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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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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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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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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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Jessie Cherry oral history interview, 1979 May 25
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Creator
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Cherry, Jessie, 1915-
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Date Created
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1979-05-25
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Subjects--Topical
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Country life, Family farms, African American families
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Description
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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...
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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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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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Naomi White-Hewitt oral history interview, 2002 November 1
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Creator
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White-Hewitt, Naomi
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Date Created
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2002-11-01
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Subjects--Topical
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African American families, African Americans--Segregation, Busing for school integration, Land use, Rural, Race relations, Race discrimination, Racism, Family farms, Camp meetings, Teachers, Deeds, Water--Pollution
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Description
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Naomi White-Hewitt discusses her family's history in Catawba County, North Carolina and her experiences as an African American woman living in a primarily white, rural community. Mrs. White-Hewitt talks about camp meetings, race relations in the a...
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Pauline Cox oral history interview, 2002 January 23
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Creator
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Cox, Pauline L.
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Date Created
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2002-01-23
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Subjects--Topical
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Rural families, Country life, African American families, Family farms, African Americans--Segregation, Community gardens, Gardening, Vegetable gardening, Canning and preserving
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Description
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Pauline Cox describes growing up on a farm in rural Anson County, North Carolina, living in the Wilmore community in Charlotte, North Carolina for the past thirty-two years, and gardening at the Wilmore Community Garden. Ms. Cox describes chores s...