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Title: Betty Seizinger oral history interview, 1999 June 22
Creator: Seizinger, Betty, 1931-2004
Date Created: 1999-06-22
Subjects--Topical: School integration, School integration--Public opinion, Discrimination in education, De facto school segregation, Teachers, Magnet schools, Busing for school integration, Race relations
Description: Betty Seizinger discusses the history of West Charlotte High School and shares her experiences as a teacher there during the 1980s. Ms. Seizinger describes West Charlotte's challenges and successes in integrating staff and students during the...

Title: Beverly Moore oral history interview, 2005 May 27
Creator: Moore, Beverly, 1947-
Date Created: 2005-05-27
Subjects--Topical: Open plan schools, Special education, Exceptional children, Teachers
Description: Beverly Moore discusses her experience with behaviorally and emotionally disturbed children, and her connection with the open school program in Charlotte. While Ms. Moore began her career in the Columbia, South Carolina school district, she eventu...

Title: Bonnie E. Cone oral history interview 7, 1987 December 8
Creator: Cone, Bonnie E., 1907-2003
Date Created: 1987-12-08
Subjects--Topical: Country life, Teachers, Universities and colleges
Description: In this second of a series of interviews conducted by Dr. Ed Perzel (former Chair of the Department of History and Associate Dean for the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences at UNC Charlotte), Bonnie Cone reflects on her childhood, youth, and ear...

Title: Carol Newman oral history interview 1, 2005 December 14
Creator: Newman, Carol, 1946-2007
Date Created: 2005-12-14
Subjects--Topical: Open plan schools, Student-centered learning, Teachers, Experiential learning, Teachers--In-service training
Description: Carol Newman, longtime administrator with the Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools (CMS) system discusses her involvement with the city's open school program between 1974 and the 1990s. Mrs. Newman describes her early interest in open education, whi...

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: Carolyn P. Powell oral history interview, 2004 December 2
Creator: Powell, Carolyn P.
Date Created: 2004-12-02
Subjects--Topical: Open plan schools, Teachers, School management and organization, Student activities, Multiculturalism, Education--Experimental methods
Description: Carolyn Powell discusses her experiences as both a teacher and administrator at Piedmont Open Middle School. Ms. Powell began her tenure at Piedmont as a teacher in 1978, and held the position of assistant principal from 1994 to 2004. Ms. Powell d...

Title: Daniel Ford Faris oral history interview, 2005 June 22
Creator: Faris, Daniel Ford, 1944-
Date Created: 2005-06-22
Subjects--Topical: Open plan schools, Teachers, Language arts (Middle school), Teaching teams, Grading and marking (Students), School discipline--Evaluation, Student-centered learning, Active learning, Mixed ability grouping in education
Description: Teacher Daniel Ford Faris describes the open education learning environment at Piedmont Open Middle School between 1977 and 1997. He discusses his methods of teaching students and compares his teaching methods during his time at Spaugh Middle Scho...

Title: Faith McConnell oral history interview, 1979 May 25
Creator: McConnell, Faith, 1902-
Date Created: 1979-05-25
Subjects--Topical: School children, Farm life, Families, Teachers, Rural schools, Education, Rural
Description: Faith McConnell shares her memories of growing up on a farm in York County, South Carolina during the early twentieth century. She describes details of her home life, including her family's use of an ironing pot and an ash hopper to make lye soap ...

Title: Illiteracy cartoon
Creator: Payne, Eugene G., 1919-2010
Date Created: 1970-12-10
Subjects--Topical: Political cartoons, Politics and government--Caricatures and cartoons, Literacy, Education, Teachers
Description: Topics include: Teachers; Education; Literacy

Title: John Murphy oral history interview, 2007 April 15
Creator: Murphy, John Matthew, Jr., 1935-2012
Date Created: 2007-04-15
Subjects--Topical: African Americans--Segregation, Teachers, African American churches, African American schools, African American neighborhoods, African American families, Dentistry, Community organization, Urban renewal
Description: John Murphy shares his memories of the Brooklyn neighborhood of Charlotte, North Carolina, also known as Second Ward, and his career as a dentist in Charlotte. He describes his experience attending school in Brooklyn, including the importance of r...

Title: Linda Bellamy oral history interview, 2005 October 25
Creator: Bellamy, Linda, 1952-
Date Created: 2005-10-25
Subjects--Topical: English language--Study and teaching--Foreign speakers, Open plan schools, Teachers, Multiculturalism
Description: Linda Bellamy talks about her career at Irwin Elementary and her work in developing the English as a second language (ESL) program in the school. Ms. Bellamy reflects on the challenges she faced in developing this program and in teaching ESL stude...

Title: Martha O'Neill oral history interview, 2005 August 12
Creator: O'Neill, Martha, 1956-
Date Created: 2005-08-12
Subjects--Topical: Open plan schools, Drama in education, Arts in education, Musicals, School field trips, Sex instruction, Teachers
Description: Martha O'Neill shares her experiences as a drama teacher at Piedmont Open Middle School in Charlotte. She describes the characteristics of open education as it was understood and practiced within the school, including a focus on the whole child, a...

Title: Naomi White-Hewitt oral history interview, 2002 November 1
Creator: White-Hewitt, Naomi
Date Created: 2002-11-01
Subjects--Topical: African American families, African Americans--Segregation, Busing for school integration, Land use, Rural, Race relations, Race discrimination, Racism, Family farms, Camp meetings, Teachers, Deeds, Water--Pollution
Description: Naomi White-Hewitt discusses her family's history in Catawba County, North Carolina and her experiences as an African American woman living in a primarily white, rural community. Mrs. White-Hewitt talks about camp meetings, race relations in the a...

Title: North Carolina sales tax cartoon
Creator: Payne, Eugene G., 1919-2010
Date Created: 1969-02-11
Subjects--Topical: Political cartoons, Politics and government--Caricatures and cartoons, U.S. states--Politics and government, Teachers, Sales tax--U.S. states
Description: Topics include: North Carolina taxes; North Carolina politics and government

Title: Sarah Alexander oral history interview, 2000 February 3
Creator: Alexander, Sarah Land, 1913-
Date Created: 2000-02-03
Subjects--Topical: Teachers, Families, Rich people, Genealogy, Family farms, Farm life, Cotton growing, Tenant farmers, Dairy farms, Barns, Dairy barns--Design and construction, Dairy barns, Farm equipment, Education
Description: Sarah Land Alexander Sr. and her daughter, Sarah Land Alexander Jr., talk about their lives and the history of the Alexander family farm in Charlotte, North Carolina. Mrs. Alexander Sr. describes how she met her husband, William Tasse 'Bill' Alexa...

Title: Sherrill Coutourier oral history interview, 2005 October 19
Creator: Coutourier, Sherrill, 1948-
Date Created: 2005-10-19
Subjects--Topical: Education, Teachers, Open plan schools, Student-centered learning, Parent-teacher relationships, Education--Parent participation
Description: Sherrill Coutourier discusses her experiences as a teacher in Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools' open schools program from the 1970s to the 1990s. Topics discussed includes the benefits of open education for both students and teachers, parental i...

Title: Take these regularly, doctor, and get plenty of rest.
Creator: Payne, Eugene G., 1919-2010
Date Created: 1971-07-07
Subjects--Topical: Political cartoons, Politics and government--Caricatures and cartoons, Teachers, Postemployment benefits, U.S. states--Politics and government
Description: Topics include: North Carolina General Assembly; Teachers; Retirement benefits; North Carolina politics and government

Title: Teachers' strike cartoon
Creator: Payne, Eugene G., 1919-2010
Date Created: 1967-09-15
Subjects--Topical: Political cartoons, Politics and government--Caricatures and cartoons, Teachers, Labor unions, Strikes and lockouts--Teachers
Description: Topics include: Teachers' strikes; Organized labor

Title: Then you add equal parts...
Creator: Payne, Eugene G., 1919-2010
Date Created: 1967-09-12
Subjects--Topical: Political cartoons, Politics and government--Caricatures and cartoons, Teachers, Labor unions, Strikes and lockouts--Teachers
Description: Topics include: Teachers' strikes; New York City Board of Education; United Federation of Teachers; Organized labor

Title: Truant
Creator: Payne, Eugene G., 1919-2010
Date Created: 1968-10-15
Subjects--Topical: Political cartoons, Politics and government--Caricatures and cartoons, Strikes and lockouts--Teachers, Teachers
Description: Topics include: Teachers' strikes; New York City teachers' strike of 1968; New York City Board of Education

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