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Alvin C. Jacobs oral history interview, 2019 December 13
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Creator
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Jacobs Jr., Alvin C.
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Date Created
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2019-12-13
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Subjects--Topical
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Photography, Artistic, Protest movements, Social justice, Racism, Police shootings
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Alvin C. Jacobs, Jr. is a professional photographer and image activist from Rockford, Illinois. In this interview, Mr. Jacobs discusses his life from childhood to adulthood and how particular events during his life influenced him. He details how h...
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Barbara Campbell oral history interview, 1998 November 13
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Creator
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Campbell, Barbara, 1943-
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Date Created
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1998-11-13
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Subjects--Topical
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Girls' schools, Race relations, Racism, Foreign study, Political and social views, Managed care plans (Medical care), Abortion--Public opinion, Mass media--Influence, Recycling industry
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Longtime Charlotte resident Barbara Campbell discusses her life, career, and opinion on current political issues at the time of the interview. She talks about growing up in Long Island, New York, and attending an all girls' boarding school in Rhod...
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Benjamin Chavis Jr. oral history interview, 2005 February 7
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Creator
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Chavis, Ben, 1948-
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Date Created
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2005-02-07
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Subjects--Topical
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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
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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...
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Carrie Graves oral history interview, 2005 April 20
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Creator
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Graves, Carrie, 1936-
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Date Created
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2005-04-20
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Subjects--Topical
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Classroom environment, Segregation in education, School integration, Busing for school integration, Racism, Education, Home economics--Study and teaching, School discipline
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Description
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Carrie Graves describes her experience growing up in Cherry, a predominantly African American neighborhood in Charlotte, North Carolina, and her education at the segregated Morgan Elementary School and Second Ward High School during the 1940s thro...
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Chantel V. Johnson oral history interview, 2019 April 3
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Creator
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Johnson, Chantel, 1987-
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Date Created
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2019-04-3
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Subjects--Topical
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Racism, Racism--Political aspects, Women farmers, Farms, Livestock, Social media
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Description
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Chantel Johnson, owner of Off the Grid in Color farm in Salisbury, North Carolina, recounts how she first entered agriculture and homesteading in 2016 as a way of healing after the tragic death of her youngest brother to gun violence in Chicago. S...
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Charles Jones oral history interview 1, 2005 May 18
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Creator
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Jones, Charles, 1937-
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Date Created
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2005-05-18
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Subjects--Topical
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African Americans--Civil rights, Civil rights workers, Civil rights movements, Civil rights demonstrations, Civil rights--Religious aspects, Racism, Segregation, Nonviolence
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Description
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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 ...
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D Evans oral history interview, 2018 May 7
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Creator
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Evans, D
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Date Created
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2018-05-07
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Subjects--Topical
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Coming out (Sexual orientation), Closeted LGBTQ+ people, Homophobia--Religious aspects--Christianity, AIDS (Disease)--Patients--Services for, Homophobia, Racism
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In this interview, D. Evans, a founding member of One Voice Chorus, an LGBTQ choir in Charlotte North Carolina, shares her experience being a gay, biracial woman in North Carolina. Ms. Evans discusses her difficult childhood and the move from Long...
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Daisy Shipp oral history interview, 2004 March 24
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Creator
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Shipp, Daisy, 1944-
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Date Created
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2004-03-24
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Subjects--Topical
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African American business enterprises, Nurses, School integration, Discrimination in education, Discrimination in employment, Racism, Urban renewal, Racism in medicine
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Gastonia, North Carolina native Daisy Shipp recounts her experiences as a nurse in the Charlotte region during the 1970s when the medical field in Charlotte was beginning to integrate. She discusses the training process of becoming a nurse as well...
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Ed DePasquale oral history interview, 2016 October 19
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Creator
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DePasquale, Ed, 1933-2019
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Date Created
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2016-10-19
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Subjects--Topical
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Italian Americans, Stores, Retail--Management, Gay men, Gay men--Sexual behavior, Racism, Gay men--Family relationships, Sexual orientation--Religious aspects, Christianity, Gay relationships
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WARNING: This interview includes language that many may find offensive, including racist, sexist, homophobic, transphobic, and anti-Semitic statements. Ed DePasquale discusses his life as a gay man in Charlotte, North Carolina for the past sixty y...
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Elizabeth Samuel Weinstein oral history interview 2, 2004 April 9
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Creator
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Weinstein, Elizabeth Samuel, 1935-
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Date Created
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2004-04-09
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Subjects--Topical
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African American families, African American neighborhoods, African American schools, Segregation, Race relations, Racism, Rural schools, Teachers--Training of, Teacher-principal relationships, Elementary school principals
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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...
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Fernando Estrada oral history interview, 2002 October 1
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Creator
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Estrada, Fernando, 1984-
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Date Created
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2002-10-01
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Subjects--Topical
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Latin Americans, Hispanic Americans, Hispanic Americans--Social conditions, Racism, Education, Secondary, Emigration and immigration, Emigration and immigration--Social aspects, Soccer
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Born in Iguala, Mexico, Fernando Estrada was a high school student in Charlotte, North Carolina at the time of this interview and had lived in the United States for one year. He discusses differences between education in the United States and Mexi...
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Girvaud Justice oral history interview 4, 2006 September 22
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Justice, Girvaud, 1944-
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Date Created
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2006-09-22
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Subjects--Topical
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Race relations, Sexism, Racism, Diversity in the workplace, Sexual harassment, Sex in the workplace, Civil service positions, Illegal aliens
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Girvaud Justice was one of four African American students who attended all-white schools in Charlotte in 1957 as a challenge to the city's slow response to desegregate schools, which had been mandated by the Supreme Court ruling in Brown v. B...
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H.D. Kirkpatrick oral history interview, 2017 November 17
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Creator
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Kirkpatrick, H. D. (Hugh DeArmond), II, 1948-
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Date Created
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2017-11-17
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Subjects--Topical
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Racism, Genealogy, Conscientious objectors, Humanistic psychology, Child abuse--Law and legislation, Slavery, Bible. Genesis, Enslavement
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In this fourth and final recording in a series of interviews with Jimmie Lee and H.D. Kirkpatrick, H.D. Kirkpatrick reflects on his family, his life experiences, and his shifting perspective on family and Southern history. Dr. Kirkpatrick describe...
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Henry Heath oral history interview, 2015 October 17
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Creator
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Heath, Henry, 1942-
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Date Created
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2015-10-17
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Subjects--Topical
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African Americans--Music, African American families, African American neighborhoods, Gentrification, Urban poor--Social conditions, Segregation in education, Racism, Civil rights movements
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Henry Heath, a native of Charlotte, North Carolina, describes his life and his involvement in the Optimist Park community since 1987. Mr. Heath details his childhood growing up close to Beatties Ford Road, including his education at segregated loc...
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Jada Flowers oral history interview, 2020 March 23
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Flowers, Jada
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Date Created
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2020-03-23
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Subjects--Topical
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College students, Black, Police shootings, Protest movements, Racism, School shootings, COVID-19 (Disease)--Social aspects
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In this interview, Jada Flowers shares her experience as the Vice President of the Black Student Union at UNC Charlotte. She also discusses her views on racial justice, especially how it may have changed after Keith Lamont Scott was killed by a po...
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James Cuthbertson Jr. oral history interview, 2004 July 28
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Cuthbertson, James, 1950-
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Date Created
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2004-07-28
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Subjects--Topical
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African American college students, African American student movements, Civil rights, College integration, Race relations, Racism, School integration, Student unions, Universities and colleges--Social aspects, Greek letter societies, African American Greek letter societies
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James Cuthbertson recounts his experiences as one of the few African American students attending the University of North Carolina at Charlotte during the late 1960s to the early 1970s. As a member of the Black Student Union, he discusses how the s...
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James E. Ferguson II oral history interview, 2001 November 28
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Ferguson, James E. (James Elliott), 1942-
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Date Created
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2001-11-28
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Subjects--Topical
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African American lawyers, Trials, litigation, etc., Racism, Race relations, Civil rights movements, Segregation in education, School integration, Busing for school integration
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James Ferguson, a partner at the first integrated law firm in North Carolina, recounts his life's work fighting for civil rights in the state. His involvement with social justice began when he was still in high school, where he helped found the As...
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Jimmie Lee Kirkpatrick and H.D. Kirkpatrick oral history interview 1, 2017 October 6
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Creator
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Kirkpatrick, Jimmie Lee
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Date Created
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2017-10-06
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Subjects--Topical
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Racism, Slavery, Christian life, Football, Segregation in education, Segregation, Race relations, Civil rights movements, Shrine Bowl of the Carolinas (Football), Bombings
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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...
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Jimmie Lee Kirkpatrick and H.D. Kirkpatrick oral history interview 2, 2017 October 10
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Kirkpatrick, Jimmie Lee
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Date Created
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2017-10-10
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Subjects--Topical
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Football, Race relations, Soul music, Racism, Civil rights movements, Conscientious objectors, Education, Shrine Bowl of the Carolinas (Football)
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In this second of four related interviews with Jimmie Lee and H.D. Kirkpatrick, Jimmie Lee Kirkpatrick discusses his eventful life after graduating from Myers Park High School in 1965. He describes how he attended Purdue University, where he conti...
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Jimmie Lee Kirkpatrick and H.D. Kirkpatrick oral history interview 3, 2017 October 23
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Creator
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Kirkpatrick, Jimmie Lee
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Date Created
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2017-10-23
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Subjects--Topical
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Race relations, Racism, Slavery, Genealogy, Poverty, African Americans--Reparations, Football, Enslavement
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In this third of four related interviews,, H.D. Kirkpatrick and Jimmie Lee Kirkpatrick continue to discuss their relationship as it developed after their revelation that their family histories are connected through slavery in Charlotte and Mecklen...