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Cleo A. Yongue recounts her thirty-six year career as a nurse for the Mecklenburg County Health Department and her experiences in the Brooklyn community in Charlotte, North Carolina, also known as Second Ward. She describes her work as an African American nurse in the Mecklenburg County Health Department during segregation, which included performing house calls, school visits, and working in maternity and well baby clinics in Brooklyn. Other topics include transportation around Charlotte, integration in the workplace, and how urban renewal affected Brooklyn and Charlotte's African American community.

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Title
Cleo A. Yongue oral history interview, 2004 March 29
Creator
Yongue, Cleo A. (Cleo Alford), 1914-2015, interviewee
Contributor
Dial, Tamara, interviewer
Date (Text)
2004-03-29
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 (53:13) : digital, MP3 + 1 interview log (4 pages : PDF)
Biographical/Historical Note
Cleo A. Yongue was a 90-year-old woman at the time of the interview, which took place in Charlotte, North Carolina. She was born in Darlington, South Carolina in 1914. She graduated with a Certificate in Public Health and was employed as a visiting field nurse for the Charlotte and Mecklenburg County Health Department and a school nurse at Myers Street Elementary and Second Ward High School.
Other Identifiers
Handle: http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.13093/uncc:2700
System Control No.
OH-YO0405
Subject (Person)
Yongue, Cleo A. (Cleo Alford), 1914-2015
Subject (Corporate)
Mecklenburg County (N.C.). Health Department
Subject (Topic)
African Americans--Segregation
African American neighborhoods
Public health nursing
Health education
African Americans--Health and hygiene
Race relations
African Americans--Housing
Urban renewal
Geographic Coverage
North Carolina--Charlotte
North Carolina--Charlotte--Brooklyn
North Carolina--Charlotte--Second Ward
North Carolina--Charlotte--Blue Heaven
Subject (Occupation)
Public health nurses
Nurses
Subject (Date)
1930-2010
Type
Audio
Format
spoken word
Interviews
Oral histories
Language
English
Grant Information
Digitization made possible by funding from the federal Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) under the provisions of the Library Services and Technology Act as administered by the State Library of North Carolina, a division of the Department of Cultural Resources.
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 > Student Project on Second Ward
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. Compact disc held by Atkins Library reformatted using Exact Audio Copy.
2016-11-23

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