Carver, Ann C.

Wright, Christina

Charlotte, North Carolina

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

2018-02-22

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Dr. Ann Carver was a 77-year-old woman at the time of interview, which took place in J. Murrey Atkins Library at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte. She was born in Hendersonville, North Carolina in 1940. She was educated at Limestone College, the University of Arkansas, and Emory University. Dr. Carver was employed as a professor at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte, Morehouse College, Limestone College, and National Kaohsiung Normal University in Taiwan.

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 doctoral education at Emory University propelled her into a self-taught interdisciplinary study of African-American literature and history. Dr. Carver discusses her first professorial job teaching English at Morehouse College in 1968, and her move to UNC Charlotte in 1969. She describes in detail the ensuing process of establishing the Africana Studies Department at UNC Charlotte in collaboration with Dr. Bertha Maxwell. Other topics include the Charlotte Three and the Wilmington Ten.

MP3 access copy created on ingest from WAV production master file. Interview originally recorded on a Zoom H5 Handy Recorder.

College teachers

Carver, Ann C.
Maxwell, Bertha, 1930-
Colvard, Dean W., 1913-2007
Reddy, T. J., 1945-

Limestone College
University of North Carolina at Charlotte
Emory University
Morehouse College (Atlanta, Ga.)
Johnson C. Smith University

Charlotte Three
African Americans--Education

North Carolina--Charlotte
Georgia--Atlanta

Interviews
Oral histories

1940-2020

UNC Charlotte Oral History Interviews

UNC Charlotte Administration, Faculty, and Staff

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Ann C. Carver papers. J. Murrey Atkins Library Special Collections and University Archives, University of North Carolina at Charlotte. (https://findingaids.uncc.edu/repositories/4/resources/260)

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