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Title: Benjamin Chavis Jr. oral history interview, 2005 February 7
Creator: Chavis, Ben, 1948-
Date Created: 2005-02-07
Subjects--Topical: African American college students, African American college students--Political activity, African American student movements, Chemistry, Civil rights, Civil rights movements, College integration, Race relations, Racism, Segregation, Student movements
Description: Dr. Benjamin Chavis recounts his involvement in the black student movement on the campus of the University of North Carolina at Charlotte during the late 1960s to the early 1970s, when he was one of a small but politically active cohort of African...

Title: Jada Flowers oral history interview, 2020 March 23
Creator: Flowers, Jada
Date Created: 2020-03-23
Subjects--Topical: College students, Black, Police shootings, Protest movements, Racism, School shootings, COVID-19 (Disease)--Social aspects
Description: In this interview, Jada Flowers shares her experience as the Vice President of the Black Student Union at UNC Charlotte. She also discusses her views on racial justice, especially how it may have changed after Keith Lamont Scott was killed by a po...

Title: James Cuthbertson Jr. oral history interview, 2004 July 28
Creator: Cuthbertson, James, 1950-
Date Created: 2004-07-28
Subjects--Topical: African American college students, African American student movements, Civil rights, College integration, Race relations, Racism, School integration, Student unions, Universities and colleges--Social aspects, Greek letter societies, African American Greek letter societies
Description: James Cuthbertson recounts his experiences as one of the few African American students attending the University of North Carolina at Charlotte during the late 1960s to the early 1970s. As a member of the Black Student Union, he discusses how the s...

Title: Jimmie Lee Kirkpatrick and H.D. Kirkpatrick oral history interview 3, 2017 October 23
Creator: Kirkpatrick, Jimmie Lee
Date Created: 2017-10-23
Subjects--Topical: Race relations, Racism, Slavery, Genealogy, Poverty, African Americans--Reparations, Football, Enslavement
Description: In this third of four related interviews,, H.D. Kirkpatrick and Jimmie Lee Kirkpatrick continue to discuss their relationship as it developed after their revelation that their family histories are connected through slavery in Charlotte and Mecklen...

Title: Joshua Shepherd oral history interview, 2019 October 21
Creator: Shepherd, Joshua, 1998-
Date Created: 2019-10-21
Subjects--Topical: College students, Black, Police shootings, Protest movements, African Americans--Social conditions, Racism, Police brutality, Racial profiling in law enforcement
Description: Joshua Shepherd, who at the time of the interview was the President of the 2019-2020 Black Student Union at UNC Charlotte, discusses the protests on campus and in Uptown Charlotte that followed the police shooting of Keith Lamont Scott on Septembe...