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Title: Arthur Williams oral history interview, 2007 March 30
Creator: Williams, Arthur, 1931-
Date Created: 2007-03-30
Subjects--Topical: African Americans--Segregation, African American business enterprises, African American churches, African American families, African American schools, Barbershops, Urban renewal, Amusements
Description: Arthur Williams shares his memories of growing up in the Brooklyn neighborhood in Charlotte, North Carolina, also known as Second Ward. He discusses residents and small businesses in Brooklyn, including his uncle's barbershop, N.G. Edwards Barber,...

Title: Blue Heaven Park cartoon
Creator: Payne, Eugene G., 1919-2010
Date Created: 1969-07-02
Subjects--Topical: Political cartoons, Politics and government--Caricatures and cartoons, Municipal government, Urban parks--Planning, Urban renewal
Description: Topics include: Charlotte and Mecklenburg County politics and government; Blue Heaven (Charlotte, N.C.); Second Ward (Charlotte, N.C.); Public parks; Urban planning

Title: Brooklyn Area blight study
Creator (Corporate): Charlotte-Mecklenburg Planning Commission
Date Created: 1958
Subjects--Topical: Urban renewal, City planning
Description: A statement required by the North Carolina urban redevelopment law

Title: Carson H. Beckwith oral history interview, 2006 December 1
Creator: Beckwith, Carson H. (Carson Hezekiah), 1909-2009
Date Created: 2006-12-01
Subjects--Topical: Beauty operators, Civil rights, Beauty culture--Study and teaching, Beauty culture, Beauty shops, African American businesspeople
Description: In this interview, Carson Beckwith recounts his life and career as a cosmetologist in Charlotte, North Carolina. Mr. Beckwith discusses his upbringing in rural Craven County, North Carolina, his experiences while attending school at the North Caro...

Title: Charlotte Blue Heaven cartoon
Creator: Payne, Eugene G., 1919-2010
Date Created: 1968-11-27
Subjects--Topical: Political cartoons, Politics and government--Caricatures and cartoons, Cities and towns--Politics and government, Parades, Press, Slums
Description: Topics include: Second Ward (Charlotte, N.C.); Blue Heaven (Charlotte, N.C.); News media; Charlotte and Mecklenburg County politics and government; Carrousel Parade

Title: Charlotte urban development cartoon
Creator: Payne, Eugene G., 1919-2010
Date Created: 1968-11-15
Subjects--Topical: Political cartoons, Politics and government--Caricatures and cartoons, Cities and towns--Politics and government, Urban renewal, Parks--Public use
Description: Topics include: Charlotte and Mecklenburg County politics and government; Urban renewal; Second Ward (Charlotte, N.C.); Brooklyn (Charlotte, N.C.)

Title: Closing in Brooklyn
Creator (Corporate): Charlotte Redevelopment Commission
Date Created: 1961
Subjects--Topical: Urban renewal, City planning, Municipal government, Community development, Urban
Description: From left: Vernon Sawyer (Executive Director of Redevelopment Commission, Lee Kinney (property owner), unknown, Tom Creasy (attorney). Caption on note: "Acquisition of land - closing of "first" urban renewal land in Brooklyn."

Title: David Hunter oral history interview 2, 2005 April 14
Creator: Hunter, David, 1933-
Date Created: 2005-04-14
Subjects--Topical: African Americans--Social conditions, Mathematics--Study and teaching, Race relations, Segregation, Segregation in education, African American schools, College integration, Social integration, Education, Civil rights demonstrations
Description: David Lee Hunter chronicles his experiences growing up in Charlotte, North Carolina during segregation in the 1940s and 1950s to later living and working in an integrated society. Mr. Hunter describes working as a teenager during the 1940s at the ...

Title: Dianne Wyche oral history interview, 2007 April 28
Creator: Wyche, F. Dianne (Fannye Dianne), 1945-
Date Created: 2007-04-28
Subjects--Topical: African Americans--Segregation, African American physicians, Race relations, Urban renewal, Youth--Societies and clubs, African Americans--Housing, Medical care, African American families, Middle class African Americans
Description: Dianne Wyche shares her memories of the Brooklyn neighborhood of Charlotte, North Carolina also known as Second Ward. She recalls her father Dr. Rudolph Wyche and his medical practice in Brooklyn, including the types of surgeries he would perform,...

Title: Donna McGee oral history interview, 2001 October 27
Creator: McGee, Donna, 1942-2014
Date Created: 2001-10-27
Subjects--Topical: Families, African American families, Amusements, Gardening, Community gardens, Vegetable gardening, African Americans--Segregation
Description: Native Charlottean Donna Anthony McGee recalls growing up in the Brooklyn neighborhood of Charlotte, North Carolina, also known as Second Ward. She describes her childhood, including walking to school and playing stickball. A resident of the Wilmo...

Title: Gerson L. Stroud oral history interview, 2001 June 20
Creator: Stroud, Gerson L., 1919-2006
Date Created: 2001-06-20
Subjects--Topical: Race relations, Segregation, African Americans--Education, School integration, Busing for school integration, African American school principals, Public school--Administration, African American soldiers--Social conditions
Description: Gerson L. Stroud recounts his experiences as a lifelong resident of Charlotte as well as his thirty-one year career with the Charlotte-Mecklenburg school system where, as principal of West Charlotte High School, he oversaw that school's racial int...

Title: Kelly Alexander Jr. oral history interview 1, 2001 May 1
Creator: Alexander, Kelly M., Jr., 1948-
Date Created: 2001-05-01
Subjects--Topical: Political leadership, African Americans--Segregation, Segregation in education, School integration, Busing for school integration, Race relations, Education, Civil rights movements, Civil rights demonstrations, Cities and towns--Growth
Description: Kelly Alexander Jr., the son of local, state, and national NAACP leader and local businessman Kelly M. Alexander, Sr. and Margaret Alexander, recounts his active involvement in civil rights in Charlotte, North Carolina and the larger community. He...

Title: Like it?
Creator: Payne, Eugene G., 1919-2010
Date Created: 1969-01-30
Subjects--Topical: Political cartoons, Politics and government--Caricatures and cartoons, Parks--Public use, City planning
Description: Topics include: Charlotte City Council; Blue Heaven (Charlotte, N.C.); Urban planning

Title: Maggie Coleman oral history interview, 2015 November 7
Creator: Coleman, Maggie, 1933-
Date Created: 2015-11-07
Subjects--Topical: Transportation, Citizens' associations, Gentrification, Urban renewal
Description: Maggie Coleman served as the secretary, vice president, and president of the Druid Hills Neighborhood Association during the 1980s. Originally from Chester, South Carolina, Mrs. Coleman moved to Charlotte, North Carolina, in 1955 in hopes of bette...

Title: Margaret Alexander oral history interview 1, 2001 April 30
Creator: Alexander, Margaret G. A., 1924-
Date Created: 2001-04-30
Subjects--Topical: African Americans--Segregation, Civil rights movements, African American women civil rights workers, African American women political activists, Segregation in education, School integration, Bombings, Discrimination in public accommodations, Race relations
Description: Margaret Alexander, civil rights activist and wife of civil rights pioneer Kelly Alexander Sr., discusses her involvement in Charlotte's civil rights struggles of the 1950s and 1960s as a member of the Charlotte-Mecklenburg branch of the NAACP. Sh...

Title: Mary Vaughn oral history interview, 2006 November 18
Creator: Vaughn, Mary, 1938-
Date Created: 2006-11-18
Subjects--Topical: African Americans--Drug use, Gentrification, Race discrimination, Segregation, Urban renewal, Working poor
Description: Mary Vaughn describes her experiences growing up in the segregated Charlotte neighborhood of Brooklyn and shares her opinions on social issues at the time of interview. She recalls the poor quality of the homes in her neighborhood and how her fami...

Title: Nathaniel Washington oral history interview, 2006 November 14
Creator: Washington, Nathaniel, 1941-
Date Created: 2006-11-14
Subjects--Topical: Race relations, Race discrimination, Racism in the workplace, Segregation in education, Urban renewal
Description: Nathaniel Washington describes his early life in the Third Ward section of Charlotte, North Carolina. He discusses his experience in segregated schools during the 1950s-1960s, explaining that there were inequalities as black schools were supplied ...

Title: Paul Grier and Calvin Miller oral history interview, 1993 July 2
Creator: Grier, Paul
Date Created: 1993-07-02
Subjects--Topical: Basketball, African American athletes, African Americans--Segregation, School sports, Basketball stories, Basketball teams, Football, Basketball coaches, Discrimination in sports, Youth league basketball, Youth league basketball--Coaching
Description: In this interview, Paul Grier and Calvin Miller talk informally about their memories of basketball in Charlotte, North Carolina starting around the 1950s. Mr. Grier and Mr. Miller, both African Americans, attended segregated schools and mostly pla...

Title: Price Davis oral history interview 1, 2004 May 25
Creator: Davis, Price, 1920-
Date Created: 2004-05-25
Subjects--Topical: African American schools, African American teachers, Segregation in education, Race relations, Race discrimination, Racism, Police brutality, African Americans--Segregation, African Americans--Social conditions, Civil rights movements, Political and social views
Description: Charlotte, North Carolina native Price Davis shares his experiences of growing up and living in Charlotte during segregation. Mr. Davis talks about attending Morgan School and Second Ward High School in the Brooklyn neighborhood in Charlotte, and ...

Title: Redevelopment Commission of Charlotte, North Carolina: 1968-69 annual report
Creator (Corporate): Charlotte Redevelopment Commission
Date Created: 1969
Subjects--Topical: Urban renewal