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Title: Chris Folk oral history interview 1, 1997 October 16
Creator: Folk, Chris Evans, 1930-2010
Date Created: 1997-10-16
Subjects--Topical: Busing for school integration, De facto school segregation, Magnet schools, Race relations, School districts--Planning, School enrollment, School integration, School management and organization, Segregation in education, Trials, litigation, etc.
Description: In this 1997 interview, Dr. Chris Folk, former associate superintendent of Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools, recounts the school system's history of desegregation in light of the filing of Capacchione v. Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools earlier that yea...

Title: James E. Ferguson II oral history interview, 2001 November 28
Creator: Ferguson, James E. (James Elliott), 1942-
Date Created: 2001-11-28
Subjects--Topical: African American lawyers, Trials, litigation, etc., Racism, Race relations, Civil rights movements, Segregation in education, School integration, Busing for school integration
Description: James Ferguson, a partner at the first integrated law firm in North Carolina, recounts his life's work fighting for civil rights in the state. His involvement with social justice began when he was still in high school, where he helped found the As...

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...