Cone, Bonnie E., 1907-2003

Perzel, Edward Spaulding

Charlotte, North Carolina

J. Murrey Atkins Library Special Collections & University Archives, University of North Carolina at Charlotte

1988-04-05

1 audio file (1:03:49) : digital, MP3 + 1 transcript (46 pages : PDF)

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Bonnie Ethel Cone was an 80-year-old woman at the time of interview, which took place in J. Murrey Atkins Library at UNC Charlotte in Charlotte, North Carolina. She was born in Lodge, South Carolina in 1907 and was educated at Coker College and Duke University. She was employed as a teacher, as Director of the Charlotte Center of the University of North Carolina, as President of Charlotte College, and as Acting Chancellor and later Vice Chancellor for Student Affairs at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte.

In this fourteenth of a series of interviews conducted by Dr. Ed Perzel (former Chair of the Department of History and Associate Dean for the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences at UNC Charlotte), Bonnie Cone returns to the topics of the bond issues and tax levy elections to support Charlotte College; site selection for the present campus; selection of an architect for the campus buildings and working on building design; her early interest in teaching and time at Coker College; the Charlotte Industrial Education Center, Mecklenburg College, and Central Piedmont Community College; and the Charlotte College engineering program, supported by Duke University and North Carolina State University. She and Dr. Perzel also discuss Fred Alexander, the NAACP, and attitudes toward integration during the late 1950s, and Ms. Cone reflects on racial tensions on campus in the early 1960s, mentioning students Ben Chavis and T. J. Reddy. She also recalls her relationship with student Harold Pulley, describes various politicians and businessmen who were friends of the college, and concludes by briefly discussing the school colors and mascot.

MP3 access copy created on ingest from WAV preservation master. Interview originally recorded on analog audio cassette and digitized using a Digidesign 003 rack.

College administrators
College presidents

Cone, Bonnie E., 1907-2003
Perzel, Edward Spaulding
Alexander, Frederick Douglas, 1910-1980
Kennedy, W. A. (Woodford Armstrong), 1895-1958
Rowe, Oliver Reagan, 1902-1988
National Association for the Advancement of Colored People

Charlotte College
University of North Carolina at Charlotte
Central Piedmont Community College (Charlotte, N.C.)
Carver College (Charlotte, N.C.)
Odell Associates Inc.

Education, Higher
Education, Higher--Administration
Education, Higher--Finance
Community colleges
Women college presidents
Women community college presidents
Race relations

North Carolina--Charlotte

Interviews
Oral histories

1950-1990

UNC Charlotte Oral History Interviews

Interviews with Bonnie E. Cone

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Harold Pulley oral history interview 2, 2012 June 26, J. Murrey Atkins Library Special Collections and University Archives, University of North Carolina at Charlotte. (https://goldmine.uncc.edu/index/render/object/pid/uncc:2577/parentPID/un...); Harold Pulley oral history interview 3, 2012 July 18, J. Murrey Atkins Library Special Collections and University Archives, University of North Carolina at Charlotte. (https://goldmine.uncc.edu/index/render/object/pid/uncc:2826/parentPID/un...); Harold Pulley oral history interview 4, 2012 August 28, J. Murrey Atkins Library Special Collections and University Archives, University of North Carolina at Charlotte. (https://goldmine.uncc.edu/index/render/object/pid/uncc:2827/parentPID/un...); Mildred English oral history interview, 2012 September 17, J. Murrey Atkins Library Special Collections and University Archives, University of North Carolina at Charlotte. (https://goldmine.uncc.edu/index/render/object/pid/uncc:2575/parentPID/un...); Multiple interviews were conducted with Bonnie Cone by Ed Perzel and others. These and other interviews about Bonnie Cone can be found by using “Bonnie Cone” as a search term.

Bonnie Ethel Cone papers (MS0112), J. Murrey Atkins Library Special Collections and University Archives, University of North Carolina at Charlotte. (https://findingaids.uncc.edu/repositories/4/resources/406); Charlotte College records (UA0034), J. Murrey Atkins Library Special Collections and University Archives, University of North Carolina at Charlotte. (https://findingaids.uncc.edu/repositories/6/resources/76); Charlotte College photographs (UA0065), J. Murrey Atkins Library Special Collections and University Archives, University of North Carolina at Charlotte. Available online at (https://goldmine.uncc.edu/index/render/pid/ua:uapcc); Carver College records (MS0063), J. Murrey Atkins Library Special Collections and University Archives, University of North Carolina at Charlotte. (https://findingaids.uncc.edu/repositories/4/resources/266); Fred D. (Frederick Douglas) Alexander papers (MS0091), J. Murrey Atkins Library Special Collections and University Archives, University of North Carolina at Charlotte. (https://findingaids.uncc.edu/repositories/4/resources/427); T. J. Reddy papers (MS0079), J. Murrey Atkins Library Special Collections and University Archives, University of North Carolina at Charlotte. (https://findingaids.uncc.edu/repositories/4/resources/456)

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