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Peggy Held recounts her time singing in the choir during Billy Graham's crusades in New York City and in Charlotte, North Carolina during the late 1950s. She discusses how her experience with the Graham crusades influenced her family's relocation to Charlotte in the 1970s, and her excitement for Rev. Graham's upcoming crusade in 1996.

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Title
Peggy Held oral history interview, 1996 July 17
Creator
Held, Peggy, 1920-2006, interviewee
Contributor
Sweatt, Jan, interviewer
Date (Text)
1996-07-17
Place of Creation
Charlotte, North Carolina
Publisher
J. Murrey Atkins Library Special Collections and University Archives, University of North Carolina at Charlotte
Extent
1 audio file (0:07:05) : digital, MP3
Biographical/Historical Note
Peggy Held was a 76-year-old woman at the time of interview, which took place in Charlotte, North Carolina. She was born in Brooklyn, New York City in 1920. She earned a BA at Ohio Wesleyan University and was employed in retail with Citibank and Prentice-Hall Publishing.
Other Identifiers
Handle: http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.13093/uncc:7738
System Control No.
MU-HE0018
Subject (Person)
Held, Peggy, 1920-2006
Graham, Billy, 1918-2018
Barrows, Cliff
Subject (Topic)
Choirs (Music)
Revivals
Religious gatherings
Christian life
Geographic Coverage
New York (State)--New York
North Carolina--Charlotte
Subject (Occupation)
Sales personnel
Subject (Date)
1950-2000
Type
Audio
Format
spoken word
Interviews
Oral histories
Language
English
Usage Statement
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Copyright Holder
This material is protected by copyright. Copyright is held by the University of North Carolina at Charlotte.
Record Appears in
Oral History Collections > Levine Museum of the New South > Interviews About Billy Graham
Internet Mime Type
audio/mpeg
Location of Original
J. Murrey Atkins Library Special Collections and University Archives, University of North Carolina at Charlotte
Reproduction Note
MP3 access copy created on ingest from WAV preservation master. Interview originally recorded on analog audio cassette and digitized using a Digidesign 003 rack.
2020-03-18
Condition
Pauses in recording on original tape.

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