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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: 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...

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: Leon Gleaton oral history interview, 2015 November 10
Creator: Gleaton, Leon S.
Date Created: 2015-11-10
Subjects--Topical: Child rearing, Segregation, Homelessness
Description: Leon Gleaton was born and raised in Druid Hills, Charlotte, North Carolina, and has lived in the neighborhood much of his life. Mr. Gleaton describes the major differences he perceives between the community of his youth, which he claims emphasized...

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: Benjamin F. Wyant Jr. oral history interview, 1994 November 2
Creator: Wyant, Benjamin F. (Benjamin Frank), Jr., 1920-1998
Date Created: 1994-11-02
Subjects--Topical: Depressions, African Americans--Employment, Industrial relations, Political and social views, Political parties, Segregation
Description: Benjamin F. Wyant, Jr. recounts his memories of growing up in the Charlotte neighborhood of Dilworth and of his forty-three year career at Duke Power Company. In particular, he recalls working as a boy at his father's family business during the ch...

Title: Maggie Massey Freeman oral history interview, 1996 June 4
Creator: Freeman, Maggie Massey, 1919-2004
Date Created: 1996-06-04
Subjects--Topical: Family farms, Sharecropping, Segregation, Segregation in education, Christian life, Christianity, Families--Religious aspects--Christianity, Revivals, African Americans--Civil rights, Nursing, Political planning--Citizen participation, Race relations
Description: Maggie Freeman discusses her life in Charlotte, North Carolina, and her childhood as a sharecropper's daughter on the farmland of William Franklin Graham Sr., father of Reverend Billy Graham. She addresses family life and children's leisure activi...

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: 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: 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: Price Davis oral history interview 2, 2004 March 19
Creator: Davis, Price, 1920-
Date Created: 2004-03-19
Subjects--Topical: African American neighborhoods, Segregation, Segregation in education, African Americans--Civil rights, Police brutality, African American police, Race discrimination
Description: Price Davis discusses his memories of living in the Cherry neighborhood in Charlotte, North Carolina and visiting the nearby Brooklyn neighborhood, also known as Second Ward. He shares fond memories of Brooklyn, including attending Second Ward Hig...

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: 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: "Chatty" Hattie Leeper oral history interview 1, 2006 December 11
Creator: Leeper, Hattie, 1930-
Date Created: 2006-12-11
Subjects--Topical: African American neighborhoods, African American families, Segregation, Segregation in education, Race relations, Corporal punishment of children, Disc jockeys, Popular music radio stations, African American radio stations
Description: In the first of three interviews, radio DJ "Chatty" Hattie Leeper discusses her early life in the Third Ward and Brookhill neighborhoods in Charlotte, North Carolina. She describes her family and neighborhood, and her experiences attending the seg...

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: Vernard Thompson oral history interview, 2006 December 2
Creator: Thompson, Vernard, 1948-
Date Created: 2006-12-02
Subjects--Topical: Racism, Police-community relations, Segregation, African American neighborhoods, African American soldiers--Social conditions, Sports--Social aspects, Urban renewal
Description: Vernard Thompson recounts his early life growing up in Charlotte's Third Ward neighborhood and life in the city's African American community during segregation. He discusses his childhood, his experiences attending segregated schools dur...

Title: Mary Vaughn oral history interview, 2006 November 18
Creator: Vaughn, Mary, 1938-
Date Created: 2006-11-18
Subjects--Topical: African Americans--Drug use, Gentrification, Race discrimination, Segregation, Urban renewal, Working poor
Description: Mary Vaughn describes her experiences growing up in the segregated Charlotte neighborhood of Brooklyn and shares her opinions on social issues at the time of interview. She recalls the poor quality of the homes in her neighborhood and how her fami...

Title: Robert L. Barret oral history interview 1, 2014 October 1
Creator: Barret, Robert L.
Date Created: 2014-10-01
Subjects--Topical: Race discrimination, Homophobia, Segregation, Civil rights, Gay men, AIDS (Disease), AIDS (Disease)--Patients--Services for, AIDS (Disease)--Psychological aspects
Description: In this first of three interviews, Dr. Robert L. Barret, professor emeritus in counseling at UNC Charlotte, practicing psychotherapist, and LGBTQ activist, discusses his life and career changes that led up to his involvement as an advocate for LGB...

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