Burford, Joshua D., 1974-

Wright, Christina

Charlotte, North Carolina

J. Murrey Atkins Library Special Collections & University Archives, University of North Carolina at Charlotte

2016-05-26

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spoken word

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Joshua Burford was a 42-year-old man at the time of interview, which took place in Charlotte, North Carolina. He was born in Alabama in 1974. He was educated at the University of Alabama and was employed as a Coordinator of Student Development Programming in the Office of Student Involvement and Leadership at the University of Alabama, and as the Assistant Director for Sexual and Gender Diversity at the Multicultural Resource Center at UNC Charlotte. He also acted as a community collaborator in collecting LGBTQ archival documents and artifacts at both the University of Alabama, and at UNC Charlotte.

As a sequel to a previous interview, Joshua Burford, Assistant Director of the Multicultural Resources Center at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte, discusses the progress, success and new efforts in collecting local LGBTQ history for deposit in the university's Special Collections. He reflects on the process of naming the King Henry Brockington Community Archive, and the national attention received when his work collecting and exhibiting a local LGBTQ timeline with the Levine Museum of the New South won the Allan Berube Prize, the highest award for public LGBTQ history efforts. Mr. Burford also details the gaps in documenting local LGBTQ history, including the era of the 1960s and in particular bi, trans and queer histories, and the history of LGBTQ people of color. He describes new efforts, including the Charlotte Queer Oral History Project, which had recently got underway in the community, and a proposed website that could connect LGBTQ history projects throughout the South and the United States in general.

MP3 access copy created on ingest from WAV preservation master. Interview originally recorded on a Zoom H5 Handy Recorder with XY modular mic.

Burford, Joshua D., 1974-

University of North Carolina at Charlotte

College teachers
College administrators
Archives
LGBTQ+ archives
Gay rights
Gay liberation movement
Gay community
Oral history
LGBTQ+ people

North Carolina--Charlotte
Southern States

Interviews
Oral histories

1990-2020

Charlotte LGBTQ+ oral histories

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Joshua D. Burford oral history interview 1, October 2, 2014, J. Murrey Atkins Library Special Collections and University Archives, University of North Carolina at Charlotte, (https://goldmine.uncc.edu/islandora/object/uncc%3A2359); Joshua D. Burford oral history interview 2, March 13, 2016, J. Murrey Atkins Library Special Collections and University Archives, University of North Carolina at Charlotte, (https://goldmine.uncc.edu/islandora/object/uncc%3A2356); Joshua D. Burford oral history interview 4, 2017 December 28, J. Murrey Atkins Library Special Collections and University Archives, University of North Carolina at Charlotte, (https://goldmine.uncc.edu/islandora/object/uncc%3A2339).

Josh Burford papers concerning the Charlotte LGBTQ+ Community, J. Murrey Atkins Library Special Collections and University Archives, University of North Carolina at Charlotte, (https://findingaids.uncc.edu/repositories/4/resources/1435).

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http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.13093/uncc:2330