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Annie Diggs oral history interview, 2001 October 30
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Creator
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Diggs, Annie Mae, 1926-2008
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Date Created
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2001-10-30
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Subjects--Topical
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Rural families, Country life, African American families, Family farms, Chores, Gardening, Community gardens, Vegetable gardening, Cooking, American
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Description
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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...
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Carrie Gaddy oral history interview, 2001 October 29
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Creator
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Gaddy, Carrie H., 1930-
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Date Created
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2001-10-29
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Subjects--Topical
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Country life, Rural families, African American families, Family farms, Gardening, Vegetable gardening, Community gardens, Gardening--Social aspects, Cotton, Canning and preserving, Almanacs, American
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Description
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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 ...
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Cultivating Common Ground
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Creator
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Blotnick, June
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Date Created
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2001
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Subjects--Topical
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Gardening, Community gardens, African American families
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Description
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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...
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Daisy Dunlap oral history interview, 2001 October 27
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Creator
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Dunlap, Daisy, 1934-
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Date Created
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2001-10-27
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Subjects--Topical
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Gardening, Community gardens, African Americans--Segregation, Country life, African American families, Family farms, Race relations, Vegetable gardening, Segregation in education
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Description
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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...
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Donna McGee oral history interview, 2001 October 27
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Creator
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McGee, Donna, 1942-2014
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Date Created
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2001-10-27
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Subjects--Topical
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Families, African American families, Amusements, Gardening, Community gardens, Vegetable gardening, African Americans--Segregation
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Description
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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...
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Hassie W. Ervin oral history interview, 2002 January 10
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Creator
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Ervin, Hassie W., 1924-2007
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Date Created
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2002-01-10
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Subjects--Topical
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Rural families, African American families, Family farms, Vegetable gardening, Gardening, African Americans--Segregation, Community gardens, Tomatoes, Almanacs, American
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Description
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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...
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Isaiah Smith oral history interview, 2001 November 3
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Creator
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Smith, Isaiah, 1933-2012
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Date Created
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2001-11-03
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Subjects--Topical
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African American families, Families, Gardening, Community gardens, African Americans--Segregation, Race relations, Race discrimination, Almanacs, Fertilizers, Greenhouse gardening, Vegetable gardening
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Description
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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 ...
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Katie Grier oral history interview, 2001 October 27
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Creator
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Grier, Katie, 1925-2010
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Date Created
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2001-10-27
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Subjects--Topical
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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
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Description
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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...
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Katie McGill oral history interview, 2001 November 1
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Creator
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McGill, Katie Ementrice
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Date Created
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2001-11-01
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Subjects--Topical
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Rural families, Country life, African American families, Gardening, Dairy farms, Dairy workers, Family farms, School integration, African Americans--Segregation, Community gardens
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Description
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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...
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Louise and Zechariah Alexander, Sr. and family
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Date Created
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1931
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Subjects--Topical
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African American families, Civil rights workers
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Description
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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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Mary E. Nash oral history interview, 2001 November 3
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Creator
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Nash, Mary Ellen, 1931-2014
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Date Created
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2001-11-03
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Subjects--Topical
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Rural families, Country life, African American families, Gardening, Family farms, Farms, Small, Neighborhoods--Social aspects, Family reunions
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Description
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Mary Nash recounts her childhood in rural Mecklenburg County, North Carolina and her thirty-two years living in the Wilmore neighborhood of Charlotte. Mrs. Nash describes going up on her family's small farm and discusses the various things her par...
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Taylor and Richardson families album
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Date Created
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1876, 1953
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Subjects--Topical
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African American families, African American politicians, African Americans--Social life and customs, Freedmen
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Description
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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...
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Willie Coleman oral history interview, 2001 November 1
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Creator
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Coleman, Willie S., 1924-2018
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Date Created
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2001-11-01
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Subjects--Topical
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Rural families, Country life, African American families, Depressions, Community gardens, Cotton growing, Gardening, Vegetable gardening, Canning and preserving, Cooking, American, Folklore
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Description
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Willie Coleman recounts her lifelong involvement with gardening and her memories of her family. She discusses growing up in Matthews, North Carolina, attending school in Steele Creek, living through the Great Depression as a child, and working at ...