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Title: Allow me!
Creator: Payne, Eugene G., 1919-2010
Date Created: 1970-08-18
Subjects--Topical: Political cartoons, Politics and government--Caricatures and cartoons, Expenditures, Public, School integration
Description: Topics include: School desegregation; Richard Nixon; Southern United States; School funding

Title: Also concerned
Creator: Payne, Eugene G., 1919-2010
Date Created: 1970-05-29
Subjects--Topical: Political cartoons, Politics and government--Caricatures and cartoons, School elections, School boards, School integration, Busing for school integration
Description: Topics include: School integration; School desegregation; Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools Board of Education; Elections

Title: Andrew P. Haywood oral history interview 3, 1997 November 4
Creator: Haywood, Andrew Perry, 1933-2006
Date Created: 1997-11-04
Subjects--Topical: High schools--Administration, High school principals, School integration, Race relations in school management, Teacher-student relationships
Description: Dr. Andrew "Sam" Haywood discusses his role as principal of Independence and West Charlotte High Schools and as chairman of county high school principals during the turbulent years of desegregation. He describes the benefits of desegregation and r...

Title: Anne Batten oral history interview, 1993 July 26
Creator: Batten, Anne, 1914-2006
Date Created: 1993-07-26
Subjects--Topical: City and town life, High school teaching, History--Study and teaching, History--Societies, etc., School integration
Description: Anne Batten discusses growing up in the Dilworth community in Charlotte, North Carolina, her career as a teacher, and the role she played in historic preservation in Mecklenburg County. Subjects include teaching English, French, and history in rur...

Title: Barbara Ledford oral history interview, 1999 July 17
Creator: Ledford, Barbara, 1940-
Date Created: 1999-07-17
Subjects--Topical: Public schools, School integration, Multicultural education, English language--Study and teaching--Foreign speakers, Students, School management and organization
Description: Barbara Ledford describes her experiences as a teacher and administrator within the Charlotte-Mecklenburg school system, where she was employed in several schools including East Charlotte High School, Northeast Junior High School, and West Charlot...

Title: C. Morgan Edwards oral history interview 2, 2015 April 12
Creator: Edwards, C. Morgan (Calvin Morgan), 1938-
Date Created: 2015-04-12
Subjects--Topical: African American neighborhoods, Transportation, Business enterprises, Black, Segregation, School integration, Urban renewal, African American photographers
Description: Mr. C. Morgan Edwards discusses his life and upbringing in the Washington Heights neighborhood in Charlotte, North Carolina. Born and raised in the community and currently a resident, he recalls how during his youth the community was a mixed incom...

Title: Calvin and Naomi Davis oral history interview, 2004 November 23
Creator: Davis, Calvin C., 1925-2007
Date Created: 2004-11-23
Subjects--Topical: Education--Parent participation, Educational tests and measurements, African American teachers, School discipline, Segregation in education, School integration, Students--Academic workload, Students--Attitudes
Description: Calvin and Naomi Davis describe their experiences as students, teachers, parents, and grandparents in the Charlotte-Mecklenburg school system, and reflect on the significant changes in education during their lifetimes. They discuss both the challe...

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: Carrie Graves oral history interview, 2005 April 20
Creator: Graves, Carrie, 1936-
Date Created: 2005-04-20
Subjects--Topical: Classroom environment, Segregation in education, School integration, Busing for school integration, Racism, Education, Home economics--Study and teaching, School discipline
Description: Carrie Graves describes her experience growing up in Cherry, a predominantly African American neighborhood in Charlotte, North Carolina, and her education at the segregated Morgan Elementary School and Second Ward High School during the 1940s thro...

Title: Charles McCullough oral history interview, 1993 August 30
Creator: McCullough, Charles, 1932 or 1933-2017
Date Created: 1993-08-30
Subjects--Topical: School sports, Track and field, Basketball, School sports--Coaching, Basketball coaches, Basketball--Coaching, Basketball--Tournaments, Basketball players, School integration, Basketball for girls, Basketball for women
Description: Charles McCullough discusses his experiences playing high school and college sports, and his career as athletics coach at West Charlotte High School beginning in the 1960s. He attended West Charlotte High School as well as coaching there as an adu...

Title: Charlotte Mecklenburg Schools cartoon
Creator: Payne, Eugene G., 1919-2010
Date Created: 1970-08-26
Subjects--Topical: Political cartoons, Politics and government--Caricatures and cartoons, Segregation in education, School integration
Description: Topics include: Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools; School integration; School desegregation

Title: Concerned Parents Association cartoon
Creator: Payne, Eugene G., 1919-2010
Date Created: 1970-05-01
Subjects--Topical: Political cartoons, Politics and government--Caricatures and cartoons, School elections, School boards, School integration, Busing for school integration
Description: Topics include: Concerned Parents Association (Charlotte, N.C.); Busing for school integration; Political campaigns; Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools Board of Education

Title: Daisy Shipp oral history interview, 2004 March 24
Creator: Shipp, Daisy, 1944-
Date Created: 2004-03-24
Subjects--Topical: African American business enterprises, Nurses, School integration, Discrimination in education, Discrimination in employment, Racism, Urban renewal, Racism in medicine
Description: Gastonia, North Carolina native Daisy Shipp recounts her experiences as a nurse in the Charlotte region during the 1970s when the medical field in Charlotte was beginning to integrate. She discusses the training process of becoming a nurse as well...

Title: David Ruch oral history interview, 2017 November 20
Creator: Ruch, David (Life coach)
Date Created: 2017-11-20
Subjects--Topical: Counseling, Personal coaching, Homelessness, Church, Community development, School integration, Gentrification, African American neighborhoods
Description: David Ruch served as a board adviser for the Optimist Park Community Association in 2017. Raised in South Bend, Indiana, Mr. Ruch details his experience in integrated public schools, his move to Charlotte in the early 2000s, and how his faith and ...

Title: Dorothy B. Dae oral history interview, 2004 October 11
Creator: Dae, Dorothy, 1951-
Date Created: 2004-10-11
Subjects--Topical: African American college students, African American student movements, Cheerleading, Civil rights, College integration, College sports, School integration, Student unions, Universities and colleges--Social aspects
Description: Dorothy Dae recounts her experiences as one of a small group of African American students that attended the University of North Carolina at Charlotte during the late 1960s to the early 1970s. She discusses the struggle the students had with the St...

Title: Dorothy Counts-Scoggins oral history interview 2, 2006 December 10
Creator: Counts-Scoggins, Dorothy, 1942-
Date Created: 2006-12-10
Subjects--Topical: Busing for school integration, Civil rights movements, African American neighborhoods, School integration, Racism in education, De facto school segregation, African Americans--Education (Secondary), African Americans--Civil rights, African American families
Description: Dorothy Counts-Scoggins recounts her experience growing up in the Biddleville community in the 1950s, including being the first African American student to integrate Harding High School in Charlotte, North Carolina. She discusses her four days at ...

Title: Dorothy Counts-Scoggins oral history interview 3, 1996 January 20
Creator: Counts-Scoggins, Dorothy, 1942-
Date Created: 1996-01-20
Subjects--Topical: Busing for school integration, Civil rights movements, School integration, Racism in education, De facto school segregation, African Americans--Education (Secondary), African Americans--Civil rights, African American families
Description: Dorothy Counts-Scoggins recounts being the first African American student to integrate Harding High School in Charlotte, North Carolina at the age of fifteen. Topics discussed include the remainder of her secondary education, Charlotte busing and ...

Title: Elizabeth Randolph oral history interview 1, 1993 June 16
Creator: Randolph, Elizabeth S.
Date Created: 1993-06-16
Subjects--Topical: African American elementary schools, African Americans--Segregation, Education, Racism in education, School integration, Segregation, Segregation in education, Busing for school integration, Manners and customs, Depressions
Description: In this first interview with Jennifer Greeson for the Levine Museum, Elizabeth Randolph describes growing up during the 1920s and 1930s in a family that emphasized education which inspired her dedication as an educator throughout her life in such ...

Title: Ellie Perzel oral history interview 1, 2023 March 8
Creator: Perzel, Ellie
Date Created: 2023-03-08
Subjects--Topical: French language--Study and teaching, School integration, Radio broadcasting, Radio stations, Nonprofit organizations, AIDS (Disease)
Description: Ellie Perzel discusses her experiences working in the Charlotte area as a French and Spanish teacher, a news reporter at Charlotte's NPR station WFAE Radio, and a grant writer for the Regional HIV/AIDS Consortium. Topics discussed include the...

Title: Freddie and Christine Sanders oral history interview, 2005 February 1
Creator: Sanders, Freddie, 1931-
Date Created: 2005-02-01
Subjects--Topical: African American neighborhoods, African Americans--Segregation, Segregation in education, School integration, Teachers, Busing for school integration, Student activities, Students--Social life and customs
Description: Freddie and Christine Sanders reflect on what it was like to be students at the all-black Second Ward High School in Charlotte's Brooklyn neighborhood during segregation in the 1940s and early 1950s. They describe school dances, football game...

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