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Title: Charles Jones oral history interview 1, 2005 May 18
Creator: Jones, Charles, 1937-
Date Created: 2005-05-18
Subjects--Topical: African Americans--Civil rights, Civil rights workers, Civil rights movements, Civil rights demonstrations, Civil rights--Religious aspects, Racism, Segregation, Nonviolence
Description: J. Charles Jones--civil rights activist, Freedom Rider, and founding member of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC)--recounts his early life growing up in the Carolinas and his involvement in the civil rights movement. A native of ...

Title: Elaine Lynch oral history interview, 2004 April 27
Creator: Lynch, Elaine, 1942-
Date Created: 2004-04-27
Subjects--Topical: Teachers, African American schools, African American families, African American churches, Segregation, Segregation in education, African Americans--Social conditions, Race relations, School integration, Civil rights movements
Description: Elaine Lynch discusses her home and family life while growing up in Charlotte, North Carolina during the 1940s and 1950s. She recounts attending York Road High School and other segregated schools; interactions with white children; spending summers...

Title: Constance Oliphant oral history interview, 2015 November 5
Creator: Oliphant, Constance C. (Constance Colston)
Date Created: 2015-11-05
Subjects--Topical: Physical education teachers, Swimming, Segregation, Civil rights movements
Description: Constance Oliphant, who moved to Druid Hills in Charlotte North Carolina with her family in the 1950s, describes her life and her experiences growing up in the neighborhood. Mrs. Oliphant reflects on the significance of her time spent as a swim in...

Title: Jimmie Lee Kirkpatrick and H.D. Kirkpatrick oral history interview 1, 2017 October 6
Creator: Kirkpatrick, Jimmie Lee
Date Created: 2017-10-06
Subjects--Topical: Racism, Slavery, Christian life, Football, Segregation in education, Segregation, Race relations, Civil rights movements, Shrine Bowl of the Carolinas (Football), Bombings
Description: In this first of four related interviews, Jimmie Lee Kirkpatrick and H.D. Kirkpatrick discuss their disparate experiences growing up and attending school in segregated Charlotte, North Carolina during the 1950s and 1960s. Jimmie Lee Kirkpatrick ta...

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: 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: 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: 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: 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: Plaintiffs in petition to integrate Bonnie Brae Golf Course, Charlotte
Date Created: 1954
Subjects--Topical: Segregation, Discrimination in public accommodations, Civil rights movements, African Americans--Civil rights, Golf