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Olaf Abraham recalls his memories of the Brooklyn neighborhood in Charlotte, North Carolina, also known as Second Ward, and of urban renewal. He describes daily life as a[...]
2007-04-11 | Audio | Student Project on Second Ward |
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Kelly Alexander Jr., son of former NAACP president Kelly Alexander Sr., recounts fond memories of growing up in the Brooklyn neighborhood of Charlotte, North Carolina, al[...]
2007-04-07 | Audio | Student Project on Second Ward |
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Charlotte, North Carolina native Margaret Alexander discusses her fifteen years of memories of living in the Brooklyn neighborhood of Charlotte, also known as Second Ward[...]
2007-04-02 | Audio | Student Project on Second Ward |
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James Black shares his memories of growing up in the Brooklyn neighborhood of Charlotte, North Carolina, also known as Second Ward, and his lifelong involvement with the [...]
2007-03-27 | Audio | Student Project on Second Ward |
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Christine Bowser discusses her memories of the Brooklyn neighborhood of Charlotte, North Carolina, also known as Second Ward. She describes her role as program director o[...]
2007-04-13 | Audio | Student Project on Second Ward |
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Calvin Brown shares his memories of living in Charlotte, North Carolina during a time when segregation was being challenged by civil rights groups. He moved to Charlotte [...]
2007-04-27 | Audio | Student Project on Second Ward |
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Donald G. Bryant discusses his role as the only dissenting voice on the Charlotte City Council (1961-1965) in opposition to Charlotte's urban redevelopment plan. He agree[...]
2004-03-24 | Audio | Student Project on Second Ward |
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Native Charlottean Charles Clyburn shares his memories of spending time in the Brooklyn neighborhood of Charlotte, North Carolina, also known as Second Ward. Topics inclu[...]
2004-04-05 | Audio | Student Project on Second Ward |
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Barbara Crawford shares her memories of living in the Brooklyn neighborhood of Charlotte, North Carolina, also known as Second Ward. She describes some of the homes that [...]
2004-03-27 | Audio | Student Project on Second Ward |
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Price Davis discusses his memories of living in the Cherry neighborhood in Charlotte, North Carolina and visiting the nearby Brooklyn neighborhood, also known as Second W[...]
2004-03-19 | Audio | Student Project on Second Ward |
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Colvin Morgan Edwards shares his memories of the Brooklyn neighborhood of Charlotte, North Carolina, also known as Second Ward. While Mr. Edwards did not live in Brooklyn[...]
2007-03-15 | Audio | Student Project on Second Ward |
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Thereasea Elder shares her memories of the Brooklyn neighborhood of Charlotte, North Carolina, also known as Second Ward, as well as the Greenville neighborhood where she[...]
2004-03-07 | Audio | Student Project on Second Ward |
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In this group interview, Vermelle Diamond Ely, Price Davis, Wright Hunter, Calvin Davis, and Naomi Davis share their memories of the Brooklyn neighborhood in Charlotte, N[...]
2004-03-25 | Audio | Student Project on Second Ward |
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Rosena H. Gaines describes her early life in Charlotte's Brooklyn neighborhood, and her experiences as both a student and a teacher at Second Ward High School. As a stude[...]
2004-03-25 | Audio | Student Project on Second Ward |
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William Harris shares his memories of growing up in the Brooklyn neighborhood in Charlotte, North Carolina, also known as Second Ward. He discusses his career as a princi[...]
2004-05-04 | Audio | Student Project on Second Ward |
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Dr. Vernon Herron shares his memories of growing up near the Brooklyn neighborhood of Charlotte, North Carolina, also known as Second Ward. Mr. Herron describes his educa[...]
2007-03-13 | Audio | Student Project on Second Ward |
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Bettye Golden Holloway shares her memories of the Brooklyn neighborhood, also known as Second Ward, during the 1930s through 1950s in Charlotte, North Carolina. Mrs. Holl[...]
2007-04-26 | Audio | Student Project on Second Ward |
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John L. Holloway recounts his almost forty years as a high school band director and jazz musician in Charlotte, North Carolina. Mr. Holloway describes moving from Durham,[...]
2007-08-27 | Audio | Student Project on Second Ward |
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Charles Jones shares his memories of the Brooklyn neighborhood of Charlotte, North Carolina, also known as Second Ward. He describes the sense of community pride in Brook[...]
2007-04-25 | Audio | Student Project on Second Ward |
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Walter "Buck" Kennedy shares his memories of the Brooklyn neighborhood of Charlotte, North Carolina, also known as Second Ward. Mr. Kennedy describes growing up in the Ch[...]
2004-03-26 | Audio | Student Project on Second Ward |
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Frances H. Leach shares her memories of Charlotte, North Carolina's African American communities. She talks about the Cherry neighborhood where she grew up during the 193[...]
2004-04-02 | Audio | Student Project on Second Ward |
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Doretha Leak recalls living during the mid-twentieth century in the Brooklyn neighborhood in Charlotte, North Carolina, also known as Second Ward. The first part of the i[...]
2004-05-03 | Audio | Student Project on Second Ward |
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Lem Long discusses growing up in Mint Hill, just east of Charlotte, North Carolina, and visiting the Brooklyn neighborhood in Charlotte, also known as Second Ward. Topics[...]
2007-03-15 | Audio | Student Project on Second Ward |
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John McCarroll shares his memories of living in the Brooklyn neighborhood of Charlotte, North Carolina, also known as Second Ward, and his long career working for Grier F[...]
2004-03-17 | Audio | Student Project on Second Ward |
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John Murphy shares his memories of the Brooklyn neighborhood of Charlotte, North Carolina, also known as Second Ward, and his career as a dentist in Charlotte. He describ[...]
2007-04-15 | Audio | Student Project on Second Ward |
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UNC Charlotte graduate students conducted the interviews in this collection in 2004 and 2007 as the centerpiece of a class on "Oral History and Memory" directed by professor Karen Flint. They titled their project and website the "Brooklyn Oral History Project," reflecting the popular local name for Second Ward in uptown Charlotte. Brooklyn, a thriving African American neighborhood from the early to mid-twentieth century, became Charlotte's first urban renewal project. City planners largely demolished Brooklyn's neighborhoods and businesses during the 1960s to make way for a new government center and city park.