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Title: Daisy Stroud oral history interview 1, June 20, 2001
Creator: Stroud, Daisy S., 1921-
Date Created: 2001-06-20
Subjects--Topical: African American neighborhoods, African Americans--Segregation, Segregation in education, School integration, School integration--Public opinion, Race relations, Education, Civil rights movements, Civil rights demonstrations
Description: Daisy Spears Stroud, a native of Charlotte, recounts her experiences growing up in the First Ward neighborhood and her career in the Charlotte-Mecklenburg school system before and during desegregation in the 1950s-1970s. She describes her experien...

Title: Gerson L. Stroud oral history interview, 2001 June 20
Creator: Stroud, Gerson L., 1919-2006
Date Created: 2001-06-20
Subjects--Topical: Race relations, Segregation, African Americans--Education, School integration, Busing for school integration, African American school principals, Public school--Administration, African American soldiers--Social conditions
Description: Gerson L. Stroud recounts his experiences as a lifelong resident of Charlotte as well as his thirty-one year career with the Charlotte-Mecklenburg school system where, as principal of West Charlotte High School, he oversaw that school's racial int...

Title: J. David Stratton oral history interview, 2003 May 28
Creator: Stratton, J. David (James David), 1913-2009
Date Created: 2003-05-28
Subjects--Topical: Ophthalmologists, Aviation medicine, Physicians--Societies, etc., Health systems agencies, Race relations, Regionalism
Description: Dr. J. David Stratton, a long-practicing ophthalmologist and former president of the Mecklenburg County Medical Society (MCMS), reflects on his career and the evolution of Charlotte's medical community through the second half of the twentieth cent...

Title: Price Davis oral history interview 1, 2004 May 25
Creator: Davis, Price, 1920-
Date Created: 2004-05-25
Subjects--Topical: African American schools, African American teachers, Segregation in education, Race relations, Race discrimination, Racism, Police brutality, African Americans--Segregation, African Americans--Social conditions, Civil rights movements, Political and social views
Description: Charlotte, North Carolina native Price Davis shares his experiences of growing up and living in Charlotte during segregation. Mr. Davis talks about attending Morgan School and Second Ward High School in the Brooklyn neighborhood in Charlotte, and ...