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Telling Our Stories: Black Alumni Oral History Project
Collection
Identifier: OH-BL
Overview
The Black Alumni oral history project documents UNC Charlotte's Black Alumni by collecting first-hand accounts of the lives of Black students over the decades. This alumni-driven project was inspired by interviews we have already gathered, notably that of James Cuthbertson, Jr., who was a member of the Black Student Union in the late 1960s and early 1970s.
Dates:
2020 - 2021
Catawba Lands Conservancy: Perspectives on Land oral history project
Collection
Identifier: OH-PL
Overview
Perspectives on Land was a pioneering initiative that aimed to document the human face of land conservation issues in the Catawba River basin. It was sponsored by the Catawba Lands Conservancy and the Land Trust for Central North Carolina. The interviews explore what land means to people in North Carolina’s Southern Piedmont, how their identities were shaped by the places they live, and how they hope their landscape will look in the future. The "Perspectives On Land" team worked with residents...
Dates:
2001 - 2004
Charlotte Jewish Historical Society collection
Collection
Identifier: OH-JC
Overview
The Charlotte Jewish Historical Society, a project of the Carolina Agency for Jewish Education, collected these interviews, which are part of a much larger collection. The interviews feature prominent members of Charlotte's Jewish community who discuss the Jewish experience in the Queen City and chronicle the many changes they've seen throughout the twentieth century.
Dates:
1989 - 2000
Charlotte Regional Oral History collection
Collection
Identifier: OH-LI
Overview
This collection represents a wide-ranging mix of interviews that were conducted between the 1970s and the early 2000s to document many aspects of life and culture in the Charlotte region. Interviewees include prominent individuals from the Charlotte area such as journalists, business leaders, and activists, as well as many ordinary citizens representing different sectors of Charlotte society during the twentieth century.
Dates:
1965 - 2013
Civil rights and desegregation in Charlotte oral history collection
Collection
Identifier: OH-CR
Overview
The Civil Rights and Desegregation in Charlotte oral history collection is a grouping of interviews that were conducted by UNC Charlotte Atkins Library Special Collections staff with activists for civil rights in the Charlotte area. The interviewees include prominent local members of the NAACP, as well as a high school principal, a civil rights lawyer, and a church minister.
Dates:
2001 - 2006
Cultivating Common Ground community garden project
Collection
Identifier: OH-CG
Scope and Contents
For the Cultivating Common Ground project, middle and high school youth from the Wilmore neighborhood in Charlotte, NC, interviewed the senior citizens who work in their neighborhood's community garden. The teens documented the seniors' life stories and their
interest in gardening on video and audio and also through photography.
Dates:
2001 - 2002
Era before Brown vs. Board of Education oral history collection
Collection
Identifier: OH-BB
Overview
The interviews focus on the educational experiences of members of the African American community of Charlotte during the era of segregation. Many interviewees also discuss how things changed once segregation ended and their children’s school experiences.
Dates:
2004 - 2005
David Goldfield student oral history project on change in the Charlotte region
Collection
Identifier: OH-GF
Overview
The interviews in this collection chronicle the significant changes that occurred in the Charlotte region from the 1930s to the beginning of the 21st century and were conducted by students in Dr. David Goldfield's history classes between 1990 and 2006.
Dates:
1986-2009
Gail Haley Oral History Interviews
Collection
Identifier: OH-GH
Overview
In this series of sixteen interviews, Gail E. Haley, a prolific author born in Charlotte, North Carolina and the first of only two authors to win the American Caldecott Medal and the British Kate Greenaway Medal for picture book illustration, discusses her life and career as a children’s author and illustrator. Throughout the interviews, Ms. Haley describes her artistic process, detailing her inspirations and research as well as techniques she employed and pioneered in order to illustrate her...
Dates:
2005 - 2009
Interviews from the Southern Oral History Program concerning Belmont (Charlotte, N.C.)
Collection
Identifier: MS0599
Overview
Interviews conducted for UNC-Chapel Hill's Southern Oral History Program that document the changing nature of the Belmont neighborhood of Charlotte, particularly in light of the destruction of the Piedmont Courts Housing Project in 2006 and the lack of affordable housing in the area.
Dates:
2006-2007
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- Oral histories 18
- Interviews (Sound recordings) 17
- Cassette tapes 3
- Community development, Urban -- North Carolina -- Charlotte 3
- African Americans -- Education 2
- African Americans -- Segregation 2
- African Americans -- Segregation -- North Carolina -- Charlotte 2
- African Americans -- Social conditions 2
- Charlotte (N.C.) -- Personal narratives 2
- Charlotte (N.C.) -- Personal narratives -- 20th century 2
- Neighborhoods -- North Carolina -- Charlotte 2
- Segregation in education -- North Carolina 2
- Urban renewal -- North Carolina -- Charlotte 2
- African American college students 1
- African Americans -- Civil rights -- North Carolina 1
- African Americans -- Education -- North Carolina -- Charlotte -- History -- 20th century 1
- Agriculture 1
- Authors, American -- North Carolina 1
- Brooklyn (Charlotte, N.C.) -- History 1
- CDs 1
- Catawba Indian Reservation (S.C.) 1
- Catawba Indians -- South Carolina -- Interviews 1
- Catawba River (N.C. and S.C.) -- Environmental conditions 1
- Catawba River Valley (N.C. and S.C.) 1
- Charlotte (N.C.) 1
- Charlotte (N.C.) -- Race relations 1
- Charlotte (N.C.) -- Race relations -- History -- 20th century 1
- Cherokee Indian -- North Carolina -- Interviews 1
- Children's literature 1
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- Druid Hills (Charlotte, N.C.) 1
- Education -- North Carolina 1
- Gardening -- Charlotte (N.C.) 1
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- Gaston County (N.C.) -- Personal narratives 1
- Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Personal narratives 1
- Jews -- North Carolina 1
- Jews -- Social life and customs 1
- Judaism -- Customs and practices 1
- Land use -- Planning 1
- Lumbee Indians -- North Carolina -- Interviews 1
- Lumbee Tribe of North Carolina 1
- Mecklenburg County (N.C.) -- Race relations 1
- Motorsports -- North Carolina 1
- Occaneechi Indians 1
- Older people -- North Carolina -- Charlotte 1
- Older people. 1
- Open plan schools -- North Carolina -- Charlotte 1
- Optimist Park (Charlotte, N.C.) 1
- Pembroke (N.C.) 1
- Piedmont Region (N.C.) 1
- Race discrimination 1
- Race discrimination -- North Carolina -- Charlotte 1
- Race relations -- North Carolina -- Charlotte 1
- Racism -- South Carolina 1
- Racism in education 1
- Robeson County (N.C.) -- Social life and customs 1
- Schools -- North Carolina -- Charlotte 1
- Slavery -- North Carolina -- Mecklenburg County 1
- Southern States -- Race relations 1
- Statesville (N.C.) -- History 1
- Stock car drivers 1
- Stock car racing -- United States 1
- Universities and colleges -- Alumni and alumnae 1
- VHS tapes 1
- Videorecordings 1
- Washington Heights (Charlotte, N.C.) 1
- Water use -- North Carolina -- Charlotte 1
- White supremacy movements -- South Carolina 1
- Wilmore (Charlotte, N.C.) 1
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- Catawba Lands Conservancy 1
- Cone, Bonnie E. , 1907-2003 1
- Davis, Boyd H. 1
- Haley, Gail E. 1
- Irwin Avenue Open School (Charlotte, N.C.) 1
- Land Trust for Central North Carolina 1
- Levine Museum of the New South 1
- Newsom, Mary 1
- Piedmont Junior High School (Charlotte, N.C.) 1
- Scoggin, Robert E. (Robert Echols) 1
- Southern Oral History Program 1
- University of North Carolina at Charlotte 1
- University of North Carolina at Charlotte -- Students 1
- University of North Carolina at Charlotte--History 1
- University of North Carolina at Charlotte. Black Student Union 1
- University of North Carolina at Charlotte. Dept. of English 1
- University of North Carolina at Charlotte. Urban Institute 1
- West Charlotte High School (Charlotte, N.C.) 1
- Woodward, James H. (University chancellor) 1 ∧ less
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