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Title: Carol Newman oral history interview 2, 2006 February 23
Creator: Newman, Carol, 1946-2007
Date Created: 2006-02-23
Subjects--Topical: Open plan schools, Student-centered learning, Teachers, Experiential learning, Teachers--In-service training, Magnet schools, Federal aid to education, School integration
Description: In this second interview, Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools (CMS) administrator Carol Newman continues to discuss the successes and challenges of the city's open schools program, but also focuses on the emergence and significance of magnet school...

Title: Mildred Wright oral history interview 2, 2006 February 22
Creator: Wright, Mildred, 1933-
Date Created: 2006-02-22
Subjects--Topical: Open plan schools, Education, Elementary, Child development, School management and organization, Educational tests and measurements, Educational assessment, Magnet schools, Educational leadership, De facto school segregation
Description: In this last of three interviews with Mildred Wright, Ms. Wright discusses her career in education, particularly her role as principal at Coulwood Middle School and Thomasboro School in Charlotte, North Carolina. Ms. Wright explains how the approa...

Title: Betty Seizinger oral history interview, 1999 June 22
Creator: Seizinger, Betty, 1931-2004
Date Created: 1999-06-22
Subjects--Topical: School integration, School integration--Public opinion, Discrimination in education, De facto school segregation, Teachers, Magnet schools, Busing for school integration, Race relations
Description: Betty Seizinger discusses the history of West Charlotte High School and shares her experiences as a teacher there during the 1980s. Ms. Seizinger describes West Charlotte's challenges and successes in integrating staff and students during the...

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: YWCA, Winston-Salem
Creator: Gantt, Harvey B. (Harvey Bernard), 1943-
Date Created: 1996-10-18
Subjects--Topical: Political campaigns, Politics and government, African Americans--Politics and government, Absentee fathers, Absentee mothers, Respect, Tax deductions, Education, Education, Higher, Student loans, Education and state, Dropouts, Juvenile delinquency, Pensions--Law and legislation, Same-sex marriage, Public welfare, Magnet schools
Description: Harvey Gantt gives a speech to children and adults at the YWCA in Winston-Salem. Gantt praises the YWCA, then discusses his platform, inlcuding: new ideas for working class families; communicating with children; how he grew up with four sisters an...

Title: Chris Folk oral history interview 2, 1996 September 16
Creator: Folk, Chris Evans, 1930-2010
Date Created: 1996-09-16
Subjects--Topical: School integration, Busing for school integration, Magnet schools, Civil rights, Discrimination in education, Families--Education, Race relations
Description: Dr. Chris Folk, former associate superintendent and longtime employee of the Charlotte-Mecklenburg school system, discusses his life and work as an educator. After reflecting on his early experiences as the son of a textile mill superintendent in ...