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Title: Winnifred Street
Creator (Corporate): Charlotte Redevelopment Commission
Date Created: 1960, 1966
Subjects--Topical: Urban renewal, City planning, Municipal government, Community development, Urban, Lost architecture, Dwellings, African American neighborhoods

Title: William U. Harris oral history interview, 2004 May 4
Creator: Harris, William Ussery, 1936-
Date Created: 2004-05-04
Subjects--Topical: African Americans--Segregation, Urban renewal, Segregation in education, Manners and customs, African American neighborhoods, African American school children, African American families, Education
Description: William Harris shares his memories of growing up in the Brooklyn neighborhood in Charlotte, North Carolina, also known as Second Ward. He discusses his career as a principal at Myers Street Elementary School and Biddleville Elementary School, and ...

Title: West Hill Street
Creator (Corporate): Charlotte Redevelopment Commission
Date Created: 1964-02-06
Subjects--Topical: Urban renewal, City planning, Municipal government, Community development, Urban, Lost architecture, African American neighborhoods, Dwellings

Title: Wayne Johnson oral history interview, 2019 January 14
Creator: Johnson, Wayne, 1953-
Date Created: 2019-01-14
Subjects--Topical: Gentrification, African American neighborhoods, School integration, African American families, Mentoring, Rosenwald schools
Description: Wayne Johnson, Charlotte realtor and longtime Grier Heights resident, discusses his deep family roots in Grier Heights, an historic African American neighborhood in Charlotte, North Carolina. Mr. Johnson describes how his maternal great grandfathe...

Title: Walter Dial oral history interview, 2004 May 12
Creator: Dial, Walter, 1931-
Date Created: 2004-05-12
Subjects--Topical: African American neighborhoods, African Americans--Segregation, African Americans--Social conditions, Segregation in education, Racism, Race relations, Student activities, Manners and customs
Description: Walter Dial reminisces about his childhood and youth growing up in Charlotte's Third Ward and attending local segregated schools in the 1930s and 1940s, including Isabella Wyche Elementary and Second Ward High School. Mr. Dial describes the white ...

Title: Walter "Buck" Kennedy oral history interview, 2004 March 26
Creator: Kennedy, Walter, 1940-
Date Created: 2004-03-26
Subjects--Topical: African Americans--Segregation, African American radio stations, African American business enterprises, African American neighborhoods, African American churches, African Americans--Religion, Urban renewal
Description: Walter "Buck" Kennedy shares his memories of the Brooklyn neighborhood of Charlotte, North Carolina, also known as Second Ward. Mr. Kennedy describes growing up in the Cherry neighborhood and attending Second Ward High School. He discusses in deta...

Title: Wade Hampton Ferguson oral history interview, 2016 March 16
Creator: Ferguson, Wade Hampton, III, 1962-
Date Created: 2016-03-16
Subjects--Topical: African American churches, Food security, Race relations, Gentrification, African American neighborhoods, Urban poor--Social conditions
Description: Bishop Wade Ferguson discusses his relationship to the neighborhood of Optimist Park in Charlotte, North Carolina, where he has been the full time minister of the Fifteenth Street Church of God since 2006. Providing background to his role as minis...

Title: Victoria Gaither oral history interview, 2016 March 23
Creator: Gaither, Victoria, 1959-
Date Created: 2016-03-23
Subjects--Topical: Urban transportation--Public opinion, Gentrification, African American neighborhoods, Urban poor--Social conditions
Description: Victoria Gaither, who has lived in the Optimist Park neighborhood in Charlotte, North Carolina since 1990, discusses her life history and her experience of living in Optimist Park. She notes that her immediate neighbors form a cohesive group becau...

Title: Vernon Sawyer oral history interview, 2004 April 19
Creator: Sawyer, Vernon Lupton, 1922-
Date Created: 2004-04-19
Subjects--Topical: Urban renewal, African American neighborhoods, Discrimination in housing, Eminent domain, City planning, Public housing--Resident satisfaction, Race relations
Description: Vernon Sawyer recounts his experiences as the executive director of the Charlotte Redevelopment Commission, which was responsible for Charlotte, North Carolina's urban renewal program in the 1960s and 1970s. Mr. Sawyer talks in detail about urban ...

Title: Vernon M. Herron oral history interview, 2007 March 13
Creator: Herron, Vernon M. (Vernon Mack), 1928-
Date Created: 2007-03-13
Subjects--Topical: African Americans--Segregation, African American churches, African American neighborhoods, African Americans--Religion, African Americans--Education, African American families, African Americans--Housing, Urban renewal
Description: Dr. Vernon Herron shares his memories of growing up near the Brooklyn neighborhood of Charlotte, North Carolina, also known as Second Ward. Mr. Herron describes his education attending Myers Street Elementary and Second Ward High School, where he ...

Title: Vernard Thompson oral history interview, 2006 December 2
Creator: Thompson, Vernard, 1948-
Date Created: 2006-12-02
Subjects--Topical: Racism, Police-community relations, Segregation, African American neighborhoods, African American soldiers--Social conditions, Sports--Social aspects, Urban renewal
Description: Vernard Thompson recounts his early life growing up in Charlotte's Third Ward neighborhood and life in the city's African American community during segregation. He discusses his childhood, his experiences attending segregated schools dur...

Title: Vermelle Ely, Price Davis, and John Funches oral history interview, 2004 June 29
Creator: Ely, Vermelle Diamond
Date Created: 2004-06-29
Subjects--Topical: African Americans--Segregation, African American neighborhoods, Segregation in education, School integration, Students--Social life and customs, Teachers, Race relations, Blacks--Race identity, Urban renewal--Social aspects, Police brutality
Description: Vermelle Ely, Price Davis, and John Funches all attended Second Ward High School in Charlotte, North Carolina, and are all members of the Second Ward High School Alumni Foundation located on Beatties Ford Road in Charlotte. In this interview, Ms. ...

Title: Vermelle Diamond Ely, Price Davis, Wright Hunter, Calvin Davis, and Naomi Davis oral history interview, 2004 March 25
Creator: Ely, Vermelle Diamond
Date Created: 2004-03-25
Subjects--Topical: African Americans--Segregation, African Americans--Education, African American business enterprises, African American neighborhoods, African American families, African American churches, Manners and customs, Amusements, City and town life, Urban renewal, School sports--Social aspects
Description: In this group interview, Vermelle Diamond Ely, Price Davis, Wright Hunter, Calvin Davis, and Naomi Davis share their memories of the Brooklyn neighborhood in Charlotte, North Carolina, also known as Second Ward. The interviewees discuss Second War...

Title: Vera Williams oral history interview, 2015 November 18
Creator: Williams, Vera, 1938-
Date Created: 2015-11-18
Subjects--Topical: African American neighborhoods, After-school programs
Description: In this interview, Vera Williams, a resident of Washington Heights in Charlotte North Carolina, describes the changes that have taken place in the neighborhood since she moved there in 1984, and the issues she sees remaining in the community. Mrs....

Title: United Community Services building site
Creator (Corporate): Charlotte Redevelopment Commission
Date Created: 1963, 1968
Subjects--Topical: Urban renewal, City planning, Municipal government, Community development, Urban, Lost architecture, Buildings--Design and construction, African American neighborhoods
Description: Caption on back: "Foundation stage."

Title: Thereasea Elder oral history interview 3, 2004 March 7
Creator: Elder, Thereasea D. Clark (Thereasea Delerine Clark), 1927-2021
Date Created: 2004-03-07
Subjects--Topical: African Americans--Segregation, African American churches, African American schools, African American neighborhoods, Discrimination in public accommodations, Health facilities, Race relations, Urban renewal, Cities and towns--Growth
Description: Thereasea Elder shares her memories of the Brooklyn neighborhood of Charlotte, North Carolina, also known as Second Ward, as well as the Greenville neighborhood where she grew up. She talks about the United House of Prayer for All People and its r...

Title: Terry Tiamd oral history interview, 2007 April 27
Creator: Tiamd, Terry
Date Created: 2004-05-02
Subjects--Topical: African Americans--Segregation, African Americans--Education, Segregation in education, African American neighborhoods, African American families, African American elementary schools, Segregation in transportation, Youth--Societies and clubs, Civil rights movements, School integration, African Americans--Social conditions, Community organization
Description: Terry Tiamd recalls growing up in the Paw Creek community, which was later annexed by Charlotte, North Carolina, and differences that she perceived before and after desegregation in the 1950s and 1960s. She discusses having to walk a mile to atten...

Title: Southwest view from police station
Creator (Corporate): Charlotte Redevelopment Commission
Date Created: 1960-07
Subjects--Topical: Urban renewal, City planning, Municipal government, Community development, Urban, Lost architecture, African American neighborhoods, Buildings

Title: South Tryon Street, Old Broadway Theatre image 3
Creator (Corporate): Charlotte Redevelopment Commission
Date Created: 1958-11-14
Subjects--Topical: Urban renewal, City planning, Municipal government, Community development, Urban, Lost architecture, Buildings, Motion picture theaters, African American neighborhoods

Title: South Tryon Street, Old Broadway Theatre image 2
Creator (Corporate): Charlotte Redevelopment Commission
Date Created: 1958-11-14
Subjects--Topical: Urban renewal, City planning, Municipal government, Community development, Urban, Lost architecture, Buildings, Motion picture theaters, African American neighborhoods