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Title: Alfred Alexander oral history interview, 2001 May 10
Creator: Alexander, Alfred L., 1952-
Date Created: 2001-05-10
Subjects--Topical: African Americans--Segregation, Civil rights movements, Segregation in education, School integration, Bombings, Busing for school integration, Discrimination in public accommodations, Group identity, Race relations
Description: 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...

Title: Margaret Alexander oral history interview 1, 2001 April 30
Creator: Alexander, Margaret G. A., 1924-
Date Created: 2001-04-30
Subjects--Topical: 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
Description: 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...

Title: Belle Banks oral history interview, 2002 January 25
Creator: Banks, Belle, 1918-2011
Date Created: 2002-01-25
Subjects--Topical: Historic sites, Historic buildings--Conservation and restoration, Historic preservation, Regionalism, Manners and customs
Description: In this interview, librarian and historic preservationist Margaret "Belle" Banks describes her early life in Pennsylvania and Delaware, her move to Charlotte, North Carolina in 1944, and her role in restoring Cedar Grove and the Hugh Torrance Hous...

Title: Jasper Barber oral history interview, 1993 September 22
Creator: Barber, Jasper Dennis, 1932-2002
Date Created: 1993-09-22
Subjects--Topical: Foundries--Management, Foundry workers, Industrial relations, Plastic pipe industry, Piping--Design and construction, Pipe mills, Mechanization, Work environment
Description: Jasper Barber was a Charlotte Pipe and Foundry employee for twenty seven years at the time of the interview. Mr. Barber was hired in 1968 as a machinist for the newly created Plastics Division, and he discusses the various early practical and admi...

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: Andy Baxter oral history interview, 1999 June 29
Creator: Baxter, Andy
Date Created: 1999-06-29
Subjects--Topical: Students, Public schools, School integration, Student government, Segregation in education, Race relations
Description: Andy Baxter talks about his experiences as a student at West Charlotte High School, where he was student council president in his senior year. Mr. Baxter reflects on his experiences with racial integration at the school, speaking at length about t...

Title: C. Vanessa Baxter oral history interview, 2004 December 21
Creator: Baxter, C. Vanessa, 1954-2007
Date Created: 2004-12-21
Subjects--Topical: African American students, Discrimination in education, Racism in education, Segregation in education, School integration, Race relations, School violence, Foreign study
Description: Vanessa Baxter describes her experiences as a student in Charlotte-Mecklenburg schools from 1959 through the early 1970s, focusing in particular on the impact of integration. Ms. Baxter describes attending an all-black elementary school, then movi...

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: Elizabeth Biggerstaff oral history interview, 1996 October 18
Creator: Biggerstaff, Elizabeth, 1922-
Date Created: 1996-10-18
Subjects--Topical: Country life, Mills and mill-work, Manners and customs, Education, Rural, Women in war, Working mothers, Small business--Management, Women--Political activity, Race relations
Description: Rutherford County native Elizabeth Biggerstaff describes her life and how she balances work and family. She describes her early life growing up in the country outside of Cliffside, North Carolina, with two older brothers and attending local school...

Title: Brenda Bilal oral history interview 2, 2005 January 13
Creator: Bilal, Brenda, 1950-
Date Created: 2005-01-13
Subjects--Topical: Open plan schools, Multiculturalism, Educational tests and measurements, Active learning, Independent study
Description: In part two of this two-part interview, Brenda Bilal continues discussing her experience with open education in the Charlotte-Mecklenburg school system. Ms. Bilal criticizes the current trend in mainstream education at the time of interview of inc...

Title: Brenda Bilal oral history interview 1, 2005 January 6
Creator: Bilal, Brenda, 1950-
Date Created: 2005-01-06
Subjects--Topical: Open plan schools, Education, Elementary, Multiculturalism, Educational tests and measurements, Active learning, Independent study
Description: In part one of this two-part interview, Brenda Bilal discusses her experience with open education in the Charlotte Mecklenburg school system. Ms. Bilal describes open education as a method that gives students the opportunity to think creatively, m...

Title: Frances Blanton oral history interview, 1992 November 24
Creator: Blanton, Frances B.
Date Created: 1992-11-24
Subjects--Topical: Social values, Country life, Manners and customs, Dating (Social customs), Homemakers
Description: Longtime Charlotte resident Frances Blanton discusses her family, and her childhood and adolescence. She describes visiting her grandparents on their farm in Cabarrus County, where they made their own butter, cream, and sausage. Mrs. Blanton began...

Title: William Frank Bonham oral history interview, 2006 November 16
Creator: Bonham, William Frank, 1927-
Date Created: 2006-11-16
Subjects--Topical: African American business enterprises, African Americans--Segregation, Police brutality, Race discrimination, Urban renewal--Social aspects
Description: 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...

Title: Sister Mary Michel Boulus oral history interview, 1993 June 28
Creator: Boulus, Mary Michel, Sister, 1926-2012
Date Created: 1993-06-28
Subjects--Topical: Catholics--Education, Catholic schools, Catholic universities and colleges, Nuns as teachers, School integration, Basketball
Description: Sister Mary Michel Boulus recounts her life and her forty-five year career in Catholic education and administration. The daughter of Lebanese immigrants, Sister Boulus grew up in Concord and describes the challenges the Catholic community faced th...

Title: Harvey Boyd oral history interview, 2004 April 17
Creator: Boyd, Harvey, 1944-
Date Created: 2004-04-17
Subjects--Topical: African Americans--Segregation, Commercial art, Social integration, Advertising, Newspapers, African Americans--Employment, Mentoring in education
Description: 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,...

Title: Viola Boyd oral history interview 1, 2004 March 9
Creator: Boyd, Viola, 1911-2009
Date Created: 2004-03-09
Subjects--Topical: African Americans--Segregation, Racism, Beauty operators, Beauty shops, Railroads--Employees, Child labor
Description: 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...

Title: Viola Boyd oral history interview 2, 2004 March 26
Creator: Boyd, Viola, 1911-2009
Date Created: 2004-03-26
Subjects--Topical: 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
Description: 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 ...

Title: Jeanne Brayboy oral history interview, 1997 September 25
Creator: Brayboy, Jeanne, 1930-
Date Created: 1997-09-25
Subjects--Topical: Music--Study and teaching (Elementary), Segregation in education, School integration, School integration--Public opinion, Busing for school integration, Race relations
Description: Jeanne Brayboy recounts her life, career as an elementary school music teacher, and firsthand experience of Charlotte's schools before and after integration. She moved to Charlotte after college and began teaching in segregated black schools, whic...

Title: Louise Smith Brennan oral history interview, circa 1990-1999
Creator: Brennan, Louise Smith, 1922-2007
Date Created: circa 1990-1999
Subjects--Topical: African Americans--Segregation, Elections, Mills and mill-work, Political parties, Women legislators, Women--Political activity, Women political candidates
Description: 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...

Title: G. Jackson Burney oral history interview, 1997 September 4
Creator: Burney, G. Jackson, 1927-
Date Created: 1997-09-04
Subjects--Topical: Radio broadcasting, Music, Voluntarism, Race relations, Poliomyelitis, People with disabilities, Discrimination in employment
Description: Charlottean G. Jackson Burney discusses his career in the communications industry, his family, and his volunteer work. He contracted polio at a young age and discusses throughout the interview how the disease impacted his life. Mr. Burney describe...

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