls her father Dr. Rudolph Wyche and his medical practice in Brooklyn, including the types of surgeries he would perform,...

Title: Donna McGee oral history interview, 2001 October 27
Creator: McGee, Donna, 1942-2014
Date Created: 2001-10-27
Subjects--Topical: Families, African American families, Amusements, Gardening, Community gardens, Vegetable gardening, African Americans--Segregation
Description: Native Charlottean Donna Anthony McGee recalls growing up in the Brooklyn neighborhood of Charlotte, North Carolina, also known as Second Ward. She describes her childhood, including walking to school and playing stickball. A resident of the Wilmo...

Title: Dorothy Counts-Scoggins oral history interview 3, 1996 January 20
Creator: Counts-Scoggins, Dorothy, 1942-
Date Created: 1996-01-20
Subjects--Topical: Busing for school integration, Civil rights movements, School integration, Racism in education, De facto school segregation, African Americans--Education (Secondary), African Americans--Civil rights, African American families
Description: Dorothy Counts-Scoggins recounts being the first African American student to integrate Harding High School in Charlotte, North Carolina at the age of fifteen. Topics discussed include the remainder of her secondary education, Charlotte busing and ...

Title: Elaine Lynch oral history interview, 2004 April 27
Creator: Lynch, Elaine, 1942-
Date Created: 2004-04-27
Subjects--Topical: Teachers, African American schools, African American families, African American churches, Segregation, Segregation in education, African Americans--Social conditions, Race relations, School integration, Civil rights movements
Description: Elaine Lynch discusses her home and family life while growing up in Charlotte, North Carolina during the 1940s and 1950s. She recounts attending York Road High School and other segregated schools; interactions with white children; spending summers...

Title: Elizabeth Sadler oral history interview, 2004 April 24
Creator: Sadler, Elizabeth H. (Elizabeth Houston), 1917-2008
Date Created: 2004-04-24
Subjects--Topical: African American families, African American churches, Community organization, Farm life, Country life, Manners and customs
Description: Elizabeth Sadler recounts her early life growing up on her family's farm in the small, rural section of northwestern Mecklenburg County known as Shuffletown during the 1920s-1940s. She shares memories of her mother cooking Sunday dinner and long d...

Title: Hassie W. Ervin oral history interview, 2002 January 10
Creator: Ervin, Hassie W., 1924-2007
Date Created: 2002-01-10
Subjects--Topical: Rural families, African American families, Family farms, Vegetable gardening, Gardening, African Americans--Segregation, Community gardens, Tomatoes, Almanacs, American
Description: Hassie Ervin recounts growing up on her family's farm in Greenwood, South Carolina during the 1920s-1930s, moving to Charlotte, North Carolina, and living in the Wilmore neighborhood in Charlotte as an older adult. She describes her childhood, how...

Title: Isaiah Smith oral history interview, 2001 November 3
Creator: Smith, Isaiah, 1933-2012
Date Created: 2001-11-03
Subjects--Topical: African American families, Families, Gardening, Community gardens, African Americans--Segregation, Race relations, Race discrimination, Almanacs, Fertilizers, Greenhouse gardening, Vegetable gardening
Description: Isaiah Smith describes his experience as a recreational gardener at Wilmore Community Garden located in Charlotte, North Carolina starting in the early 1990s. He shares tips on how to cultivate a proper garden, his favorite vegetables and ways to ...

Title: James Gaither oral history interview, 2004 February 24
Creator: Gaither, James Israel, 1936-
Date Created: 2004-02-24
Subjects--Topical: Segregation in education, African Americans--Segregation, African Americans--Social conditions, African American schools, African American families, Farm life, Education, Rural, Race relations
Description: James Gaither discusses growing up in the rural Hemphill Heights community in Charlotte, North Carolina and his education at Rockwell Rosenwald School. He recounts living in a farming household that produced their own butter and grew much of their...

Title: Jessie Cherry oral history interview, 1979 May 25
Creator: Cherry, Jessie, 1915-
Date Created: 1979-05-25
Subjects--Topical: Country life, Family farms, African American families
Description: Jessie Cherry shares details of her family life living and working on a farm before moving to Charlotte in the late 1930s. She discusses her first time trying to slaughter a chicken, her mother's garden, and variety stores in downtown Charlotte du...

Title: Katie Grier oral history interview, 2001 October 27
Creator: Grier, Katie, 1925-2010
Date Created: 2001-10-27
Subjects--Topical: Rural families, African American families, Country life, Gardening, Vegetable gardening, Community gardens, Depressions, Canning and preserving, Race relations, African Americans--Segregation, Race discrimination, School integration, Family farms, Domestic animals
Description: Katie Grier shares information about growing up in Mecklenburg County, North Carolina, living in the Wilmore neighborhood in Charlotte, North Carolina for over thirty years, and her involvement with gardening throughout her life. She describes her...

Title: Katie McGill oral history interview, 2001 November 1
Creator: McGill, Katie Ementrice
Date Created: 2001-11-01
Subjects--Topical: Rural families, Country life, African American families, Gardening, Dairy farms, Dairy workers, Family farms, School integration, African Americans--Segregation, Community gardens
Description: Katie McGill discusses her childhood growing up in rural Mint Hill, North Carolina and her involvement in the Wilmore Community Garden. Mrs. McGill was raised by her grandparents Samuel and Ester Stafford, and explained that her entire family work...

Title: Kelly Alexander with sons Alfred (2 years) and Kelly Jr. (6 years)
Date Created: 1955
Subjects--Topical: African American families, Civil rights workers

Title: Kelly and Margaret Alexander
Date Created: 1945, 1950
Subjects--Topical: African American families, Civil rights workers

Title: Louise and Zechariah Alexander, Sr. and family
Date Created: 1931
Subjects--Topical: African American families, Civil rights workers
Description: Kelly (in front of woman in center), Fred (left), Zechariah Jr. (2nd left), Louise (front, second left), and Zechariah, Sr. (back, right), Charlotte (?)

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