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Oral History Collections

These collections of oral history interviews are from the holdings of the Department of Special Collections at J. Murrey Atkins Library, UNC Charlotte. The interviews, conducted by UNC Charlotte faculty, students and staff as well as several community organizations, document the history, life, and culture of the Charlotte region from a range of perspectives.

Featured here are the oral history recordings selected for digitization as part of the project Living Charlotte: The Postwar Development of a New South City, which documents many social aspects of postwar Charlotte, including the eras of segregation and desegregation in education, civil rights activism, and other topics.

Narrow by collection:
Belk College Living History (4)
Catawba Lands Conservancy Perspectives on Land Project (57)
Charlotte Hip Hop Oral History Project (3)
Charlotte Jewish Historical Society (13)
Charlotte LGBTQ+ oral histories (83)
Charlotte Medical Community (2)
Charlotte Pride Oral History Project (12)
Charlotte Regional Oral History (88)
Civil Rights Activism on Campus (9)
Civil Rights and Desegregation in Charlotte (16)
Cultivating Common Ground (11)
David Goldfield Student Project on Change in the Charlotte Region (46)
Ed Perzel WSOC Project on Twentieth Century Charlotte (64)
Grier Heights (5)
Historias de Vida: Life Stories from UNC Charlotte (6)
Historic Rosedale Oral History Collection (11)
International House of Metrolina (5)
Interviews about Robert E. Scoggin (4)
Interviews with Bonnie Cone (16)
Interviews with Gail E. Haley (16)
Interviews with Loy H. Witherspoon (10)
Jimmie Lee Kirkpatrick and De Kirkpatrick on the Legacy of Slavery in Mecklenburg County (4)
Keeping Watch: City of Creeks (14)
La Coalición (2)
Levine Museum of the New South (120)
Memories of Bonnie Cone (26)
Mining Memories CLT250 (10)
Motorsports (31)
Native Carolinian Indian Elders (7)
Navigating the Unprecedented: Student Reflections on 2020 and 2021 (28)
Niner Nation Remembers Oral History Project (54)
Open Schools in Charlotte-Mecklenburg (16)
Oral History Collections (0)
Organizing for social justice on campus (6)
Student Project on Second Ward (49)
Student Project on the Charlotte African American Community (27)
Telling Our Stories: Black Alumni (38)
The Era Before Brown v. Board of Education (23)
The Queen's Garden: Oral Histories of the Piedmont Foodshed (38)
UNC Charlotte Administration, Faculty, and Staff (23)
UNC Charlotte Honors College and Charlotte Action Research Project Interviews on Charlotte Neighborhoods (34)
UNC Charlotte Students and Alumni (5)
William T. Jeffers Interviews on UNC Charlotte History (67)
YMCA of Greater Charlotte (16)