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Title: Cherry neighborhood group oral history interview with Doris Gibson Dennis, Ruthie Grier Hamlin, Charles L. Patton, Everett Taylor and Richard Perry, 2014 August 16
Creator: Dennis, Doris G. (Doris Gibson), 1944-
Date Created: 2014-08-06
Subjects--Topical: Drowning, Segregation, Rivers
Description: Five men and women describe growing up in the Cherry community in Charlotte, North Carolina during the 1940s and 1950s. They recount their adventures with the creeks and their experiences with new technologies such as refrigerators and televisions...

Title: Elizabeth Samuel Weinstein oral history interview 1, 2004 April 8
Creator: Weinstein, Elizabeth Samuel, 1935-
Date Created: 2004-04-08
Subjects--Topical: African American families, African American neighborhoods, African American elementary schools, African American school children, Segregation, Parents' and teachers' associations, Parent-teacher relationships, Rural schools
Description: In this first interview, Elizabeth Weinstein recounts her childhood growing up in Derita (now a neighborhood in Charlotte) North Carolina and attending Rockwell Rosenwald School during the 1940s. Topics discussed include her family's background; h...

Title: Elizabeth Samuel Weinstein oral history interview 2, 2004 April 9
Creator: Weinstein, Elizabeth Samuel, 1935-
Date Created: 2004-04-09
Subjects--Topical: African American families, African American neighborhoods, African American schools, Segregation, Race relations, Racism, Rural schools, Teachers--Training of, Teacher-principal relationships, Elementary school principals
Description: In this second interview, Elizabeth Weinstein discusses her childhood growing up in Derita (now a neighborhood in Charlotte), North Carolina and her career as an educator in New York City. She describes how it was her mother and her Christian upbr...

Title: Grier Heights group oral history interview with Hawthorne Broadway, L.C. Clifton, Willie Davis, Marvin Price, and Porgie Wallace, 2014 September 1
Creator: Broadway, Hawthorn, 1937-
Date Created: 2014-09-01
Subjects--Topical: Fishing, Floods, Segregation, Swimming, Swimming pools, Rivers
Description: Five men, who grew up in the Grier Heights neighborhood in Charlotte, North Carolina during the 1940s and 1950s recall swimming in the local creeks. and specifically in a place that they called the "Big Boy Hole," on Briar Creek behind the Mint Mu...