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Title: "Chatty" Hattie Leeper oral history interview 1, 2006 December 11
Creator: Leeper, Hattie, 1930-
Date Created: 2006-12-11
Subjects--Topical: African American neighborhoods, African American families, Segregation, Segregation in education, Race relations, Corporal punishment of children, Disc jockeys, Popular music radio stations, African American radio stations
Description: In the first of three interviews, radio DJ "Chatty" Hattie Leeper discusses her early life in the Third Ward and Brookhill neighborhoods in Charlotte, North Carolina. She describes her family and neighborhood, and her experiences attending the seg...

Title: "Chatty" Hattie Leeper oral history interview 3, 2007 January 19
Creator: Leeper, Hattie, 1930-
Date Created: 2007-01-19
Subjects--Topical: Disc jockeys, Popular music radio stations, African American radio stations, Radio broadcasting, Radio broadcasters, Radio audiences, Radio broadcasting--Social aspects, Race relations, Social integration, Musical groups, Voluntarism
Description: In the last of three interviews with Christina Wright, radio DJ "Chatty" Hattie Leeper discusses her career in radio and other professional pursuits in Charlotte, North Carolina, from the 1950s through the time of interview. She shares stories abo...

Title: 1967 Detroit riot cartoon
Creator: Payne, Eugene G., 1919-2010
Date Created: 1967-07-25
Subjects--Topical: Political cartoons, Politics and government--Caricatures and cartoons, Riots, Race riots, Civil rights, Race relations
Description: Topics include: 1967 Detroit riot; Race riots; Civil rights

Title: Alfred Alexander oral history interview, 2001 May 10
Creator: Alexander, Alfred L., 1952-
Date Created: 2001-05-10
Subjects--Topical: African Americans--Segregation, Civil rights movements, Segregation in education, School integration, Bombings, Busing for school integration, Discrimination in public accommodations, Group identity, Race relations
Description: Alfred Alexander describes his early life in Charlotte, North Carolina during the 1950s-1970s as the son of prominent civil rights pioneer Kelly Alexander Sr., a leader in the Charlotte and the North Carolina branches of the NAACP. As a child he l...

Title: Allegra Westbrooks oral history interview, 2007 March 12
Creator: Westbrooks, Allegra M. (Allegra Marea), 1921-
Date Created: 2007-03-12
Subjects--Topical: African Americans--Segregation, Urban renewal, African Americans and libraries, Public libraries, African American neighborhoods, African American families, Race relations
Description: Allegra Westbrooks recounts her thirty-six year career as head of library services at the segregated Brevard Street Library, located in the Brooklyn neighborhood of Charlotte, North Carolina, also known as Second Ward, and later in the Charlotte-M...

Title: Andy Baxter oral history interview, 1999 June 29
Creator: Baxter, Andy
Date Created: 1999-06-29
Subjects--Topical: Students, Public schools, School integration, Student government, Segregation in education, Race relations
Description: Andy Baxter talks about his experiences as a student at West Charlotte High School, where he was student council president in his senior year. Mr. Baxter reflects on his experiences with racial integration at the school, speaking at length about t...

Title: Banita Brown oral history interview, 2006 December 2
Creator: Brown, Banita W. (Banita White), 1960-
Date Created: 2006-12-02
Subjects--Topical: College teachers, Education, Women scientists, African American scientists, Science--Social aspects, Social integration, Race relations
Description: In her interview, Dr. Banita Brown, an associate chemistry professor at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte, reflects on her upbringing, education, and career. Dr. Brown recollects her formative years and early education in Rock Hill, So...

Title: Barbara Campbell oral history interview, 1998 November 13
Creator: Campbell, Barbara, 1943-
Date Created: 1998-11-13
Subjects--Topical: Girls' schools, Race relations, Racism, Foreign study, Political and social views, Managed care plans (Medical care), Abortion--Public opinion, Mass media--Influence, Recycling industry
Description: Longtime Charlotte resident Barbara Campbell discusses her life, career, and opinion on current political issues at the time of the interview. She talks about growing up in Long Island, New York, and attending an all girls' boarding school in Rhod...

Title: Benjamin Chavis Jr. oral history interview, 2005 February 7
Creator: Chavis, Ben, 1948-
Date Created: 2005-02-07
Subjects--Topical: African American college students, African American college students--Political activity, African American student movements, Chemistry, Civil rights, Civil rights movements, College integration, Race relations, Racism, Segregation, Student movements
Description: Dr. Benjamin Chavis recounts his involvement in the black student movement on the campus of the University of North Carolina at Charlotte during the late 1960s to the early 1970s, when he was one of a small but politically active cohort of African...

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: Black Women's Caucus and memoranda
Creator: Alexander, Kelly M.
Date Created: 1971, 1996
Subjects--Topical: African Americans, African Americans--Civil rights, Civil rights movements, Civil rights workers, African Americans--Housing, Racism--Political aspects, Race discrimination, Police brutality, Police misconduct, Race relations, Politics and government

Title: Bobbie Nell Earnhardt oral history interview 2, 2002 April 2
Creator: Earnhardt, Bobbie Nell, 1921-2003
Date Created: 2002-04-02
Subjects--Topical: Cities and towns, Cities and towns--Growth, Farms, Farm life, Police, Chain gangs, African Americans--Segregation, African Americans--Social conditions, Race relations, Alcohol trafficking, Prohibition, Bookkeeping
Description: Bobbie Nell Earnhardt was born on Graham St. in Charlotte, North Carolina; she discusses growing up in Charlotte in the 1930s and shares her family's stories. She tells about her mother working at the handkerchief factory, which turned into the Ol...

Title: Bonnie E. Cone oral history interview 19, 1988 April 5
Creator: Cone, Bonnie E., 1907-2003
Date Created: 1988-04-05
Subjects--Topical: Education, Higher, Education, Higher--Administration, Education, Higher--Finance, Community colleges, Women college presidents, Women community college presidents, Race relations
Description: In this fourteenth of a series of interviews conducted by Dr. Ed Perzel (former Chair of the Department of History and Associate Dean for the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences at UNC Charlotte), Bonnie Cone returns to the topics of the bond iss...

Title: Brett Gilbert oral history interview, 2006 October 26
Creator: Gilbert, Brett, 1941-
Date Created: 2006-10-26
Subjects--Topical: Race relations, Country life, Social values, Soldiers, Civil rights movements
Description: Brett Gilbert recounts his life and experiences in Lincoln County and in Charlotte, North Carolina. Growing up on a dairy farm in rural Lincoln County, Mr. Gilbert explains how most people were poor farmers and that with the exception of atomic bo...

Title: C. Vanessa Baxter oral history interview, 2004 December 21
Creator: Baxter, C. Vanessa, 1954-2007
Date Created: 2004-12-21
Subjects--Topical: African American students, Discrimination in education, Racism in education, Segregation in education, School integration, Race relations, School violence, Foreign study
Description: Vanessa Baxter describes her experiences as a student in Charlotte-Mecklenburg schools from 1959 through the early 1970s, focusing in particular on the impact of integration. Ms. Baxter describes attending an all-black elementary school, then movi...

Title: Charlotte Advisory School Committee
Creator: Alexander, Kelly M.
Date Created: 1961
Subjects--Topical: African Americans, African Americans--Civil rights, Civil rights movements, Civil rights workers, African Americans--Housing, Racism--Political aspects, Race discrimination, Police brutality, Police misconduct, Race relations, Politics and government

Title: Charlotte-Mecklenburg Charter Commission
Creator: Alexander, Kelly M.
Date Created: 1970
Subjects--Topical: African Americans, African Americans--Civil rights, Civil rights movements, Civil rights workers, African Americans--Housing, Racism--Political aspects, Race discrimination, Police brutality, Police misconduct, Race relations, Politics and government

Title: Charlotte-Mecklenburg Election Supervisory Committee
Creator: Alexander, Kelly M.
Date Created: 1996, 1998
Subjects--Topical: African Americans, African Americans--Civil rights, Civil rights movements, Civil rights workers, African Americans--Housing, Racism--Political aspects, Race discrimination, Police brutality, Police misconduct, Race relations, Politics and government

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: 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 ...

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