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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 i[...]
2001-05-10 | Audio | Civil Rights and Desegregation in Charlotte |
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Kelly Alexander Jr., the son of local, state, and national NAACP leader and local businessman Kelly M. Alexander, Sr. and Margaret Alexander, recounts his active involvem[...]
2001-05-01 | Audio | Civil Rights and Desegregation in Charlotte |
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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 195[...]
2001-04-30 | Audio | Civil Rights and Desegregation in Charlotte |
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Mary Clarke, Charlotte-Mecklenburg NAACP president (1986-1990), describes her experiences working for the NAACP from the 1950s to the 1990s, with attention given to her e[...]
2001-05-11 | Audio | Civil Rights and Desegregation in Charlotte |
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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[...]
2001-10-01 | Audio | Civil Rights and Desegregation in Charlotte |
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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 [...]
2001-05-09 | Audio|Text | Civil Rights and Desegregation in Charlotte |
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James Ferguson, a partner at the first integrated law firm in North Carolina, recounts his life's work fighting for civil rights in the state. His involvement with social[...]
2001-11-28 | Audio | Civil Rights and Desegregation in Charlotte |
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Rev. Dr. Sidney L. Freeman, the longtime minister of the Unitarian Universalist Church of Charlotte (UUCC), recounts his involvement in the city's civil rights movement. [...]
2003-05-21 | Audio | Civil Rights and Desegregation in Charlotte |
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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 Nort[...]
2001-06-11 | Audio | Civil Rights and Desegregation in Charlotte |
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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 sc[...]
2006-08-25 | Audio | Civil Rights and Desegregation in Charlotte |
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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 sc[...]
2006-08-06 | Audio | Civil Rights and Desegregation in Charlotte |
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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 sc[...]
2006-08-11 | Audio | Civil Rights and Desegregation in Charlotte |
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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 sc[...]
2006-09-22 | Audio | Civil Rights and Desegregation in Charlotte |
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Daisy Spears Stroud, a native of Charlotte, recounts her experiences growing up in the First Ward neighborhood and her career in the Charlotte-Mecklenburg school system b[...]
2001-06-20 | Audio | Civil Rights and Desegregation in Charlotte |
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Gerson L. Stroud recounts his experiences as a lifelong resident of Charlotte as well as his thirty-one year career with the Charlotte-Mecklenburg school system where, as[...]
2001-06-20 | Audio | Civil Rights and Desegregation in Charlotte |
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Madelyn Wilson describes her experiences growing up in Charlotte, North Carolina, particularly as a student in the Charlotte-Mecklenburg school system as it underwent the[...]
2002-02-01 | Audio | Civil Rights and Desegregation in Charlotte |