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Vanessa Baxter describes her experiences as a student in Charlotte-Mecklenburg schools from 1959 through the early 1970s, focusing in particular on the impact of integrat[...]
2004-12-21 | Audio | The Era Before Brown v. Board of Education |
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Calvin and Naomi Davis describe their experiences as students, teachers, parents, and grandparents in the Charlotte-Mecklenburg school system, and reflect on the signific[...]
2004-11-23 | Audio | The Era Before Brown v. Board of Education |
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Charlotte, North Carolina native Price Davis shares his experiences of growing up and living in Charlotte during segregation. Mr. Davis talks about attending Morgan Schoo[...]
2004-05-25 | Audio | The Era Before Brown v. Board of Education |
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Lillie Dial describes her educational experiences, including attending Pineville Colored High School in Pineville, North Carolina beginning in 1937 and attending Barber-S[...]
2004-04-19 | Audio | The Era Before Brown v. Board of Education |
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Walter Dial reminisces about his childhood and youth growing up in Charlotte's Third Ward and attending local segregated schools in the 1930s and 1940s, including Isabell[...]
2004-05-12 | Audio | The Era Before Brown v. Board of Education |
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Vermelle Ely, Price Davis, and John Funches all attended Second Ward High School in Charlotte, North Carolina, and are all members of the Second Ward High School Alumni F[...]
2004-06-29 | Audio | The Era Before Brown v. Board of Education |
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James Gaither discusses growing up in the rural Hemphill Heights community in Charlotte, North Carolina and his education at Rockwell Rosenwald School. He recounts living[...]
2004-02-24 | Audio | The Era Before Brown v. Board of Education |
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In this first of two interviews, Mecklenburg County natives Janet Gamble and Delores Crowder discuss their private family lives, the Derita neighborhood in Charlotte, and[...]
2004-01-12 | Audio | The Era Before Brown v. Board of Education |
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In this second of two interviews, Mecklenburg County natives Janet Gamble and Delores Crowder discuss their private family lives, the Derita neighborhood in Charlotte, an[...]
2004-02-23 | Audio | The Era Before Brown v. Board of Education |
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Carrie Graves describes her experience growing up in Cherry, a predominantly African American neighborhood in Charlotte, North Carolina, and her education at the segregat[...]
2005-04-20 | Audio | The Era Before Brown v. Board of Education |
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Irene Elizabeth Hunt describes her early life growing up in Gaffney, South Carolina during the early twentieth century and the great importance of education to her family[...]
2004-02-13 | Audio | The Era Before Brown v. Board of Education |
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David Lee Hunter chronicles his experiences growing up in Charlotte, North Carolina during segregation in the 1940s and 1950s to later living and working in an integrated[...]
2005-04-14 | Audio | The Era Before Brown v. Board of Education |
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J. Charles Jones--civil rights activist, Freedom Rider, and founding member of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC)--recounts his early life growing up in[...]
2005-05-18 | Audio | The Era Before Brown v. Board of Education |
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Mable Latimer reflects on her experiences at West Charlotte High School, both as a student during the late 1940s and early 1950s, and after coming back to the school as a[...]
2005-04-18 | Audio | The Era Before Brown v. Board of Education |
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Elaine Lynch discusses her home and family life while growing up in Charlotte, North Carolina during the 1940s and 1950s. She recounts attending York Road High School and[...]
2004-04-27 | Audio | The Era Before Brown v. Board of Education |
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Connie Patton shares his memories of his family, school life, and the Brooklyn neighborbood in Charlotte where he grew up during the 1930s and 1940s. Mr. Patton describes[...]
2005-05-02 | Audio | The Era Before Brown v. Board of Education |
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Geraldine Powe discusses her education in segregated schools in Charlotte, North Carolina. She talks about positive relationships between parents and teachers; living bri[...]
2005-03-20 | Audio | The Era Before Brown v. Board of Education |
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Dr. Cynthia Roddey describes her education in Rock Hill, South Carolina and Charlotte, North Carolina and her experiences as a teacher after graduation. She attended segr[...]
2004-05-17 | Audio | The Era Before Brown v. Board of Education |
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James Ross, a native of Mecklenburg County, discusses his experiences with racial segregation and civil rights activism in Charlotte, North Carolina. Growing up in rural [...]
2005-03-22 | Audio | The Era Before Brown v. Board of Education |
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Freddie and Christine Sanders reflect on what it was like to be students at the all-black Second Ward High School in Charlotte's Brooklyn neighborhood during segregation [...]
2005-02-01 | Audio | The Era Before Brown v. Board of Education |
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Daisy Spears Stroud describes her life and experiences as an educator in the Charlotte Mecklenburg school system. Mrs. Stroud's teaching career spanned the transition fro[...]
2005-02-03 | Audio | The Era Before Brown v. Board of Education |
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In this first interview, Elizabeth Weinstein recounts her childhood growing up in Derita (now a neighborhood in Charlotte) North Carolina and attending Rockwell Rosenwald[...]
2004-04-08 | Audio | The Era Before Brown v. Board of Education |
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In this second interview, Elizabeth Weinstein discusses her childhood growing up in Derita (now a neighborhood in Charlotte), North Carolina and her career as an educator[...]
2004-04-09 | Audio | The Era Before Brown v. Board of Education |