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Ann Carver oral history interview 1, 2018 February 22
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Creator
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Carver, Ann C.
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Date Created
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2018-02-22
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Subjects--Topical
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Charlotte Three, African Americans--Education
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Description
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Dr. Ann Carver recounts her formative years, her college experiences, and her career at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte. She discusses how the tragic death of her husband served as a turning point in her life, and how her subsequent ...
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Billy J. Reid oral history interview 2, 2012 December 10
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Creator
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Reid, Billy J. (Billy June), 1931-2022
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Date Created
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2012-12-10
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Subjects--Topical
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Nonprofit organizations, Hispanic Americans--Economic conditions, African Americans--Economic conditions, Low-income single mothers, Dependency (Psychology), Fund raising
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In this interview, Bill J. Reid, Executive Director of Jackson Park Ministries in Charlotte, North Carolina, shares about the history and operations of the organization. He discusses the ministry's campus, explaining its origin as a World War...
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Charles T. Davidson oral history interview, 2018 October 15
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Creator
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Davidson, Charles T. (Charles Tompkins)
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Date Created
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2018-10-15
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Subjects--Topical
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Construction industry, Civil engineering, Structural engineering, Labor unions, Contracts--Government, Business logistics, Corporate culture, Privatization, Business failures, Construction industry--Technological innovations, Religion
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Charles T. "Charlie" Davidson, former president of J.A. Jones Construction Co., discusses his life, his family, the history of J.A. Jones and affiliated companies, and the development of the construction industry, during the half century from the ...
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Dan L. Morrill oral history interview 5, 2012 March 6
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Creator
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Morrill, Dan L.
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Date Created
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2012-03-06
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Subjects--Topical
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Women college presidents, Universities and colleges--Faculty, College students, Public universities and colleges--Administration, African Americans--Civil rights
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Description
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In this interview, Dr. Dan Morrill, long-time history professor and marshall at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte and the Consulting Director of the Charlotte Mecklenburg Historic Landmarks Commission, describes how he came to work at ...
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Diana Travis oral history interview, 2017 February 27
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Creator
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Travis, Diana, 1947-
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Date Created
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2017-02-27
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Subjects--Topical
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Discrimination, Feminism, Gay community, Gay pride parades, LGBTQ+ culture, Homophobia, Lesbians, Lesbian community, Segregation
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Diana Travis discusses her life and activism as a lesbian living in Boston, Massachusetts and Charlotte, North Carolina. She describes her formative years in Charlotte, where her father, Gus Travis, was a popular columnist for the Charlotte Observ...
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Elinor B. Caddell oral history interview, 2017 August 23
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Caddell, Elinor B. (Elinor Brooks), 1922-
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Date Created
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2017-08-23
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Subjects--Topical
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Nursing, Nurses, Nursing--Study and teaching, Nursing schools--Faculty, Nursing schools--Curricula, Medicine, Education--Research
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Description
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Charlotte native, Elinor Caddell, one of the founding faculty members of the UNC Charlotte School of Nursing, recalls her career in nursing education and how the profession has evolved over the years. Ms. Caddell recalls entering the newly created...
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Grier Heights group oral history interview with Hawthorne Broadway, L.C. Clifton, Willie Davis, Marvin Price, and Porgie Wallace, 2014 September 1
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Broadway, Hawthorn, 1937-
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Date Created
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2014-09-01
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Subjects--Topical
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Fishing, Floods, Segregation, Swimming, Swimming pools, Rivers
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Five men, who grew up in the Grier Heights neighborhood in Charlotte, North Carolina during the 1940s and 1950s recall swimming in the local creeks. and specifically in a place that they called the "Big Boy Hole," on Briar Creek behind the Mint Mu...
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Hall, Curley and Laura Rankin oral history interview, 2014 May 27
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Creator
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Hall, Curley
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Date Created
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2014-05-27
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Subjects--Topical
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Baptism, Bus travel, Transportation, Rivers
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Laura Rankin and Curley Hall discuss attending baptismal services while members of the Shiloh Baptist Church on Elmin Street in Reid Park, Charlotte, North Carolina. Curley Hall describes living in the old Brooklyn neighborhood in Charlotte and be...
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Hare, Ron oral history interview, 2014 July 16
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Hare, Ron (Ronald C. Jr.), 1935-
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Date Created
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2014-07-16
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Subjects--Topical
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Floods, Rivers
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Ronald Hare discusses his contributions to a flood mitigation project done by Mecklenburg County, North Carolina. He relates the process by which houses were acquired by the county and then torn down in order to turn the area into an ecological ga...
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Henry Heath oral history interview, 2015 October 17
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Heath, Henry, 1942-
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Date Created
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2015-10-17
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Subjects--Topical
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African Americans--Music, African American families, African American neighborhoods, Gentrification, Urban poor--Social conditions, Segregation in education, Racism, Civil rights movements
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Henry Heath, a native of Charlotte, North Carolina, describes his life and his involvement in the Optimist Park community since 1987. Mr. Heath details his childhood growing up close to Beatties Ford Road, including his education at segregated loc...
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Jack Claiborne oral history interview 2, 2012 March 28
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Creator
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Claiborne, Jack
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Date Created
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2012-03-28
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Subjects--Topical
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Public universities and colleges--Administration, Women college presidents, Education, Higher, Students, Teachers
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In this interview, Jack Claiborne, long-time reporter and editor with The Charlotte Observer and former director of public relations at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte, shares his recollections of Bonnie Cone, Charlotte College'...
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Janice Covington Allison oral history interview 2, 2016 May 14
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Allison, Janice Covington, 1947-2021
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Date Created
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2016-05-14
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Subjects--Topical
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Transphobia, Transgender people--Employment, Transgender people--Identity, Gay bars
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In this second of several interviews, Janice Covington, a transgender woman and political activist in Charlotte, North Carolina, continues to discuss her personal history and reflects on transgender experiences over time in the Carolinas. She desc...
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Joan Tillotson oral history interview, 2016 June 19
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Tillotson, Joan, 1927-
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Date Created
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2016-06-19
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Subjects--Topical
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Physical education teachers, Women physical education teachers, Lesbians, Lesbian college students, Gay community, Lesbian relationships, Aging
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Joan Tillotson recounts her life as a lesbian, her experiences with relationships, and her career as physical education teacher in New York and as a professor at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte. She discusses her formative years in N...
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Larry Mellichamp oral history interview 1, 2014 May 22
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Mellichamp, T. Lawrence (Thomas Lawrence)
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Date Created
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2014-05-22
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Botanical gardens, Botany--Study and teaching, Universities and colleges--Faculty, Carnivorous plants, Education, Higher--Finance, College benefactors
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In this first of two interviews, Dr. Larry Mellichamp, graduate and long-time faculty member at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte, reflects on his time as a student in the 1960s and as a faculty member from the 1970s to 2010s. He trace...
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Linda Lawyer oral history interview 2, 2019 January 24
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Lawyer, Linda A. (Linda Ann), 1947-
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Date Created
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2019-01-02
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Subjects--Topical
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Lesbians, Computer Programming, Gay Community, Lesbians' writings, Sex discrimination in employment, Sex discrimination against women, Women in computer science
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As a lesbian coming of age in the late 1960s and 1970s, Linda Lawyer shares her early experiences with socialization and marginalization in this second of a series of interviews. Growing up in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, she discusses her Catholic u...
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Lynnsy Logue oral history interview 1, 2017 December 28
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Logue, Lynnsy, 1939-
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Date Created
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2017-12-28
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Subjects--Topical
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LGBTQ+ people, Women's rights, Lesbians, Television--Production and direction, Gay activists, Gay rights, LGBTQ+ culture
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In this interview, Lynnsy Logue discusses her experience living in New York City and Charlotte North Carolina as a lesbian woman, her fourteen year career with the Charlotte Observer, and her involvement in various social and political organizatio...
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Lynnsy Logue oral history interview 2, 2018 January 11
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Logue, Lynnsy, 1939-
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Date Created
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2018-01-11
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Subjects--Topical
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LGBTQ+ people, Women's rights, Lesbians, Coming out (Sexual orientation), Gay activists, Gay rights, LGBTQ+ culture
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In this second interview with Lynnsy Logue, she discusses her experience living in both Charlotte and New York City as a lesbian and reflects on the LGBTQ community as a whole. She relates what the gay bar scene was like in Charlotte around the 19...
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Mark Ethridge oral history interview, 2019 May 13
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Creator
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Ethridge, Mark
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Date Created
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2019-05-13
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Subjects--Topical
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Newspapers, Journalism, Mass media, Civil rights, Employee rights, Creative writing, Pulitzer Prizes, Television in religion, Investigative reporting, Byssinosis
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Mark Ethridge, a journalist, novelist, and media entrepreneur, discusses his career, with special attention to his years as a reporter and editor at the Charlotte Observer newspaper, during the 1970s and 1980s. He begins by discussing his first ye...
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Mildred English oral history interview, 2012 September 17
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English, Mildred, 1925-2019
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Date Created
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2012-09-17
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Subjects--Topical
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Women college presidents, Education--Political aspects, Women college administrators, Nontraditional college students, Depressions
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In this interview, Mildred English, Monroe native and long-time employee of Charlotte College and the University of North Carolina at Charlotte, tells of her personal history and shares her first-hand knowledge of Bonnie Cone. She begins by speaki...
