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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...

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: Simmons Jones oral history interview, 1993 February 28
Creator: Jones, Simmons, 1920-
Date Created: 1993-02-28
Subjects--Topical: Social classes, Race relations, Race discrimination, Segregation, Religion, Sexual ethics, Homosexuality, Families--Social life and customs
Description: Fashion photographer and author Simmons Baker Jones discusses his eventful life, beginning with his formative years growing up in a prominent Charlotte family and continuing through his service as a corporal in the U.S. Army during the Second Worl...

Title: Miriam Bates oral history interview, 2006 November 18
Creator: Bates, Miriam, 1926-
Date Created: 2006-11-18
Subjects--Topical: Segregation, Segregation in education, Civil rights movements, African American neighborhoods, African American Greek letter societies, Presbyterian Church, Education, Urban renewal
Description: Miriam Bates recounts her life growing up in Charlotte, her college experience at Hampton University in Virginia, and her return to Charlotte in 1978. Mrs. Bates recalls growing up in the Biddleville neighborhood in Charlotte, where she lived thro...

Title: Price Davis oral history interview 3, 2006 November 18
Creator: Davis, Price, 1920-
Date Created: 2006-11-18
Subjects--Topical: African Americans--Education, African Americans--Social conditions, Police brutality, Segregation, Segregation in education
Description: Price Davis recounts his early life in segregated Charlotte, North Carolina. He shares his memories of living in the predominantly white township of Providence in Mecklenburg County as well as his experiences of growing up in Cherry, one of Charlo...

Title: Mary Lou Clarke oral history interview, 2001 May 11
Creator: Clarke, Mary Lou, 1932-2006
Date Created: 2001-05-11
Subjects--Topical: Segregation, Civil rights movements, Race relations, Boycotts, Health promotion, AIDS activists, Medical assistants, Nurses' aides
Description: Mary Clarke, Charlotte-Mecklenburg NAACP president (1986-1990), describes her experiences working for the NAACP from the 1950s to the 1990s, with attention given to her early role as a fundraiser and her later work as chapter president. Ms. Clarke...

Title: Sidney Freeman oral history interview 1, 2003 May 21
Creator: Freeman, Sidney L.
Date Created: 2003-05-21
Subjects--Topical: Civil rights movements, Civil rights demonstrations, Civil rights, Segregation, Discrimination in education, School integration, Education--Political aspects, Trials, litigation, etc., Equality, Race relations, Racism, College teachers, Unitarian churches--Clergy
Description: Rev. Dr. Sidney L. Freeman, the longtime minister of the Unitarian Universalist Church of Charlotte (UUCC), recounts his involvement in the city's civil rights movement. Originally from Wisconsin, Dr. Freeman moved to Charlotte in 1957 to take the...

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: Jack Claiborne oral history interview 1, 2003 June 5
Creator: Claiborne, Jack
Date Created: 2003-06-05
Subjects--Topical: Editorials, Sports journalism, Newspapers, Journalists, Newspaper editors, Segregation, Race discrimination, Race relations
Description: Jack Claiborne, former editor at the Charlotte Observer and former director of public relations at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte (UNC Charlotte), reflects on his life, work, and the city of Charlotte. Mr. Claiborne talks about his ...

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: David Hunter oral history interview 2, 2005 April 14
Creator: Hunter, David, 1933-
Date Created: 2005-04-14
Subjects--Topical: African Americans--Social conditions, Mathematics--Study and teaching, Race relations, Segregation, Segregation in education, African American schools, College integration, Social integration, Education, Civil rights demonstrations
Description: David Lee Hunter chronicles his experiences growing up in Charlotte, North Carolina during segregation in the 1940s and 1950s to later living and working in an integrated society. Mr. Hunter describes working as a teenager during the 1940s at the ...

Title: Ernest Henderson oral history interview, 2004 March 9
Creator: Henderson, Ernest, Sr., 1917-2011
Date Created: 2004-03-09
Subjects--Topical: Families, Family farms, Farm life, Molasses, African American schools, Segregation in education, Segregation, Military education, Air pilots, Military, African American air pilots, Flight training, Armed Forces, War
Description: Ernest Henderson talks about his experiences as an African American growing up in Mountville, South Carolina during the 1920s and later serving in the Army Air Corps as a flight instructor during World War II. Mr. Henderson describes attending hig...

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: John Lafferty oral history interview, 2004 October 11
Creator: Lafferty, John, 1947-
Date Created: 2004-10-11
Subjects--Topical: Track and field, College sports, Segregation, Student government, Courts, African American college students--Political activity, Race relations, Universities and colleges--Social aspects
Description: John Lafferty recounts his experience attending the University of North Carolina at Charlotte in the late 1960s. A founding member of UNC Charlotte's track and field team, he discusses the team's creation, the camaraderie between the teammates, an...

Title: Donald G. Bryant oral history interview, 2004 March 24
Creator: Bryant, Don, 1923-2013
Date Created: 2004-03-24
Subjects--Topical: Urban renewal, African American business enterprises, African American neighborhoods, Segregation, Political and social views, Political participation, City councils, City council members, Cities and towns--Growth, City managers
Description: Donald G. Bryant discusses his role as the only dissenting voice on the Charlotte City Council (1961-1965) in opposition to Charlotte's urban redevelopment plan. He agreed with the other city council members that poverty and poor living conditions...

Title: I understand that you investigated and cleared Judge Carswell on his racial pronouncements.
Creator: Payne, Eugene G., 1919-2010
Date Created: 1970-01-23
Subjects--Topical: Political cartoons, Politics and government--Caricatures and cartoons, Judges--Selection and appointment, Segregation, Racism
Description: Topics include: G. Harrold Carswell; Challenges to Supreme Court nominees; Supreme Court of the United States; Segregationists; United States Department of Justice; Supreme Court nominations; Racism

Title: I've grown accustomed to his face...
Creator: Payne, Eugene G., 1919-2010
Date Created: 1967-08-31
Subjects--Topical: Political cartoons, Politics and government--Caricatures and cartoons, Segregation, Elections, U.S. states--Politics and government
Description: Topics include: Mississippi politics and government; Mississippi elections; Segregationists

Title: Thereasea Delerine Elder oral history interview 2, 2001 May 9
Creator: Elder, Thereasea D. Clark (Thereasea Delerine Clark), 1927-2021
Date Created: 2001-05-09
Subjects--Topical: African American nurses, Public health nursing, Health and race, Discrimination in medical care, Household employees, Housing, Race relations, Civil rights movements, Segregation, School integration
Description: Thereasea Elder recounts her and her family's experiences living in Charlotte throughout the twentieth century, as well as her forty-five years as a nurse. Growing up in a segregated Charlotte, she describes life in the close-knit African American...

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: 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...

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