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Title: Ann Carver oral history interview 1, 2018 February 22
Creator: Carver, Ann C.
Date Created: 2018-02-22
Subjects--Topical: Charlotte Three, African Americans--Education
Description: Dr. Ann Carver recounts her formative years, her college experiences, and her career at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte. She discusses how the tragic death of her husband served as a turning point in her life, and how her subsequent ...

Title: David Hunter oral history interview 1, 1996 October 2
Creator: Hunter, David, 1933-
Date Created: 1996-10-02
Subjects--Topical: Civil rights, Discrimination in education, College teachers, College administrators, Educational equalization
Description: Dr. David Hunter discusses his personal experiences with education and his lifelong work as an educator in his hometown of Charlotte, North Carolina. He describes growing up in the African American neighborhood of Cherry, attending segregated scho...

Title: Harold Pulley oral history interview 2, 2012 June 26
Creator: Pulley, Harold
Date Created: 2012-06-26
Subjects--Topical: African Americans--Segregation, Race relations, College students, Universities and colleges--Faculty, United States. Air Force, Military participation--African American, Post-traumatic stress disorder, African American churches, Church controversies
Description: In this second of four interviews, Harold Pulley, UNC Charlotte alumnus, recounts his college and military careers, discussing his time at Livingstone College, Gaston Technical Institute, and UNC Charlotte, as well as in the Navy Reserve and the A...

Title: Harold Pulley oral history interview 3, 2012 July 18
Creator: Pulley, Harold
Date Created: 2012-07-18
Subjects--Topical: Civil rights movement, Peace movements, College students, African American college students--Political activity, African American college students--Attitudes, Universities and colleges--Faculty, Racism in education, Race relations--Education (Higher)
Description: In this third of four interviews, Mr. Harold Pulley discusses his student experience at UNC Charlotte during the late 1960s and his connection to the civil rights movement in North Carolina. He describes Bonnie Cone's manner of speaking and i...

Title: James L. Ross oral history interview 3, 2005 March 22
Creator: Ross, James L., 1934-
Date Created: 2005-03-22
Subjects--Topical: African American neighborhoods, African Americans--Segregation, Segregation in education, Race discrimination, Discrimination in employment, Race relations, Community organization, Group relations training, Civil rights movements
Description: James Ross, a native of Mecklenburg County, discusses his experiences with racial segregation and civil rights activism in Charlotte, North Carolina. Growing up in rural Grier Heights, Mr. Ross attended Billingsville Rosenwald Elementary School an...

Title: Mattie Marshall oral history interview 1, 2015 October 31
Creator: Marshall, Mattie, 1948-
Date Created: 2015-10-31
Subjects--Topical: Community development, Gentrification, Urban renewal, Urban transportation, African American families, African American neighborhoods
Description: In this interview, Mattie Marshall, president of the Historic Washington Heights Neighborhood Association in Charlotte North Carolina, discusses her origins as a sharecropper's daughter in Georgia, her family's migration north to New Yor...

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: Phaedra Holley oral history interview, 2021 July 20
Creator: Holley, Phaedra Berry
Date Created: 2021-07-20
Subjects--Topical: College students, Universities and colleges--Alumni and alumnae, African Americans--Education, School integration
Description: In this interview, Phaedra Holley discusses her time as a student at UNC Charlotte and her life after graduating. [all times approximate]. Growing up in Kinston, North Carolina and attending a private school until high school when local schools in...

Title: T.J. Reddy oral history interview, 2004 June 28
Creator: Reddy, T. J., 1945-
Date Created: 2004-06-28
Subjects--Topical: Education, Higher, African American college students, African American college students--Political activity, African American student movements, Civil rights, Blacks--Race identity, Pan-Africanism, Race relations, Spoken word poetry
Description: Artist and civil rights activist T.J. Reddy discusses his higher educational experiences in Charlotte and his involvement in civil rights activism during the 1960s-1970s. He describes being dissatisfied with attending Johnson C. Smith, then transf...