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Title: Ed Farthing oral history interview 2021 February 17
Creator: Farthing, Ed, 1947-2022
Date Created: 2021-02-17
Subjects--Topical: Gay pride week, Gay pride celebrations, LGBTQ+ visibility, Transgender community, LGBTQ+ people of color
Description: WARNING: This interview contains homophobic language beginning at [00:04:02] and ending at [00:04:23]. Mr. Ed Farthing discusses his experiences with and involvement in LGBTQ+ pride events and organizations as an openly gay man in the 1990s in Cha...

Title: Paul E. Hemphill oral history interview, 2021 January 7
Creator: Hemphill, Paul E. (Paul Edward)
Date Created: 2021-01-07
Subjects--Topical: College students, Universities and colleges--Alumni and alumnae, African Americans--Education
Description: WARNING: This interview contains discussion of a racial slur being used beginning at 25:06 and ending at 25:26. Paul Hemphill, an alumnus of the University of North Carolina at Charlotte discusses his time as a student from 1968-1971. [All times a...

Title: Jesh Humphrey oral history interview, 2020 April 23
Creator: Humphrey, Jesh, 1979-
Date Created: 2020-04-23
Subjects--Topical: Emergency management--Public opinion, Emergency management, College students, School shootings
Description: James "Jesh" Humphrey, Vice Chancellor of Institutional Integrity and General Counsel at UNC Charlotte, discusses the events of April 30th 2019 and his role in aiding the University's emergency management response and later communication and ...

Title: Jesh Humphrey oral history interview, 2020 April 23
Creator: Humphrey, Jesh, 1979-
Date Created: 2020-04-23
Subjects--Topical: Emergency management--Public opinion, Emergency management, College students, School shootings, Universities and colleges--Administration, Compassion, Campus violence, Universities and colleges--Security measures, Memorials, Collective memory, Communication in crisis management, Freedom of Information Act (United States)
Description: James "Jesh" Humphrey, Vice Chancellor of Institutional Integrity and General Counsel at UNC Charlotte, discusses the events of April 30th 2019 and his role in aiding the University's emergency management response and later communication and ...

Title: Connie Vetter oral history interview, 2018 July 24
Creator: Vetter, Connie J. (Connie June)
Date Created: 2018-07-24
Subjects--Topical: Discrimination in employment--Law and legislation, Gay activists, Gay community, Lesbians--Societies and clubs, Lesbians
Description: Connie Vetter arrived in Charlotte in 1993 as a young graduate from Northeastern University School of Law in Boston. In this interview, Ms. Vetter shares her experiences in Charlotte as a young lesbian in pursuit of law work and female community. ...

Title: Ellen T. Ruff oral history interview 2, Date 2018, April 20
Creator: Ruff, Ellen, T.
Date Created: 2018-04-20
Subjects--Topical: Job hunting, Contracts, Legal assistance to the poor, Nuclear power plants, Trade regulation, Women executives, Women lawyers
Description: In this second of two interviews, Ellen T. Ruff, successful lawyer and Charlotte Duke Energy executive, discusses how she met her husband in law school at UNC Chapel Hill, their relationship, and his background before they met. She also talks abou...

Title: Ellen T. Ruff oral history interview 1, Date 2018 April 18
Creator: Ruff, Ellen T. (Ellen Tarte)
Date Created: 2018-04-18
Subjects--Topical: Stuttering, Public schools, Law schools, Women executives, Women lawyers
Description: In this first of two interviews, Ellen T. Ruff, successful lawyer and Charlotte Duke Energy executive, discusses her earliest childhood memories of her life in rural Connecticut and what she knows about her family's history. Ms. Ruff goes int...

Title: Thomas W. Ross oral history interview, 2015 August 2
Creator: Ross, Thomas W.
Date Created: 2015-08-02
Subjects--Topical: Universities and colleges--Administration, College administrators, Recessions
Description: Thomas W. Ross Sr., President of the University of North Carolina system from 2011 to 2016, discusses the impact of the Great Recession on the UNC system. He focuses on efforts undertaken by Chancellor Philip L. Dubois at the University of North C...

Title: T. LaFontine "Fountain" Odom oral history interview, 2013 March 5
Creator: Odom, Fountain, 1938-
Date Created: 2013-03-05
Subjects--Topical: Doctor of philosophy degree, State bonds, Urban universities and colleges
Description: T. LaFontine (Fountain) Odom Sr. discusses his association with UNC Charlotte, which began when he was a student at Charlotte College. He specifically recalls how Bonnie Cone helped him finish his degree at Charlotte College in 1957 and how she al...

Title: Russell M. Robinson oral history interview, 2013 February 22
Creator: Robinson, Russell M. (Russell Marable), 1932-
Date Created: 2013-02-22
Subjects--Topical: Campus planning, Campus Buildings, Urban universities and colleges, Doctor of philosophy degree, Athletic directors, College trustees
Description: Russell M. Robinson discusses his association with the University of North Carolina at Charlotte, which began when he played a minor role in the land acquisition for the current campus in the early 1960s. Mr. Robinson served as a member of the Uni...

Title: Leslie J. Winner oral history interview, 2013 February 4
Creator: Winner, Leslie J.
Date Created: 2013-02-04
Subjects--Topical: Doctor of philosophy degree, Urban universities and colleges
Description: Leslie Winner, Executive Director of the Z. Smith Reynolds Foundation and former North Carolina State Senator, talks about her association with Chancellor James H. Woodward during her tenure in the North Carolina Senate from 1993-1998. She notes h...

Title: Emil Kratt oral history interview, 2012 March 22
Creator: Kratt, Emil Failing, 1935-
Date Created: 2012-03-22
Subjects--Topical: Deacons, Baptists, Leadership--Philosophy, Women college presidents
Description: In this interview, Emil Kratt, long-time attorney, Charlotte resident, and member of Myers Park Baptist Church in Charlotte, North Carolina, shares his memories of Bonnie Cone. He recalls their shared service on the Board of Deacons of Myers Park ...

Title: Calvin L. Brown oral history interview, 2004 April 27
Creator: Brown, Calvin L. (Calvin Lee), 1935-
Date Created: 2007-04-27
Subjects--Topical: African Americans--Segregation, African American lawyers, Discrimination in public accommodations, Civil rights movements, Urban renewal, African American churches, African American neighborhoods
Description: Calvin Brown shares his memories of living in Charlotte, North Carolina during a time when segregation was being challenged by civil rights groups. He moved to Charlotte in 1961 after completing law school, and discusses representing clients, part...

Title: Charles Jones oral history interview 2, 2007 April 25
Creator: Jones, Charles, 1937-
Date Created: 2007-04-25
Subjects--Topical: African Americans--Segregation, African American business enterprises, African American churches, African American schools, African American neighborhoods, African American families, City and town life, Civil rights movements, Urban renewal
Description: Charles Jones shares his memories of the Brooklyn neighborhood of Charlotte, North Carolina, also known as Second Ward. He describes the sense of community pride in Brooklyn's residents and their close-knit relationships, differences between Charl...

Title: Charles Jones oral history interview 1, 2005 May 18
Creator: Jones, Charles, 1937-
Date Created: 2005-05-18
Subjects--Topical: African Americans--Civil rights, Civil rights workers, Civil rights movements, Civil rights demonstrations, Civil rights--Religious aspects, Racism, Segregation, Nonviolence
Description: J. Charles Jones--civil rights activist, Freedom Rider, and founding member of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC)--recounts his early life growing up in the Carolinas and his involvement in the civil rights movement. A native of ...

Title: Humphrey Cummings oral history interview, 2004 December 14
Creator: Cummings, Humphrey
Date Created: 2004-12-14
Subjects--Topical: African American college students, Student movements, African American college students--Political activity, School integration, African American neighborhoods, Civil rights movements, Civil rights demonstrations, Race relations, Urban renewal
Description: Charlotte attorney Humphrey Cummings shares his memories of his time as an African American student at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte (UNC Charlotte) during the late 1960s and early 1970s. As one out of a class of around thirty blac...

Title: John Lafferty oral history interview, 2004 October 11
Creator: Lafferty, John, 1947-
Date Created: 2004-10-11
Subjects--Topical: Track and field, College sports, Segregation, Student government, Courts, African American college students--Political activity, Race relations, Universities and colleges--Social aspects
Description: John Lafferty recounts his experience attending the University of North Carolina at Charlotte in the late 1960s. A founding member of UNC Charlotte's track and field team, he discusses the team's creation, the camaraderie between the teammates, an...

Title: Johnny C. Taylor Jr. oral history interview 2, 2004 May 12
Creator: Taylor, Johnny C., 1968-
Date Created: 2004-05-12
Subjects--Topical: Lawyers, African Americans--Social conditions, Race discrimination, Voluntarism, African American business enterprises
Description: Johnny C. Taylor Jr. recounts his education and his career as a corporate lawyer. He speaks about discrimination in corporate America he has faced as an African American, and how he has handled it. He also discusses his volunteer work giving back ...

Title: Milton Short oral history interview, 2004 March 22
Creator: Short, Milton, 1919-2011
Date Created: 2004-03-22
Subjects--Topical: Urban renewal, Eminent domain, Political participation, African Americans--Segregation, African Americans--Housing, African American neighborhoods, African American business enterprises
Description: H. Milton Short, Jr. recounts his six terms serving on Charlotte city council (1965-1979) in Charlotte, North Carolina and his involvement with the urban renewal program. He characterizes Charlotte's redevelopment program as very popular among Cha...

Title: Robert Eades oral history interview, 2002 October 20
Creator: Eades, Robert (Robert O.)
Date Created: 2002-10-20
Subjects--Topical: Land use, Rural, Mills and mill-work, Hunting, Fishing, Community development, Urban, Cotton growing, Ponds, Rivers, Camp meetings, County government, Zoning, Animals
Description: Robert Eades discusses the history of the land in Catawba County and Long Island, North Carolina, along with how the area has changed in recent years. Mr. Eades talks about cotton mills, which had closed by the time of interview; cotton farming, n...