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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: John L. Shadd oral history interview, 2004 May 1
Creator: Shadd, John L. (John Less), 1924-2014
Date Created: 2004-05-01
Subjects--Topical: Race relations, Civil rights, Civil rights movements, Political and social views, Racism
Description: John L. Shadd briefly shares his thoughts on race relations within the United States during the 1930s-1970s. He comments on Jim Crow laws; the impact of the Civil Rights Movement on the livelihoods of all Americans, but African Americans in partic...

Title: Leon Lowder oral history interview, 1999 March 6
Creator: Lowder, Leon, 1906-
Date Created: 1999-03-06
Subjects--Topical: Cotton growing, Country life, Farm life, Farm management, Farm management--Economic aspects, Family farms, Race relations, Political and social views
Description: Leon Lowder recounts his life, family, and work in retail and farming in central South Carolina from the 1930s-1980s. Mr. Lowder describes being the seventh out of eleven children in a farming family and leaving home in 1926 to work in the grocery...

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 ...