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Title: Debbie Warren oral history interview 1, 2016 June 21
Creator: Warren, Debbie (Debbie Carol)
Date Created: 2016-06-21
Subjects--Topical: Faith, Baptists, Sex role, AIDS (Disease)--Religious aspects--Christianity, AIDS (Disease)--Patients--Care, Gay activists, Gay men--Relations with lesbians, Lesbians, Sex discrimination against women, Lesbian clergy
Description: Prior to the 1992 founding of Regional AIDS Interfaith Network (RAIN) in Charlotte, North Carolina, Rev. Debbie Warren dedicated her life to service within the Baptist Church. In this first of three interviews, Rev. Warren discusses her early year...

Title: Ed Williams oral history interview, 2019 March 29
Creator: Williams, Ed, 1942-
Subjects--Topical: Gardening, Vegetable gardening, Community gardens, Volunteers
Description: Ed Williams, former editor of the editorial pages at The Charlotte Observer in Charlotte, North Carolina, discusses his association with the Myers Park Baptist Church community garden. As a long time member of the church Mr. Williams co-founded th...

Title: Emil Kratt oral history interview, 2012 March 22
Creator: Kratt, Emil Failing, 1935-
Date Created: 2012-03-22
Subjects--Topical: Deacons, Baptists, Leadership--Philosophy, Women college presidents
Description: In this interview, Emil Kratt, long-time attorney, Charlotte resident, and member of Myers Park Baptist Church in Charlotte, North Carolina, shares his memories of Bonnie Cone. He recalls their shared service on the Board of Deacons of Myers Park ...

Title: Frances Curry Kerr oral history interview, 2016 December 16
Creator: Kerr, Frances C. (Frances Curry), 1928-
Date Created: 2016-12-16
Subjects--Topical: Lesbians, Gay community, Parents of queer people, Homophobia, Homosexuality--Religious aspects--Baptists
Description: In this interview, Frances C. Kerr recounts her involvement in the process by which Myers Park Baptist Church adopted an LGBTQ affirming policy in 2002, her reasons for wanting to make this policy happen, and how this has changed her life as a chu...

Title: J. Daniel White oral history interview 1, 2018 May 10
Creator: White, J. Daniel
Date Created: 2018-05-10
Subjects--Topical: Religious education--Study and teaching, College teachers, Hinduism--Study and teaching, Race relations, Theology
Description: Dr. J. Daniel White discusses his life and his 47-year tenure as professor of Religious Studies at UNC Charlotte. [All times approximate] [00:00] He begins by tracing the development of his passion for studying Asia and in particular Indian cultur...

Title: Mary Norton Kratt oral history interview, 2012 March 22
Creator: Kratt, Mary Norton
Date Created: 2012-03-22
Subjects--Topical: Women college presidents, Women in higher education, Deacons, Leadership--Philosophy
Description: In this interview, Mary Norton Kratt, award-winning author and adjunct professor at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte, recalls her knowledge of and interactions with Bonnie Cone from her high school years at Central High School when Mi...

Title: Tonda Anne Taylor oral history interview 4, 2015 October 5
Creator: Taylor, Tonda, 1940-
Date Created: 2015-10-05
Subjects--Topical: Coming out (Sexual orientation), Mental health care for LGBTQ+ people, Gay youth, Gay youth--Services for, Homophobia, Nonprofit organizations
Description: In this fourth of four interviews, Tonda Taylor, long-time activist for LGBTQ+ rights and founder of Time Out Youth (TOY) in Charlotte, North Carolina, recalls the beginning stages of TOY. Ms. Taylor discusses her previous psychiatric work with Ch...