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Alfred Alexander oral history interview, 2001 May 10
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Creator
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Alexander, Alfred L., 1952-
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Date Created
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2001-05-10
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Subjects--Topical
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African Americans--Segregation, Civil rights movements, Segregation in education, School integration, Bombings, Busing for school integration, Discrimination in public accommodations, Group identity, Race relations
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Description
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Alfred Alexander describes his early life in Charlotte, North Carolina during the 1950s-1970s as the son of prominent civil rights pioneer Kelly Alexander Sr., a leader in the Charlotte and the North Carolina branches of the NAACP. As a child he l...
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Connie Patton oral history interview 1, 2005 May 2
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Creator
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Patton, Connie, 1925-
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Date Created
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2005-05-02
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Subjects--Topical
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African American neighborhoods, African Americans--Segregation, Segregation in education, Student activities, Social values, Youth--Employment, Soldiers
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Description
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Connie Patton shares his memories of his family, school life, and the Brooklyn neighborbood in Charlotte where he grew up during the 1930s and 1940s. Mr. Patton describes the Brooklyn of his youth as a close knit African American community with so...
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Daisy Stroud oral history interview 2, 2005 February 3
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Creator
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Stroud, Daisy S., 1921-
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Date Created
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2005-02-03
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Subjects--Topical
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African Americans--Segregation, Segregation in education, School integration, Teachers, Race relations, Racism in education, School discipline
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Description
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Daisy Spears Stroud describes her life and experiences as an educator in the Charlotte Mecklenburg school system. Mrs. Stroud's teaching career spanned the transition from racially segregated to integrated education, and she describes working...
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Freddie and Christine Sanders oral history interview, 2005 February 1
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Creator
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Sanders, Freddie, 1931-
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Date Created
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2005-02-01
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Subjects--Topical
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African American neighborhoods, African Americans--Segregation, Segregation in education, School integration, Teachers, Busing for school integration, Student activities, Students--Social life and customs
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Description
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Freddie and Christine Sanders reflect on what it was like to be students at the all-black Second Ward High School in Charlotte's Brooklyn neighborhood during segregation in the 1940s and early 1950s. They describe school dances, football game...
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Girvaud Justice oral history interview 1, 2006 August 6
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Creator
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Justice, Girvaud, 1944-
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Date Created
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2006-08-06
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Subjects--Topical
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African American neighborhoods, African Americans--Segregation, Discrimination in education, School integration, Segregation in education, Racism in education, Civil rights, African American families, Urban renewal, Soap box derbies, African Americans and libraries
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Description
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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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Girvaud Justice oral history interview 2, 2006 August 11
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Creator
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Justice, Girvaud, 1944-
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Date Created
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2006-08-11
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Subjects--Topical
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African American neighborhoods, African Americans--Segregation, Discrimination in education, School integration, Segregation in education, Racism in education, Civil rights, African American families, Urban renewal, Gentrification, City planning--Citizen participation, Drug traffic--Social aspects, Public housing
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Description
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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. Board ...
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Harvey Boyd oral history interview, 2004 April 17
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Creator
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Boyd, Harvey, 1944-
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Date Created
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2004-04-17
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Subjects--Topical
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African Americans--Segregation, Commercial art, Social integration, Advertising, Newspapers, African Americans--Employment, Mentoring in education
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Description
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Harvey Boyd reflects on his extraordinary life achievements, despite his limited opportunities as an African American man growing up in the segregated South. He begins by describing his childhood home, where he also lived at the time of interview,...
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James L. Ross oral history interview 3, 2005 March 22
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Creator
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Ross, James L., 1934-
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Date Created
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2005-03-22
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Subjects--Topical
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African American neighborhoods, African Americans--Segregation, Segregation in education, Race discrimination, Discrimination in employment, Race relations, Community organization, Group relations training, Civil rights movements
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Description
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James Ross, a native of Mecklenburg County, discusses his experiences with racial segregation and civil rights activism in Charlotte, North Carolina. Growing up in rural Grier Heights, Mr. Ross attended Billingsville Rosenwald Elementary School an...
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Louise Smith Brennan oral history interview, circa 1990-1999
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Creator
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Brennan, Louise Smith, 1922-2007
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Date Created
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circa 1990-1999
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Subjects--Topical
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African Americans--Segregation, Elections, Mills and mill-work, Political parties, Women legislators, Women--Political activity, Women political candidates
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Description
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Louise Brennan recounts her early life growing up in Concord, North Carolina. She discusses the important role of education in her upbringing and the prevalence of textile mills in the Concord area. She describes living near a mill village in Conc...
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Lucille Harwood oral history interview, 1994 October 8
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Creator
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Harwood, Lucille, 1921-
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Date Created
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1994-10-08
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Subjects--Topical
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Depressions, Race relations, African Americans--Segregation
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Description
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Albemarle native Lucille Harwood recounts her experiences during the Great Depression, World War II, and the second half of the twentieth century. She describes growing up very poor during the Depression, but explains how families would always sha...
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Margaret Alexander oral history interview 1, 2001 April 30
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Creator
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Alexander, Margaret G. A., 1924-
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Date Created
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2001-04-30
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Subjects--Topical
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African Americans--Segregation, Civil rights movements, African American women civil rights workers, African American women political activists, Segregation in education, School integration, Bombings, Discrimination in public accommodations, Race relations
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Description
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Margaret Alexander, civil rights activist and wife of civil rights pioneer Kelly Alexander Sr., discusses her involvement in Charlotte's civil rights struggles of the 1950s and 1960s as a member of the Charlotte-Mecklenburg branch of the NAACP. Sh...
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Marty Johnson Saunders oral history interview 2, 2006 December 7
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Creator
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Saunders, Margaret Johnson, 1933-
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Date Created
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2006-12-07
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Subjects--Topical
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African American neighborhoods, African Americans--Segregation, Middle class African Americans, Segregation in education, Race relations, Urban renewal, Social values
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Description
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Charlotte native and teacher Marty Saunders continues the conversation about her life and the Biddleville neighborhood where she grew up in this second interview. She explains that during the 1940s-1950s, Biddleville had a strong sense of communit...
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Reginald A. Hawkins oral history interview 1, 2001 June 11
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Creator
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Hawkins, Reginald Armistice, 1923-2007
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Date Created
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2001-06-11
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Subjects--Topical
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African American political activists, African Americans--Social conditions, Civil rights movements, Civil rights demonstrations, African Americans--Segregation, Political participation, Segregation in education, School integration, Trials, litigation, etc.
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In this interview, Dr. Reginald Armistice Hawkins discusses his significant involvement in the African American Civil Rights Movement nationally, within the state of North Carolina, and in Mecklenburg County. Mr. Hawkins candidly describes his exp...
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Rosa Lee Coleman oral history interview, 1979 May 25
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Creator
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Coleman, Rosa Lee, 1909-1993
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Date Created
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1979-05-25
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Subjects--Topical
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African American household employees, African Americans--Segregation, Household employees, Race discrimination, Race relations, Segregation in transportation
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Rosa Lee Coleman recounts her early life in Fayetteville, North Carolina, as well as her employment as a domestic service worker. As an African American, Mrs. Coleman discusses the complicated dynamics of her relationship with her white female emp...
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Tom Gilmore oral history interview, 1996 September 29
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Creator
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Gilmore, Thomas Odell, Sr., 1936-
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Date Created
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1996-09-29
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Subjects--Topical
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African Americans--Segregation, Segregation in education, Civil rights movements, Political participation, Legislation
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Description
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Tom Gilmore discusses his career in North Carolina politics and in his family business, Gilmore Plant and Bulb. Born in Julian, North Carolina in 1936, he describes being very close as a young boy to an African American boy of the same age. Mr. Gi...
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Viola Boyd oral history interview 1, 2004 March 9
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Creator
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Boyd, Viola, 1911-2009
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Date Created
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2004-03-09
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Subjects--Topical
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African Americans--Segregation, Racism, Beauty operators, Beauty shops, Railroads--Employees, Child labor
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Description
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Viola Boyd describes her life as an African American woman during segregation and the civil rights movement. Mrs. Boyd describes Matthews, North Carolina, and in particular the Crestdale neighborhood where she lived and grew up. She speaks frequen...
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Viola Boyd oral history interview 2, 2004 March 26
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Creator
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Boyd, Viola, 1911-2009
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Date Created
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2004-03-26
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Subjects--Topical
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Racism, African Americans--Segregation, African Americans--Social conditions, African American families, Middle class African Americans, Railroads--Employees, Country life, Beauty operators, Hairdressing of African Americans, Police-community relations
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In this follow-up interview, retired hairdresser Viola Boyd speaks about her life, career, and family. She begins by discussing her experiences while living in Philadelphia as a young wife at the age of 15 in the 1920s, including her search for a ...
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Walter Dial oral history interview, 2004 May 12
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Creator
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Dial, Walter, 1931-
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Date Created
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2004-05-12
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Subjects--Topical
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African American neighborhoods, African Americans--Segregation, African Americans--Social conditions, Segregation in education, Racism, Race relations, Student activities, Manners and customs
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Description
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Walter Dial reminisces about his childhood and youth growing up in Charlotte's Third Ward and attending local segregated schools in the 1930s and 1940s, including Isabella Wyche Elementary and Second Ward High School. Mr. Dial describes the white ...
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William Frank Bonham oral history interview, 2006 November 16
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Creator
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Bonham, William Frank, 1927-
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Date Created
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2006-11-16
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Subjects--Topical
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African American business enterprises, African Americans--Segregation, Police brutality, Race discrimination, Urban renewal--Social aspects
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Description
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William Frank Bonham discusses his life growing up in segregated Charlotte and his significant contributions to the community, in particular his involvement in the local branch of the NAACP and his career as one of the first black telegram deliver...