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In the second of two interviews, Christina Wright talks about her career as oral history coordinator in Special Collections and University Archives at J. Murrey Atkins Library, beginning with her early involvement with the oral history program under Pat Ryckman, whom she met in a graduate history course at UNC Charlotte taught by Dan Morrill, and proceeding to her own more recent efforts to expand SCUA's holdings of oral history interviews with LGBTQ community members and Charlotte drag scene participants. She describes how her own interviewing approach and technique gradually developed from what it was during her early years interviewing Rosenwald School alumni and veteran motorsports drivers and personnel, and how the contributions of women and African Americans to the field of oral history have changed the conventions and possibilities of the form. Wright talks in detail about the numerous people she worked with and interviewed during the course of her career, including Ryckman, Katie McCormick, Robin Brabham, Elizabeth Weinstein, Josh Burford, Sandra Bailey, Nancy Pierce, and Bob Barret. At the conclusion of the interview, Wright speculates about some of the communities in Charlotte to whom future oral history outreach efforts might be fruitfully directed, among them unhoused people and the arts and church communities.

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