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Title: Latinos in Charlotte
Date Created: 2002, 2003, 2002
Subjects--Topical: Latin Americans, Hispanic Americans, Emigration and immigration
Description: These interviews with members of Charlotte's Latino community were conducted to complement a traveling exhibition from the Smithsonian, "Americanos: Latino Life in the United States," which was mounted at the Museum of the New South in 2002-2003. ...

Title: Janet S. Gamble and Delores A. Crowder oral history interview 1, 2004 January 12
Creator: Gamble, Janet S., 1940-
Date Created: 2004-01-12
Subjects--Topical: African American elementary schools, African American school children, Segregation in education, Rural schools, Corporal punishment of children, Student activities
Description: In this first of two interviews, Mecklenburg County natives Janet Gamble and Delores Crowder discuss their private family lives, the Derita neighborhood in Charlotte, and their elementary school experiences attending the all-black Rockwell Rosenwa...

Title: Charlotte Regional Oral History
Date Created: 2002, 2017
Description: This collection represents a wide-ranging mix of interviews that were conducted between the 1970s and the present to document many aspects of life and culture in the Charlotte region. Interviewees include prominent individuals from the Charlotte a...

Title: West Charlotte High School During Integration
Date Created: 1999
Description: Interviews in this collection chronicle the experiences of teachers and students at West Charlotte High School, "the school that made desegregation work," primarily during the busing era of the 1970s and 1980s. The formerly segregated all-black We...

Title: Charlotte Medical Community
Date Created: 2002 - 2003
Description: The Charlotte Medical Community Collection is a grouping of interviews conducted with medical professionals in the Charlotte region. The interviews represent a wide cross section of local medical history and were conducted by a variety of intervie...

Title: Civil Rights and Desegregation in Charlotte
Date Created: 2001 - 2003
Description: The Civil Rights and Desegregation in Charlotte collection is a grouping of interviews that were conducted by UNC Charlotte Atkins Library Special Collections staff with activists for civil rights in the Charlotte area. The interviewees include pr...

Title: Professional Women
Date Created: 1993
Description: Jennifer Greeson interviewed seventeen professional women from the Charlotte region in 1993 as part of an internship with the Museum of the New South (now the Levine Museum of the New South). The project was funded by the Benjamin N. Duke Leadersh...

Title: Janet S. Gamble and Delores A. Crowder oral history interview 2, 2004 February 23
Creator: Gamble, Janet S., 1940-
Date Created: 2004-02-23
Subjects--Topical: African American elementary schools, African American school children, Segregation in education, Rural schools, School integration
Description: In this second of two interviews, Mecklenburg County natives Janet Gamble and Delores Crowder discuss their private family lives, the Derita neighborhood in Charlotte, and their elementary school experiences attending the all-black Rockwell Rosenw...

Title: Motorsports
Date Created: 2005 - 2008
Description: The Motorsports interviews were recorded between 2006 and 2017 on the recommendation of NASCAR photographer T. Taylor Warren. Warren notified Special Collections about the potential to interview "old timers" within the motorsports community, who m...

Title: David Goldfield Student Project on Change in the Charlotte Region
Date Created: 1991 - 2006
Description: The Goldfield collection consists of interviews conducted by UNC Charlotte upper level undergraduate students in Dr. David Goldfield's history classes between 1990 and 2006. The purpose of these interviews was to chronicle the significant cha...

Title: The Era Before Brown v. Board of Education
Date Created: 2005
Description: These interviews were conducted by Special Collections staff to complement a Levine Museum of the New South award winning exhibit titled "Courage: The Carolina Story That Changed America," which was mounted in 2004 to celebrate the 50th anniversar...

Title: Planning and Development of Charlotte, N.C.
Date Created: 1940, 1990, 1945
Description: This collection primarily comprises government documents relating to the development and planning of Charlotte, N.C. in the postwar era of the twentieth century. Publication dates of materials in this collection range from 1935-1993, but the bulk ...

Title: Open Schools in Charlotte-Mecklenburg
Date Created: 2004, 2005
Description: These interviews discuss the history and significance of open schools in the Charlotte-Mecklenburg school system. Coinciding with court-ordered busing and following a national trend in education, three optional open school programs were opened in ...

Title: Student Project on the Charlotte African American Community
Date Created: 2004 - 2006
Description: These interviews were conducted by UNC Charlotte students for a class in African Studies taught by Dr. Robert Smith between 2004 and 2006. The project was titled "Talk, Listen, and Learn: The Charlotte African American Oral History Project," and t...

Title: The Druid Hills Community
Date Created: 2015
Description: The Druid Hills neighborhood in Charlotte, North Carolina, is located in the wedge between the Graham Street and Statesville Avenue corridors. This historic neighborhood is facing the potential challenge of gentrification and affordable housing lo...

Title: UNC Charlotte Honors College and Charlotte Action Research Project Interviews on Charlotte Neighborhoods
Date Created: 2015-10-05, 2016-04-20
Description: This collection documents the history of several of Charlotte's inner core neighborhoods through the recollections of community members. Residents of Optimist Park, Washington Heights, and Druid Hills share their life stories and discuss thei...

Title: Jimmie Lee Kirkpatrick and De Kirkpatrick on the Legacy of Slavery in Mecklenburg County
Date Created: 2017
Description: Native Charlotteans Jimmie Lee Kirkpatrick and De Kirkpatrick discuss their ongoing journey together after discovering that their family histories were interwoven through the institution of slavery. Although they were both classmates at Myers Park...

Title: Levine Museum of the New South
Date Created: 1993, 1999
Description: The Levine Museum of the New South collection is divided into thirteen series that cover a variety of historical topics related to the Charlotte region during the twentieth and early twenty-first centuries. Museum staff, student interns and consul...

Title: Charlotte Jewish Historical Society
Date Created: 1989
Description: The Charlotte Jewish Historical Society, a project of the Carolina Agency for Jewish Education, collected these interviews, which are part of a much larger collection that has been ongoing for many years. UNC Charlotte worked with the Charlotte Je...

Title: Small But Significant : The Optimist Park Community
Date Created: 2015-10-15, 2016-04-20
Description: Optimist Park, a small community just outside the 277 beltway, is facing intense gentrification pressure due to the Blue Line Light Rail Extension and Charlotte's growth. As apartment buildings are planned and begin to take shape, the residen...