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Title: Chris Folk oral history interview 2, 1996 September 16
Creator: Folk, Chris Evans, 1930-2010
Date Created: 1996-09-16
Subjects--Topical: School integration, Busing for school integration, Magnet schools, Civil rights, Discrimination in education, Families--Education, Race relations
Description: Dr. Chris Folk, former associate superintendent and longtime employee of the Charlotte-Mecklenburg school system, discusses his life and work as an educator. After reflecting on his early experiences as the son of a textile mill superintendent in ...

Title: Chris Folk oral history interview 3, 1998 October 15
Creator: Folk, Chris Evans, 1930-2010
Date Created: 1998-10-15
Subjects--Topical: Education, Depressions, Mills and mill-work, Cities and towns, Poliomyelitis, Epidemics, Newspapers
Description: Dr. Chris Folk, former associate superintendent of Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools, recounts his childhood growing up in the Charlotte area during World War II and his experiences attending Duke University in the 1940s and 1950s. The son of a textil...

Title: Donnie R. Thrower oral history interview, 1994 October 4
Creator: Thrower, Donnie R. (Donnie Rhyne), 1929-2014
Date Created: 1994-10-04
Subjects--Topical: Cancer--Patients, Hosiery, Nylon, Secretaries, Textile factories, Alzheimer's disease--Patients--Family relationships
Description: Donnie Thrower describes her early life and career in the textile industry in McAdenville and Belmont, North Carolina. She recalls how she quit school at age sixteen in order to go to work at a nylon hosiery mill in Belmont, where she remained for...

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: 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...

Title: Jack Boyte oral history interview, 1996 April 26
Creator: Boyte, Jack O., 1920-2005
Date Created: 1996-04-26
Subjects--Topical: Revivals, Evangelicalism, Religious gatherings, City and town life, Boy Scouts, Presbyterianism, Church fund raising
Description: Native Charlottean Jack Boyte shares his experiences with evangelical revivals in Charlotte, North Carolina. From his days of Boy Scout volunteerism, he discusses his exposure to and participation in the revivals of evangelist Mordecai Ham. He off...

Title: Jean Graham Ford oral history interview, 1996 June 6
Creator: Ford, Jean Graham, 1932-
Date Created: 1996-06-06
Subjects--Topical: Family farms, Christian life, Christianity, Families--Religious aspects--Christianity, Presbyterianism, Revivals, City and town life
Description: Jean Ford, sister of Reverend Billy Graham, describes her life growing up on the Graham Brothers Dairy Farm in Charlotte, North Carolina, including work and leisure activities. Ms. Ford talks about the important role religion played in her family'...

Title: Kathleen Crosby oral history interview, 2001 October 1
Creator: Crosby, Kathleen R. (Kathleen Ross), 1925-2012
Date Created: 2001-10-01
Subjects--Topical: Early childhood education, School management and organization, African American school principals, Early childhood education--Administration, Racism in education, Segregation in education, School integration, Busing for school integration, Race relations, Civil rights movements, Racism, Threats of violence
Description: Kathleen Crosby recounts her forty-year career as an educator in Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools (CMS), as well as her involvement in the civil rights movement in Charlotte. She describes the conditions for African Americans living under Jim Crow in...

Title: Loy H. Witherspoon oral history interview 2, 1991
Creator: Witherspoon, Loy H., 1930-2017
Date Created: 1991
Subjects--Topical: Orphanages, Civil rights movements, Depressions, Teacher-student relationships, Student movements, Methodist Church--Clergy
Description: In this 1991 interview, student Michael Wilson interviewed Dr. Loy Witherspoon about his life experiences in the North Carolina Piedmont. Dr. Witherspoon describes his unusual childhood, the latter part of which was spent at The Children's Home, a...

Title: Loy H. Witherspoon oral history interview 3, 1993 February 19
Creator: Witherspoon, Loy H., 1930-2017
Date Created: 1993-02-19
Subjects--Topical: Teacher-student relationships, Methodist Church--Clergy, Social change
Description: In this 1993 interview, student Mitch Miles interviewed Dr. Loy Witherspoon, founding chair of Religious Studies at UNC Charlotte, who relates his life story and reflects on changes that he witnessed in the American South between the 1930s and the...

Title: Lucille Harwood oral history interview, 1994 October 8
Creator: Harwood, Lucille, 1921-
Date Created: 1994-10-08
Subjects--Topical: Depressions, Race relations, African Americans--Segregation
Description: 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...

Title: Mary K. Pistole oral history interview, 1993 March 27
Creator: Pistole, Mary K., 1924-2001
Date Created: 1993-03-27
Subjects--Topical: Cities and towns--Growth, Presidents--Death, Women--Employment--Social aspects, Small business, Racism, School integration, Busing for school integration
Description: Mary Pistole recounts her life and experiences in Charlotte during the Great Depression, World War II, and the postwar era. Mrs. Pistole grew up in the Myers Park neighborhood and was an eighth grader at Alexander Graham Junior High School when th...

Title: Thereasea Delerine Elder oral history interview 1, 1993 June 25
Creator: Elder, Thereasea D. Clark (Thereasea Delerine Clark), 1927-2021
Date Created: 1993-06-25
Subjects--Topical: African American nurses, Public health nursing, Health attitudes, Health and race, Discrimination in medical care, Teenage pregnancy, Children--Health and hygiene, Pollution--Health aspects, Voluntarism
Description: Thereasea Elder recounts her life and career as a public health nurse in Charlotte, North Carolina. Before going into public health, Mrs. Elder was a nurse at Good Samaritan Hospital, the region's only hospital for African Americans. She disc...

Title: Thereasea Delerine Elder oral history interview 2, 2001 May 9
Creator: Elder, Thereasea D. Clark (Thereasea Delerine Clark), 1927-2021
Date Created: 2001-05-09
Subjects--Topical: African American nurses, Public health nursing, Health and race, Discrimination in medical care, Household employees, Housing, Race relations, Civil rights movements, Segregation, School integration
Description: Thereasea Elder recounts her and her family's experiences living in Charlotte throughout the twentieth century, as well as her forty-five years as a nurse. Growing up in a segregated Charlotte, she describes life in the close-knit African American...

Title: Tom Snipes oral history interview, 1993 February 25
Creator: Snipes, Walter Thomas, 1932-
Date Created: 1993-02-25
Subjects--Topical: College administrators, College teachers, Universities and colleges--Faculty, Universities and colleges--Curricula, Race relations
Description: Tom Snipes describes his early upbringing in Kannapolis and Raleigh, North Carolina in an autocratic, yet loving home run by his disciplinarian father. He recalls the challenges of growing up during the Depression in a large family with meager res...

Title: Virginia Case oral history interview, 1996 September 10
Creator: Case, Virginia, 1918-
Date Created: 1996-09-10
Subjects--Topical: Depressions, Country life, War--Economic aspects, Women in war, Race relations, Urban renewal
Description: Virginia Case discusses her family and life in Gastonia, North Carolina. Originally from Pickens County, South Carolina, she and her husband moved to Gastonia in the mid-1930s. Mrs. Case describes how difficult life was during the Great Depression...

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